Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "ARA General Belgrano - Guide 047 (Extended - Human Voice)" video.

To be fair, while it can be argued that the Falklands are a self governing and semi-independent country today, 40 years ago they were a much poorer crown colony with no self government. So Argentina invaded a colony, not an "independent country".
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@mahbriggs Well perhaps a bit less wrong? For nearly 200 years Argentina has claimed that the Falklands are occupied territory and that the impoverished people had no say in things. And that was sort of true in 1982. But today it is prosperous (average income is 1.8 times that of the UK) and has an elected government. The only reason they can't be fully independent is their small size and what one of their politicians called "the obvious military threat", although he was careful not to say which country they found threatening. So Argentina had a bad case for their claims in 1982, while they have absolutely no case to claim the Falklands today.
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