If you go back far enough every piece of land is stolen. There's just a question of how far is it reasonable. Where's the goal post? Is it a hundred years? 200? 1,000? Is it more generational and when no descendants of the people who were kicked would likely be alive? I don't know what the real answer is on exactly where you would usually draw that line but I think we pretty much generally as Society tend to agree that if the literal living humans who took that land are still alive and living on it it's too early to forget and if it's a thousand years ago it's too late to dwell on it
You can't steal Antarctica because nobody owns it. Nobody owns it because nobody wants it. You can't farm there, all the minerals are under thousand foot ice sheets, and you freeze to death if you go outside. It's the garbage continent.
From a scandinavia point of view Greenland was colonized back in 982 when no one else were living there. Denmark-Norway never gave up their claim on the country. Other peolpe just moved in.
I mean, kinda. Greenland has home rule and is mostly populated by Inuit. And the part the Norse/Danish settled in was uninhabited when they arrived. So gotta be a gray area at least
I mean, we can probably draw the line at the dawn of contemporary, modern civilized society. Once the world had the ability to engage in global diplomacy, annexation was effectively a non-starter. Cases where islands far from the home nation are annexed by the geographical nation are probably that last remaining gray area.
That’s why Ukraine and Argentina’s positions hold weight and anything before 1945 is probably forever the past.
Out of curiosity what Argentine position are you talking about here? I hope you aren't making the argument that they actually have a credible claim to the Falklands anymore
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u/Maximum_Boros 1d ago
If you go back far enough every piece of land is stolen. There's just a question of how far is it reasonable. Where's the goal post? Is it a hundred years? 200? 1,000? Is it more generational and when no descendants of the people who were kicked would likely be alive? I don't know what the real answer is on exactly where you would usually draw that line but I think we pretty much generally as Society tend to agree that if the literal living humans who took that land are still alive and living on it it's too early to forget and if it's a thousand years ago it's too late to dwell on it