On July 15, 2026, Argentina’s national team beat England 2-1 in the World Cup semifinal match in Atlanta, Georgia, advancing to the final against Spain. It was a stunning victory since Argentina trailed England 1-0 for most of the game but scored two goals within seven minutes at the very end of the match. A moment minutes after the end of the match stood out as the most worth highlighting and is the reason for this post. The Argentine players, facing thousands of jubilant fans in the Atlanta stadium, unfurled a banner that read in Spanish: “LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS” (The Malvinas Belong to Argentina), drawing louder cheers from the stands. This article provides historical background to this conflict.
hashtag not all colonialism
that said, the Falklanders are literally the closest thing to an “indigenous” culture on the Falklands, why should a settler-colonial state like Argentina have any claim on their self determination?
argentina, the land known for its multiple colonies and its extensive history of expansionism.
Argentina IS a settler colony built from the colonization, conquest, expulsion and genocide of indigenous people, in antagonism with other settler colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uniedprovinces3.jpeg just like every single other country in the western hemisphere, from Canada to Chile.
you are a delusional cracker. argentina doesn’t have a claim to self determination, but the UK, the country known for lootin, stealin, colonizing, has a claim. yeah, im sure you’re not a cia bot or something like that. your understanding is an idiotic simplification of contemporary politics influenced by the rotten ideology of the west. according to you no country in latam should a claim because they were all formed during european colonization. you clearly don’t see the difference between a country that was formed by colonization but that nowadays forms part of the global south vs the shit you live in in the global north? according to you there are not indiginous people living in latam, it’s just a settler colonial entity. the reality in latam is one that you clearly don’t know, haven heard of, haven’t talked to people here, because we’re very much different from your genocidal kind. if states remain under their colonial form is not because of the will of the people, but because of the violence your folks keep pushing in our land. but the true is that people here still represent the plethora of ethnicities and identities that were formed under said colonization. please go fucking die.
I guess that’s what “winning” an argument with breathless vitriolic invective looks like in your brain.
I don’t actually object to many of the fragments of coherent ideas in your vomit of a rant. But your psyche right now seems to require that I stand in for some kind of a Great Satan or something so I’m not going to pretend to discuss any further with you. All you want is a punching bag. Go punch a wall or something.
What’s actually funny is that all this boils down to a nationalist argument about whether Argentina gets to lay claim and ethnically cleanse the Falklands. You’re frothing at the mouth because you want to conquer 3500 people who literally did nothing to you or anybody and you’re dressing it up as “anti-imperialism”. Go froth some more.