Originally posted by Deity Dude
I always like when a country that is way over matched starts a war they cant possibly win.
Falkland Islands come to mind quickly.
I always like when a country that is way over matched starts a war they cant possibly win.
Falkland Islands come to mind quickly.
Paraguay was the aggressor by the way, they lost half of their territory, and most of its population was exterminated, it fell from 1.300 millions to 200 thousand, most of them women, kids and old people.
Argentina invaded the falklands, because they thought England would not try to get the islands back, that the english were not going to travel 10 thousand kilometers for a couple of small islands with 2000 inhabitants.
Also, Argentina and England had been allies since the XIX century.
A week before the falklands war, hundreds of thousands of armed peronists marched to the government house and threatened the military dictatorship with violence, the military thought "we have to do something quick to regain popularity or the people are going to kill us all", and the best idea they had was "re-conquering" the falkland islands, for a few weeks their planned worked, they became popular again, the same people who were cursing them the last week, were now waving argentine flags, but once they lost the war they had to leave the government and reinstate democracy.
Other latin american wars are the pacific war between Peru/Bolivia and Chile, in that war Bolivia lost its coast and became a landlocked country.
The Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay, the 2 countries fought for a territory which they thought was rich in oil, but it had no oil at all, a very pathetic war.
And the football/soccer war between Salvador and Honduras!
The most boring war was the war between Argentina and Brazil for Uruguay, it ended up in a tie, Argentina winning on land, but Brazil blockading the harbour of Buenos Aires with its superior fleet.
Because no one could win, england came, and said, lets make Uruguay an independent country so you 2 stop fighting for it.
And that way Uruguay was born.
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