• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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    Explanation: When the Americas were first discovered, the Pope split the newly-exploitable world between Spain and Portugal

    This didn’t last, and wouldn’t have applied to Greenland (which was already known) anyway, but it’s a stronger claim than whatever the fuck the current US administration is going on about.

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      eeeh… Portugal got brazil and Indonesia and Spain got the rest of Latam and the phillipenes. seems accurate.

      Stupid joke : This just means britain will invade iceland instead, since it’s roughly in the same position as the falkalnds.

      Insert coin for more jokes on the falklands

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          What do you call a waste reclamation center in the UK? “<Name of council> waste reclamation center”
          What do you call a waste reclamation center in Argentina? “planta de recuperación de agua DE LAS MALVINAS ARGENTINAS FUERA INGLATERRA SON NUESTRO TIERRA Y TAMBIEN LA ANTARTIDA ES NUESTRO HIELO, CUANTAS COPAS TENES BOLUDO?!”

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        and Spain got the rest of Latam and the phillipenes. seems accurate.

        Well, they were supposed to get ALL of North America and the Caribbean, but a couple of other Europowers muscled in

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          OK, but an agreement between portugal and spain doesn’t affect the behaviour of other parties.

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            Well, France was also Catholic and nominally should have respected the agreement (but didn’t)