I mean the original US states were also British colonies with ethnically British people having fairly British culture. They just revolted over unfair taxes and the culture diverged with immigration of other Europeans.

The main difference between the pre revolution colonies and the Falklands is that there weren’t any natives on the Falklands that had to be removed first, and the Falklands are much smaller and less important.

3000 LEO based ICBM interceptors? That’s rookie numbers! A property defense system would have 100000 Brilliant Pebbles.

found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rhauQxM6F8

If lemmy and kbin federate together, shouldn’t any lemmy app let you access kbin?

Most people here wouldn’t have heard about the migrant boat at all if the submarine story hadn’t happened.