Falkland Islands
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1duck":3q6hxsk7 said:
maybe not but there not gonna let them live out their normal day to day life with a new country running them, prob run the falklands into shit they have done with their home land.
too touchy a thread so not gonna post anymore here before i get banned
1duck
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longun":ozu5givy said:
haha argentina is the 21st biggest economy in the world, larger than holland and australia. Sure they suffer from recession cycles more than us. That's because they actually still have industry and exports,whilst europe has just gone into a service economy...if anything in real terms their economy is healthier than ours.
They would let them live out their normal day to day lives, they have no reason not to. The only thing that would change would be the flag, but of course we couldn't admit that for fear of losing what is just a military base which gives britain a (weak) claim for potential antartic oil fields.
we'll see about that in two years, a Chavez deja vu.
...and that comparison with Australia is a little bit outdated and doesn't even reflect other key economic and social indicators.. first its not even considered an advanced economy but an emerging one... ohh its and internet forum! back to le mans : )
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo ... D&grp=0&a=
...and that comparison with Australia is a little bit outdated and doesn't even reflect other key economic and social indicators.. first its not even considered an advanced economy but an emerging one... ohh its and internet forum! back to le mans : )
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo ... D&grp=0&a=
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1duck":j9oezl28 said:
Irrelevant twaddle.
Argentina itself does not make a claim on this basis.
And if it were international law and taken to it's only logical conclusion, that would mean every nation has to transfer sovereignty to its bigger neighbour. That would make the whole world Russian.
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What utter drivel!1duck":t20q6yo5 said:
Kindly quote your source of this misinformation.
Methinks if you turned round and bent over, we might be able to hear you better...
I wouldn't normally quote Wiki as a reliable source, but it does handily have three ratings of countries' GDPs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... P_(nominal)
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red_riviera":3h6pkhq3 said:
No infact it makes the claim on the fact that britain STOLE the islands in 1833
Which is quite reasonable seen as the islands were originally spanish. Also you always have to take into consideration the geography and international waters, geographic plates etc. That's why a large swathe of the arctic is infact being claimed by the russians. Tomorrow if the chinese stick a flag in some outlying uninhabited islands and populate them, will you be claiming those islands are british?
Taking advantage of the fact that argentina had just been created and stealing the islands was just colonialism in an era of colonialism, but nowadays i'd hope people with a little bit of common sense and a history book would be able to see past the necessity of holding onto the islands.
We should do like we did with hong kong and take out say a 90 year lease, that way it gives back the territory without giving it back, it would settle all these arguments and be a civilised way of dealing with it.
1duck":30a6jub3 said:
there's no such thing as "nuff said" when you're talking about growth, economy, social indicators, development, education, health and wealth.
You cant judge a country only by its GDP, that's nonsense.
I can bet you Netherlands beats Argentina in all of the others.
If you analise any of the BRICS, sure they have some awesome numbers now, but go and check life expectancy, access to education and health.
No one who wants to get a serious discussion on this topics can rule out those factors. And by the way, try to get a better source than wiki..
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