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  • FWIW,

    wp:History of the Falkland Islands,

    wp:Timeline of the history of the Falkland Islands,

    and,

    wp:David Jewett

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    David Jewett (June 17, 1772 – July 26, 1842) was an American-born Brazilian naval officer known for his role in the sovereignty dispute between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (the predecessor state of Argentina) over the Falkland Islands. He was a naval commander in the Quasi-War with France and following the end of that conflict he offered his services as a mercenary in both the United Provinces and the Empire of Brazil. Licensed as a privateer by the United Provinces to seize Spanish ships, he was later accused of piracy following the seizure of American and Portuguese flagged vessels. Jewett finished his career in the Imperial Brazilian Navy, serving under Lord Cochrane and died in Rio de Janeiro in 1842.


  • It seems that according to your political morality, Hitler, every member of the SS, every guard in Auschwitz, every other member of the Nazi Party, and every other German who didn’t make it out of the country or didn’t want to wind up in prison or dead in a probable futile fight, is equally bad.

    Meanwhile Churchill, every British soldier, every other citizen of United Kingdom, including every Nazi sympathizer and/or imperialist is equally good.

    No American can talk about another country’s bad deeds because what America is doing.

    America had no business invading Nazi Germany, until they first got rid of their racism, and maybe paid restitution for slavery and return territory to the indigenous.

    UK had no business invading Nazi Germany until they allowed their territories in Africa and Asia to go independent. Hitler murdered Jews and Slavs, Churchill murdered Bengalis.

    Similar with France. How dare they fight against Vichy when they fought against anti-imperialists in Algeria.

    Who murdered more Ukrainians? Hitler or Stalin? Maybe the Western allies such as the US should have let them fight it out.







  • As one over 50, death, such as by suicide, is (FAIK) irreversible.

    The living can choose death, but the dead can’t choose life: they can choose nothing.

    While I don’t have the vigour when I was, say, in my 20s, I still feel (at times at least) vigourous.

    Ditto strength.

    I might be mentally better, and such might last for a decade or 2.

    Technology has gotten better. For example, there was a time when I was over 18 that I couldn’t post stuff like this on the internet, yet here I am making posts.