It may be a mistake to jump into the World Cup History Drama, but I personally find it kind of wild that so many Argentina fans are so passionate about an archipelago that Argentina held for at most 15 years which ended nearly 200 years ago. Like do people realize how many borders and nations have changed since 1834, and what the world would be like if every country tried to press all the territorial claims that they’ve had over the past two centuries? Not to mention that the island’s population is and has been largely English for generations, do the Argentinians just want to imperializs the islands and forcibly remove them?? (I mean that was the military dictatorship’s plan in the 1980s, but I doubt many people would want to follow in their footsteps)
It’s just crazy that this is still coming up decades after the Falklands War, and so many Argentinans seem to be seriously treating the World Cup like their only chance at revenge for a failed imperialist expedition, it’s ridiculous 💀
