• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Reason for this was the region was and is settled by British sailors. Most of the people are of British descent, people speak English etc. At the end of the day, they are tiny islands with 3k people living on them. They are a great source of saber rattling by Argentina and nothing more.

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      2 months ago

      A great source of oil now it seems. Hence the renewed saber rattling.