Like the Malvinas were colonized from Argentina by the UK for its resources and to put mililtary there, this region was annexed from Venezuela by the british-ruled Guyana for similar reasons.

Guyana's current government is a US puppet regime that's given megacorps like Exxon Mobil full access to its oil (which is also claiming oil reserves in Venezuela's maritime borders through Essequibo), and is planning to place US military in Essequibo to aid in their trying to overthrow Venezuela. It makes sense to take measures to prevent this.

I honestly doubt they'll go and actually annex Essequibo back, but it's completely reasonable to at least place troops on the border to discourage US military from coming into the region.

[+] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works -9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

the Malvinas were colonized for resources

What resources do the Falklands have exactly? Fucking fish?

It was a convenient and well situated naval base historically, and now is perfectly able to declare independence if the population so wishes -the falklands just, shockingly, overall benefit from being a part of a larger and richer national entity.

Essequibo was disputed in colonial times, with the dispute being settled by an international tribunal. First it was about gold, now it’s about oil.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago

What resources do the Falklands have

Oil; same as Essequibo, hence my comment relating the two. You can look things up you know?

naval base historically

"Historically"? Lmao it has br*tish naval bases in it right now. Same thing the US wants to do with Essequibo.

international tribunal

Funny way to say imperialist colonizers. Now the difference is that the de facto leader of the imperial core is the US instead of the UK, and the former is interfering here now instead.

[+] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm for the independence of any part of a country that wants it (after hearing everyone's opinion), most large countries probably need to be broken up e.g. US, russia, China. But this is not the case, this is the largest country in the world absorbing a part of another country because some of its russian-speaking population wants to be russian but doesn't want to move there.

You can ask for independence, but it's just a scam when you do it just to irreversibly join their much larger neighbours, particularly if they are the ones sending weapons and people to kill you, take your rights away and send you to fight your own people.

PS: Oh shit, just realized that I'm in lemmy.ml instead of lemmy.world :/ sorry guys.