Imagine downvoting that by being so used to thinking “Britain and Thatcher bad” that you “forget” that Argentina picked that fight because they were ruled by a fascist junta.
Or they could be ignorant of history and assume that the UK stole The Falklands from native people simply. I don’t really blame people for that becaise Great Britain did that a lot, they’re just innocent this time around
For those unaware, The Falklands were actually uninhabited by the time Great Britain colonized it. The only recorded settlers of the islands before that was a group of pirates that used them as a base. They ended up disrupting so much shipping that the US navy came in and wiped them out 50-100 years before Great Britain claimed the islands.
And now she’s famous for a pointless war.
And a variety of things on top of that
Tbf, Argentina started it
Imagine downvoting that by being so used to thinking “Britain and Thatcher bad” that you “forget” that Argentina picked that fight because they were ruled by a fascist junta.
Or they could be ignorant of history and assume that the UK stole The Falklands from native people simply. I don’t really blame people for that becaise Great Britain did that a lot, they’re just innocent this time around
For those unaware, The Falklands were actually uninhabited by the time Great Britain colonized it. The only recorded settlers of the islands before that was a group of pirates that used them as a base. They ended up disrupting so much shipping that the US navy came in and wiped them out 50-100 years before Great Britain claimed the islands.