“How in the heck can anyone legitimize the UK’s claim to the Falkland Islands?”
I’ve often thought the same thing. Hundreds of years ago imperial England took advantage of a fishing dispute and just kind of waltzed in uninvited and claimed the islands.
The question is, do you now just kick people off their land hundreds of years after the fact?
That’s quite the can of logical worms you’ve opened.
Shouldn’t Argentina therefore be returned to whatever natives are left given that Europeans simply “waltzed in uninvited and claimed the country?” Same for the US? Should Australia be returned to the aborigines?