The current naming of the map as “Falkland Islands” in War Thunder overlooks the fact that this territory is the subject of a long-standing sovereignty dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina. Internationally, many countries and organizations including most of Latin America and several members of the United Nations acknowledge the Argentine claim and refer to the islands as “Islas Malvinas”.
Using only the British denomination reinforces a one-sided narrative and can be perceived as taking a political stance in a sensitive historical matter. By allowing the map to appear as “Islas Malvinas” in Spanish-speaking regions or in countries that officially recognize the Argentine naming, War Thunder would show cultural respect, neutrality, and awareness of international perspectives.
The following countries supports the Argentine “Malvinas”
Brazil
Uruguay
Paraguay
Bolivia
Chile
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Venezuela
Cuba
Mexico
Nicaragua
Honduras
El Salvador
Guatemala
Panama
Dominican Republic
Regional organizations:
MERCOSUR
CELAC
ALBA
UNASUR (before its suspension)
OAS (most resolutions support dialogue and recognize the dispute)
Africa:
South Africa
Namibia
Angola
Mozambique
Nigeria
Algeria
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
Ghana
Asia:
China
India
Indonesia
Vietnam
Laos
Iran
Syria
Philippines (has backed calls for negotiations)
Russia (calls UK a colonial power in this case and supports Argentina’s sovereignty claim)
Belarus
Palestine
Serbia (due to Kosovo analogy, supports territorial integrity arguments)
Now, the following countries supports British “Falklands”
NATO and allies
United States
France
Germany
Netherlands
Italy
Spain
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Portugal
Belgium
Czech Republic
Poland
Greece
Turkey
Iceland
Japan
South Korea
Israel (curious because Israel sold weapons to Argentina during the war)
Ukraine
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
With this post I don’t intend to impose my opinion or my complaints about the British, much less offend them in the same way that it might offend me as an “Argie”. It’s simply a friendly recommendation, seeking neutrality to avoid conflicts within the community and try to make it a better place for users “too” political
Thank you very much for reading my recommendation.
That’s why I suggest to change the name to “Malvinas” for the Spanish community, not because of the conflict but even when you translate “Falklands” to Spanish literally says “Malvinas”, also, thank you for the comment. I really didn’t think that actually someone would even read my yap
Hi, I am new here so I’m pretty lost with the tags and stuff but I suppose that you are right, I don’t understood correctly how to used tags so I used AB an General
I’m not calling you out on what tags you used. What I was asking (and I think you confirmed) was that this is a localization issue (changing the in-game text differently based on game language). Such a fix would be great, and makes most “correctness” discussion (such as that from Morvran here) irrelevant.
I’m confused, do you want it to be changed to Malvinas on Spanish clients only, or on the clients of the countries that recognise it as Malvinas? The first is more likely to happen than the latter, if I’m being honest.
I dunno, the people who live there call it the Falklands so shouldn’t it remain that way in game? I suppose if it literally translates to Malvinas then maybe the Spanish local could change.
Regardless, I appreciate Russias hypocrisy regarding the situation.
I can’t really see an issue with changing it for the Spanish localization, but changing the names of things / places / entities, based on the subjective, political recognition of the country a user resides in, has the potential to become a very uncomfortable can of worms best left unopened.
I understand it’s just a map, but there are playable countries in this game that aren’t even universally recognized, so we need to be careful with the precedents we set, as this line of thinking can very quickly become a slippery slope into controversial discourse.
