Just want to get some perspective on what people think of the American reaction. I’m NOT asking if it will happen. I’m asking what do you think Americans will do, if anything if this happens. Do you think people will just not care or protest on the streets?

Edit: What would your reaction would be? (even if not American)

  • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    11 hours ago

    The frog in the pot analogy comes to mind. Americans were sitting in the cold pot while trump stoked the fire under them. They’ve sat there largely content as the temp rises.

    But if an attack was launched against the US it would be as if the frog was tossed into hot water. They would jump up and take action.

    Now a nuke going off miles away might only raise a stir among the US population if the world sanctions the US.

    The US dropping a nuke without consequences might encourage the UK to be bolder in its defence of the Falklands.

    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Pretty much describes the situation. That Falklands bit is wack too though. Crazy to think there are still places that if poor enough the UK will just be like “You know, maybe we DO still have a couple peasant colonies. Did they really earn the same sovereignty as India and Australia? Nobody will care”

      • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        11 hours ago

        Falklands were never fully settled until westerns came along around 1800. Spanish, US and finally Britain. All the people there voted to stay in UK

        • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          10 hours ago

          Wait. I have this confused. This isn’t the island that one Argentinian cowboy claimed? I’m about to show my full ignorant ass here.

          Edit: oh, this is the place I was thinking of. I just have not heard of this side of the narrative. Are the people that voted native Falklanders/Argentine or are they connected to that UK airbase on the island?

          • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            10 hours ago

            Everything I’ve read has it listed as abandoned and then settled first by the US and then Britain. No indigenous natives.

            • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              10 hours ago

              There have been a few colonies since the 1880’s. I guess they were mostly commercial ventures. I know I shouldn’t have partiality to foreign conflicts like this but this was my first introduction to the subject. Youtube / Invidious

              Obviously I need to examine this more

              • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
                2·
                9 hours ago

                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.