RichM it’s best to bail here or it’ll descend into me calling him a boring fucking cunt - something not even he could disagree with

    <Jesus fucking wept, just ignore the boring fucking cunt like you said you would>

    Groomers to the left of you, weeds to the right, stuck in retirement with Grant.

    I feel a visit to the Cotswolds is needed, stat.

      hugopal It’s debatable if any invasion of the Falklands even took place by the UK

          zackster if you actually own the place already you’re not invading it. At that point in time it was the UK who owned it and Argentina who had invaded.

              hugopal lol of course! The exact same logic you used for Israel and the settlements!

                  zackster lol of course! The exact same logic you used for Israel and the settlements!

                  Well yeah I mean - as I’ve pointed out before the region was owned by the Ottoman Empire before the British won it off them when they already were at war.
                  There’s also a difference between invading a country before they have done anything to you (Germany on Poland, Arab League on Israel, Russia on Ukraine), and invading another country as a response to them having invaded you first.

                    Along_the_Wire is it fair too simply assume that I don’t agree with murder, torture and kidnapping of innocent civilians

                    It’s amazing that anyone will argue against this position.

                    All of you taking a firm side are either emotionally and irrationally tied to that position or ignorant to the history of this conflict. Regardless of who is “wrong” on whatever timescale you’ve cherry-picked, killing civilians and propagating conflict isn’t a solution. Indiscriminate killing on both sides only ensures that future generations are still entrenched in an endless war. It’s a carbon copy of 20th century American foreign policy and we’ve seen what that does to extremism and terroism.

                    Maybe it’s time for a different strategy, but then we’d have to have the discussion about the influence of magical thinking on society and we all know that’s not happening anytime soon.

                    This shit makes me want to cheer for climate change.