Comments by "RB 70" (@RB-bd5tz) on "The Falklands War: Remembered | The Untold Story | Timeline" video.

@Artessnow I think you're missing my point. I'm making a cynical joke about white guilt: how, these days, countries like Canada and Australia are sucking up to the native peoples of their land, apologizing for taking "their" land and everything they've done in the past, kissing their butts and "compensating" them billions of dollars (which generally disappears), and putting an "indigenous" perspective on every school subject. In my part of Canada, every school assembly starts with a Treaty 6 acknowledgment, mentioning how we're on the traditional land of several native peoples, blah, blah - and there's usually not even anyone from those native peoples present. This is the same across Canada and in other former British territories. So if Argentina artificially planted some indigenous people from Patagonia on the Falklands, the Brits would be forced to acknowledge their traditional claim to the islands, and going to war would be a "hate crime" against them. I'm only half-joking.
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@Artessnow I don't identify as "my people." For the record, I'm as white as they come: a bunch of European mixed together. But I'm not proud nor ashamed of that, because I didn't pick my genes, nor where I was born (Canada). Consequently, I don't treat anybody differently from anyone else, based on things beyond their control. I know that white British, Americans, Australians, Canadians, South Africans, etc. did nasty things to nonwhites all over the world. But my direct ancestors weren't part of that - and even if they were, I'd feel no guilt about it; I wasn't involved, and I don't speak for them. I represent only myself. So I resent white people trying to tell me I have to feel guilty for being white - and I especially resent "affirmative action" and other official racism implemented to redress past racism. All racism is evil. And the supposed "remorse" for past wrongs has gone insane, to the point that "white" countries are trying to guilt themselves out of existence, erasing and rewriting their histories, and giving priority over their lifelong, taxpaying citizens to recent immigrants, and native peoples who suck at the government teat, while doing nothing but complaining about the government. So yeah, back to the topic: If the Argentinians moved some of their natives to the Falklands, the Brits may just sign over the islands without a fight, for woke points ...
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Argentina should try this again. All they'd have to do is drop off some native Patagonians on the islands, who would claim them as their traditional land, and the British would have to bend the knee to the indigenous people.
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@Artessnow Yeah, maybe - if Greta doesn't shut down oil exploration altogether! Actually, if they'd been smart, what the Argies should have done a long time ago is reverse-engineer their Exocets (like Iran did with the Phoenix missile for their F-14s). I imagine that France got told not to sell any more Exocets to the Argies - but if the Argies could build their own, the Brits would be absolutely screwed. Come to think of it, the Brits no longer have the long-range Vulcan bomber that they used to take out the Falklands runway last time, as a first strike. So ... since the outcome of the 1982 war was uncertain, winning them back a second time would probably be even more uncertain. Unless the Americans helped out somehow ... "secretly" ...
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