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US threatens Britain over Falklands (www.yahoo.com)

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/44708818

The United States has threatened to oppose Britain's sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.

The proposal is among measures being drawn up by senior defence officials at the Pentagon as an incentive to hit Nato's 5 per cent spending pledge.

A senior US official told The Telegraph that Britain was likely to receive "special attention" in Washington's review of its allies' commitment to Nato, which will examine whether member nations have credible paths toward the target.

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[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Eh, the Falklands are much more complicated than “UK Imperialism”. The locals overwhelmingly want to stay a part of the UK, and the island was pretty much inhabited until European counties started to live there.

[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

Yeah the British and French efforts to colonise the Falklands were probably the least morally questionable act of colonisation ever, since there was no indigenous people there to repress. They genuinely were terra nullius, in the actual original sense not the inhumane imperialist meaning of 'we don't consider the inhabitants human'.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

pretty much inhabited

uninhabited

[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

The Penguin's Republic of the Falkland Islands will rise again!

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Uninhibited? like colonized by Brits trying to escape Victorian prudes' oppression?

[–] DamnianWayne@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

As in like no one lives there except penguins.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure, but I'll assume you're kidding.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 10 hours ago

I don't know, do the Falklands have a lot of goats?