Goes well beyond those, tho

Australians demonstrating their abilty to be incredibly unreasonable in fighting them, but also incredibly reasonable in giving up.

The Baked Bean War.

I was there, and I remember.

Lucky. I got the Turbot War

I feel like that’s justified though. Both sides were out in the middle of fuck all squabbling over a rock with a handful of people on it, very few civilian casualties, low stakes for both countries (well ok, maybe not for the specific governments, but neither side had to worry about being invaded anywhere that really mattered to them). Compared to something like the Ukraine war, it’s more of a skirmish.

EDIT: to be clear, I do not want the Falkland’s to be “my war”, it was a stupid war.

Consumption, sir! I first served in Easy Company, in the 101st Mushroom Regiment in Amsterdam back around 2015. It changed me.

Redeployed to push back the creeping evils of Marihuana and LSD domestically, but no matter how much I consume, I seem unable to make a dent in their availability to these craven loons and their insatiable and dark appetites.

I’ve grown very concerned lately about the effects of DMT. I’m hoping to volunteer soon to try to collect as much as I can find and ingest here locally, before it falls into the hands of a drug user.

Mm, I’d dispute that we developed technology only as a result of war. Humans are naturally curious. We would develop technology no matter what

But it is true that the trajectory would be different, and there’s be differences in investment levels as well, but that’s more of a symptom of what our societies value

“I’m just here to make friends!”

Allow me to say upfront that my upcoming example is gross extreme hyperbole, but I sort of feel like that’s saying sex is wonderful and feels good and that’s why people are drawn to rape. I do understand your point, but like, there are other ways to bond than institutionalized bloodshedding?

Y’all ever heard of fishing?

Well it’s one of the main contributing factors to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and their continuing shortage of raw materials that essentially trapped them into an inevitable conflict with the western powers so it’s important reading if you want to understand the wider Asia-pacific conflicts of the 20th century.

It has something to do with some popular Argentinian cowboy that was governor of the Falklands for a while a long time ago

What the people that actually live in the Falklands want is obviously ignored by the “historical sentiment is more important than what living people want” crowd.

Navy seal copypasta style

What the fuck did you just fucking say about Argentina’s claim to the Falklands, you little shit? I’ll have you know sovereignty passed from Spain to Argentina at independence in 1816 under uti possidetis juris, and Argentina formally claimed the islands in 1820, followed by confirmation and effective occupation from 1826 to 1833. You are nothing to me but another loudmouth denying that history. I will wipe out your arguments with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can toss around “self-determination” like it overrides territorial integrity? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am lining up decades of Argentine protests — 1833, 1841, 1849, 1884, 1888, 1908, 1927, 1933, 1946 and every UN complaint thereafter — and your weak rebuttals are being traced and exposed, so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that buries the myth that British de facto rule since 1833 was anything but an illegal act of force. You’re intellectually dead, kid. I can be anywhere in the argument, anytime, and I can dismantle your “transplanted population” claim in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just by citing principle: the islanders are a transplanted population of British character and nationality, not a separate people under external self-determination doctrine, and thus that doctrine does not apply here. Not only am I extensively trained in international law rhetoric, but I have access to the entire arsenal of historical facts — uti possidetis, effective occupation, the continental-shelf argument from the 1958 Convention — and I will use them to their full extent to wipe your miserable case off the face of the debate, you little bitch. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” dismissal of Argentina’s legal and historical claims was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over your shaky precedent and you will drown in it. You’re fucking argued out, kiddo.

Jokes aside, Argentina has had a claim on it for ages and we’re slowly gaining influence for a long time until they decided to invade and actually take it. They though the Brits wouldn’t care about a rock on the other side of the world but turns out Thatcher needed a win and got everyone riled up.

Nobody cared until Argentina invaded but now majority of the population is British military and British workers that support the military and whatnot. It was won with British blood that’s still in living memory so no way people are giving it up to Argentina.

If Argentina would have just slowly settled the island, support it, have the government do a referendum about unifying with Argentina it would have probably worked but instead they just have the claim.

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