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Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
argentinans are completely retarded lol, their president gets away with ordering public officials killed and has had so much plastic surgury she looks like if mick jagger hosed a bunraku puppet. they're the only country in latin america to actually get poorer over the last 70 years haha

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Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
their navy is so poorly maintained that one of their destroyers sank while chained up in port lol

David Copperfield
Mar 14, 2004


im david copperfield

Jonad posted:

their navy is so poorly maintained that one of their destroyers sank while chained up in port lol


An innovative way to prevent their ships from being seized abroad to pay their debts

ironically that's the only reason to feel bad for argentina itt

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop
It woudl be funny to see the UK try to undertake an independent amphibious operation and lose all their poo poo to anti ship missiles and the tabloids would be filled with uk flag coffins

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Jonad posted:

argentinans are completely retarded lol, their president gets away with ordering public officials killed and has had so much plastic surgury she looks like if mick jagger hosed a bunraku puppet. they're the only country in latin america to actually get poorer over the last 70 years haha

Literally everything in that report is fake and that prosecutor was known to be off his poo poo. The kirchener family has been great for argentina and I love and respect them for throwing off the yoke of imf loans and neoliberal rent extraction

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos

Korranus posted:

It'd be funny to see America laugh at Britain when they invoke Article 5 and leave the Brits to cobble together some Indian and French bullshit to go get the Malvinas back

The UK is going to be one of the buyers for the JSF right? Maybe that's all Argentina is waiting for. They know they don't have much chance against whatever Typhoons Britain can ferry over, but once those get replaced by F-35s even the ancient rusty block-30 F-16s or whatever the hell planes Argentina uses will have a decent chance. Especially if they launch an invasion while it's raining...or when it's hot.

Iymarra
Oct 4, 2010




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Grimey Drawer
God bless Margaret Thatcher, may she RIP.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Innerguard posted:

God bless Margaret Thatcher, may she RIP.
They should carve her face into one of rocky Falklands hills, facing west toward Buenos Aires. Her mouth wide open and nesting penguins.

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost
Lol as if the argies would ever have the balls to attack the falklands again. Kirchner knows its best if they stay english anyway - it keeps the argies shaking their fists at the ocean and not at her.

RideTheSpiral
Sep 18, 2005
College Slice
lmao argentina is by far the most faggoty country on earth

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos

Slugnoid posted:

Lol as if the argies would ever have the balls to attack the falklands again. Kirchner knows its best if they stay english anyway - it keeps the argies shaking their fists at the ocean and not at her.

"Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia."

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Jonad posted:

argentinans are completely retarded lol, their president gets away with ordering public officials killed and has had so much plastic surgury she looks like if mick jagger hosed a bunraku puppet. they're the only country in latin america to actually get poorer over the last 70 years haha

reminder:

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

the kirchners are loving horrible beyond belief but a few decades of fascist dictatorship definitely didnt help things

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Lawman 0 posted:

reminder:


Duhhh thats a great chart with absolutely no context about the fake growth and international debt during the neoliberal years

Explosive Tampons
Jul 9, 2014

Your days are gone!!!

Dejan Bimble posted:

Literally everything in that report is fake and that prosecutor was known to be off his poo poo. The kirchener family has been great for argentina and I love and respect them for throwing off the yoke of imf loans and neoliberal rent extraction

source your quotes

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos

Dejan Bimble posted:

Duhhh thats a great chart with absolutely no context about the fake growth and international debt during the neoliberal years

Don't forget the Nazi gold right after 1945.

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Japanese Phone Box posted:

source your quotes

http://nw08.american.edu/~aporzeca/Argentina%20The%20root%20cause%20of%20the%20disaster.pdf

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
britain may rule the waves

but she certainly waives the rules

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
just kidding argentina is lol

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost
John Strong found the Falklands in 1690. Pablo Weak wants to steal them in 2015

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

IronClaymore posted:

Don't forget the Nazi gold right after 1945.

almost offset the losses in 1943-45 from all the nazi war bonds peron bought. really picked the right horse there juan

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
you can really thank the U.S. for the argentinian defeat in 1982. because the u.s. did a lot of training and advising there during the dirty war. but the U.S. imparted to the argentines the lesson that expensive tricked-out technology wins the day, so the argentinans went on a shopping spree for advanced weapons without ever really learning how to use it together, or use it effectively.

and then the british showed up with gusto and actual fighting skills and kicked their butts.

so what i'm saying is lol

Fumble
Sep 4, 2006

Are they still mad over the General Belgrano?

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

255 brits killed to 649 argentines killed is still pretty good numbers imo for a third world country

RideTheSpiral
Sep 18, 2005
College Slice
britain has won more wars than the usa since 1945 lmao

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

RideTheSpiral posted:

britain has won more wars than the usa since 1945 lmao

won battles (imperialist battles) but lost the war (lost the empire)

i watched the recent british prime minister debate and they are all apologizing for how poo poo the UK is now except for UKIP and that guy is a pathetic racist tugging on a lost cause sucking past which never truly existed

RideTheSpiral
Sep 18, 2005
College Slice

TEAYCHES posted:

won battles (imperialist battles) but lost the war (lost the empire)

i watched the recent british prime minister debate and they are all apologizing for how poo poo the UK is now except for UKIP and that guy is a pathetic racist tugging on a lost cause sucking past which never truly existed

sorry that british people dont constantly tell each other that their country is the best in the world

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Aug 26, 2008

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Scratchmo

RideTheSpiral posted:

lmao argentina is by far the most faggoty country on earth

Fumble
Sep 4, 2006

TEAYCHES posted:

won battles (imperialist battles) but lost the war (lost the empire)

i watched the recent british prime minister debate and they are all apologizing for how poo poo the UK is now except for UKIP and that guy is a pathetic racist tugging on a lost cause sucking past which never truly existed

The time of empires has past. It's true at one point we hosed half the world with our giant imperial penis, but it's the 21st century now and are content with what we have left of the commonwealth.

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Aug 26, 2008

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Scratchmo
Britain should have responded to Argentina's invasion by nuking them IMHO

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos

Fumble posted:

The time of empires has past. It's true at one point we hosed half the world with our giant imperial penis, but it's the 21st century now and are content with what we have left of the commonwealth.

Yeah well, it's expensive to maintain control of an empire, in both blood and money. And then when you fight a war to protect your colonists and give them a whole lot of new territory to expand in to, and ask them to pay their fair share of this war fought with your soldiers but for their benefit, they get all uppity and treasonous. poo poo like that gets tiring eventually.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Fumble posted:

The time of empires has past. It's true at one point we hosed half the world with our giant imperial penis, but it's the 21st century now and are content with what we have left of the commonwealth.

are you? Are You?

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
Lots of Brit people get all screechy over the Falklands because our 1982 victory there remains a compensatory figleaf after our loss of the Empire.

the Argies should totally take them back again while we've managed to mislay our aircraft carriers.


<<<thread descends into bad-tempered careposts about the relative strengths of the Argentinian and British armed forces>>>

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Pistol_Pete posted:

Lots of Brit people get all screechy over the Falklands because our 1982 victory there remains a compensatory figleaf after our loss of the Empire.

the Argies should totally take them back again while we've managed to mislay our aircraft carriers.


<<<thread descends into bad-tempered careposts about the relative strengths of the Argentinian and British armed forces>>>

rip ARA Nestor Kirchner, lost with all hands two feet from dock due to massive and irreperable contact with water

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
so why do all other south ameros hate argentinians? Is it cuz they dont pretend to have indigineous blood and look down on sunkissed skinners there?

midnightclimax
Dec 3, 2011

by XyloJW
all south american nations hate each other for this or that reason.

Shark Sandwich
Sep 6, 2010

by R. Guyovich
it was pretty dumb of the junta to think that the us wouldn't back a nato member over a south american country. cia backing or not

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos

midnightclimax posted:

all south american nations hate each other for this or that reason.

Well, we couldn't have the nations of south and central America becoming friends and forming trade coalitions and such to demand better deals, now could we? It is naive to think that all the US interference in the region was due to anti-communist ideology, the real reason the CIA gave money and guns and training to terrorists every time a country democratically elected a slightly left-leaning government was because such a government might demand a more equitable trade deal. Spending money on propaganda to keep the region fractured was simply icing on the cake of economic policy.

Basic divide and conquer.

Besides, that's what the British Empire really was most of the time, forcing people to accept nasty trade deals at the point of a gun. Now that they're out of the way, the student has become the master. :911:
Edit: also :china:

Roy
Sep 24, 2007
I don't see why a few Brits living on an island means it's somehow British.

There are more Brits on any given Greek island at any given time than on the Falklands.

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:

it was pretty dumb of the junta to think that the us wouldn't back a nato member over a south american country. cia backing or not
they argentinians basically thought they could pull off their own version of the indian invasion of goa. except britain is not portugal (at least not yet). which was pretty stupid to launch a war without expecting the other side to fight you.

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