Argentine Olympic advert calls Falklands "Argentine soil"

[Martinus]

Uhm. Malta has over 400 thousand residents. 

Wrong Malta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta

That's not Malta. They are not even resident in Malta. And they do not have a territory. You fail.

[Martinus]

What do you recommend then Mart? Each country only gets the piece of land on which its capital is based then can only bid for other islands or territories within 500 miles of its coastline or borders?

Well, there is no hard and fast rule, but it's one of these "I know it when I see it" cases. I think a situation in which one country holds sovereignty over an isolated and very small piece of land located just off the border/shore of another country is extremely bizarre.

[The Brain]

Poland is a lot closer to Russia than the Falklands are to Argentina.

[The Brain]

I hope next time the Brits lob a few fusion bombs on the Argies. Shut them up a bit.

[Sheilbh]

Well, there is no hard and fast rule, but it's one of these "I know it when I see it" cases. I think a situation in which one country holds sovereignty over an isolated and very small piece of land located just off the border/shore of another country is extremely bizarre.

They're not that close, it's 300 miles away, not Tierra del Fuego.  I mean the Canaries, to use your earlier example, are closer to Morocco.

[PDH]

I hope next time the Brits lob a few fusion bombs on the Argies. Shut them up a bit.

That's your solution for everything.

[PDH]

They're not that close, it's 300 miles away, not Tierra del Fuego.  I mean the Canaries, to use your earlier example, are closer to Morocco.

It seems a lot closer on the map, like a quarter inch or so.

[Syt]

They're not that close, it's 300 miles away, not Tierra del Fuego.  I mean the Canaries, to use your earlier example, are closer to Morocco.

Or Rhodes (and countless other Greek isles) to Turkey.

[barkdreg]

Give the Falklands to Argentina. It's a nice precedent for when the Germans reclaim some of that territory to the east.

[Syt]

Give the Falklands to Argentina. It's a nice precedent for when the Germans reclaim some of that territory to the east.

Except that Germany renounced all such claims.

[PDH]

They could renounce their renouncement.

[HVC]

Give the Falklands to Argentina. It's a nice precedent for when the Germans reclaim some of that territory to the east.

Except that Germany renounced all such claims.

Hey, if you can renounce them you unrenounce them. nounce, re-renounce... whatever you can get them back

[The Brain]

They're not that close, it's 300 miles away, not Tierra del Fuego.  I mean the Canaries, to use your earlier example, are closer to Morocco.

Or Rhodes (and countless other Greek isles) to Turkey.

No man is an island.

[Barrister]

You'd think the Argies would try a " you win more friends with honey" approach, if they were serious about getting the islands.  Immediately open up access to the Islands, try and be a good neighbour, then in a few years offer a deal somewhat similar to what Hong Kong got - substantial self-rule, guarantees about the English language, allow dual citizenship.  There would be substantial benefits to Falklanders to being tied more closely to South America, and the UK itself would love to give up the cost of defending the Islands.

But of course the Argies aren't serious...

[derspiess]

You'd think the Argies would try a " you win more friends with honey" approach, if they were serious about getting the islands.  Immediately open up access to the Islands, try and be a good neighbour, then in a few years offer a deal somewhat similar to what Hong Kong got - substantial self-rule, guarantees about the English language, allow dual citizenship.  There would be substantial benefits to Falklanders to being tied more closely to South America, and the UK itself would love to give up the cost of defending the Islands.

But of course the Argies aren't serious...

I think many Argies would favor that approach.  The problem is their bitch president and all the idiots who voted for her.

Every time I think Argentina can't get any worse, it does.  They just nationalized YPF.  WTF.