And Keesje needs to be reminded that
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senseless war mongering, Rambo talk, double standards, discrimination and selective use of rights, historical perspectives and double morale displayed
is mainly coming from the posturings and latino macho of Argentina.
Of course they are, and so is their populist president.
But that doesn't justify honorable members acting similar..
Trying to divert attention away from the Topic, the Falklands, well, I can understand the attempt. Lets bite
The Antilles, Dutch for a long time were important for slavery from Africa, a black page in our history. Contrary to other blatant colonist nations, we have many.
The Antilles are thousands of miles away from the Netherlands. It's an open society housing about 100 times as many people as the Falklands. Many races, origins, there's a normal immigration policy wrt the countries surrounding it. We haven't made ridiculous claims in the area, while there is a lot of oil. It still benefits the Antilles because they play part in the industry.
Companies from e.g. nearby Venezuela are loacted at them. Venezualla that made some claims on the islands in the past. But they have little to gain, their companies/ nationals already use the islands and are benefitting from this small piece of Europe next door in many different ways ( drugs anybody
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There is hardly any territorial pressure from any side. The reasonable proporous (tourism, oil) population itself doesn't care very much, you don't see any flagwaving, anthems, demonstrations militairy show offs.
Perhaps a direction for the Falklands. Strike a deal with Argetine, to boost trade, tourism, education for the Islanders, giving them better options by connecting to the potentially boosting Argentine economy. Create a big Falklands/ Malvinas / Oceanic Museum with them to start with. A real tourist attraction showing how civilized countries can go wrong, solve together and prosper after. Take an example on how the US dealt with their 1000 x worse Vietnam Trauma 20 yrs later.
So now on a lighter tone, w'll have an exciting Argentine Queen, Maxima, in a few months, that takes Camilla out of business before she's even started. (We got lucky, she's very intelligent, beautifull, sympathic, gave birth to 3 & understands her role.)
Now where's my helmet..