the islands were french and british first actually.  and spain bought the french rights and the islands spanish name comes from the french name. the british claim was never given up.

on top of that spain didnt even recognize the argentinian independence and the islands were not controlled by argentina at its time of independence, a revolting colony cant inherit other claims and spain never ceded rights of the island (which they didnt even have any more after agreements with the british) even when it recognized argentina.  

Just out of curiosity: Is that what they (officially?) teach you in Argentina, or some rogue teacher told you so, or are you smoking something you shouldn't?

The Falklands should be able to self govern independently: free from UK/Western Imperialism and free from Nationalistic Argentina.

I'm not Argentinian!

Good point. Because that's all this is about actually. You ask that out of the presumption of those who think that the "otherness" is wrong, is alien, is what has been added to the "our" world. But you got it right... that's not what we are told to believe... that's how we perceive the world... In latin America and in other ex colonies too. In what you call the 3rd world or the underdevelopt world... we are pretty sure we still live in a colonialist world, in which countries are free and self dependent only nominally, cause corporations and whealthy countries decide our futures, because knowledge, technology and power have been unequally assigned. Funny how not sharing the discourse you have been told (and that you reproduce) makes automatically a "smoker" out of me.

Edit: I have never consumed illegal substances. Our countries produce for the developt countries. Yet the capital involved and the utilities are foreign, they come out of the very same countries that consume our cocaine and marihuana.

Shut up and stop complaining, we own you now.

I find it funny that they only start complaining about the Falklands being theirs when oil is discovered. If the vast majority of people who live on the islands want to live under UK rule then I think that is the decider. The war has already been fought and it's too late now.

By hook or crook, its the United Kingdom's. As an American, I will always support their right to the island. Argentina simply wants something they cannot have to benefit their faltering and failing economy.

If you accept the Argentinian claims on the islands, then countless other territorial claims would have to be revisited - since this absurd claim would of been validated.

Thing is the Falkland Islanders overwhelming want to remain British. Kind of like the Gibraltans.

I didn't talk about other countries so its pointless to bring them up. And honestly, the only reason i think those countries recognized South Ossetia/Abkhasia is cuz they wanna counter and parry the westerners, not because they think its right. And the reason NATO didn't do anything is because they aren't that stupid to attack Russia over something so ''insignificant'' to them. Russian Army is no Taliban or Iraqi or Serbian Army. Although even against Serbia NATO used some pretty bitch moves, when they couldn't bring high enough casualties to serbian army, they started bombing bridges, hospitals, trains, buildings, TV stations, chinese embassies etc etc so that the people would put pressure on milosevic and make him retreat his troops from kosovo.

And yes, Kosovars have a right to decide their future, but they don't have the right to steal lands, take away territory and trum over a country 's sovereignty. Go educate yourself on UN Resolution 1244. I can just as easily declare the street where i live in and independent country seceding from Germany...and i should be given an international recognition, no?

Also, as much as you might find this hard to believe, Kosovo was MUCH MUCH MUCH better place to live in under Serbian rule than it is today. Today its just a disputed shithole whos only economic and financial health rely on drug trafficking and prostitution. Hell 1/3 of Kosovo ''leaders'' have been in some way associated with drugs.

But the thing is, neither Venezuela, Nicuragua nor Russia have been taking away and conquering so much foreign land and destroying its natives people sovereignty over it like the British did, in fact, no country did, so the British really should be the last people people should even consider asking in these types of issues.    

I don't why it pointless bringing up other similar situations just because you didn't mention them. I was very young when the Kosovo thing was happening so no, I'm not very familiar with the intricate details, although I think I found out the current Kosovo PM is effectively an ex-terrorist. And there are a number of people who did declare the house/street/other etc an independant country (eg Sealand). Britain do have a very bad record when it comes to this subject, but you are wrong saying Russia have no record in that department. Russia used to (and to some extent still do) a masisve empire, in which the Tsar and his family commite numerous abuses of the population, and the there was the Soviet period. Venzuela happen to have their own territorial dispute, in which they claim about half of Guyana.

As I said before, global politics is a mess becuase every government is tainted by the actions of their predecessors.