In reply to Pekkie:
> Would it actually make any difference if the islands reverted to Argentina tomorrow? Argentina is now a democracy and a member of the G20 and other international groupings so would be likely to let things go on as before. A bit like China and Hong Kong only more so. It won't happen, of course, but....
Yes, it would.
Argentina is a European colonial / empire that is enforcing it's rules over the indigenous people of South America, and seeking to further impose it's colonial rules on some other non-native people against their wishes.
If Argentina was run by native South Americans, not Spaniards then they might have a point. But the ruling class in Argentina are not South Americans, they are foreign invaders, Their native language is Spanish, and a significant percentage of them view themselves as Spanish.
They are one of the founding members of the Organisation of Ibero-American States, the seat of which is in Madrid, in Spain.
They aren't South Americans, and they are proud of that fact...
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