What's clear is that the economic issues, whether having to do with squid or with oil, can be negotiated, assuming a modicum of goodwill and rationality on both sides. There are possible face saving compromises for Argentina, if the Argentines wanted that kind of a solution. There is little sign that they do; Argentines, and their politicians, prefer a grievance to a compromise that doesn't put the islands under Argentine sovereignty.
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