tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post6797220787306942447..comments2024-03-28T21:47:05.704+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Libertad o MuerteDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-36140935178672955442011-12-21T19:04:07.761+00:002011-12-21T19:04:07.761+00:00Exactly as effective a deterrent as it has ever be...Exactly as effective a deterrent as it has ever been, or ever will be.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-58584746480787699892011-12-21T19:02:14.200+00:002011-12-21T19:02:14.200+00:00Just as well we kept Trident.Just as well we kept Trident.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-13392507324199290682011-12-21T18:41:23.268+00:002011-12-21T18:41:23.268+00:00With any luck, we are about to find out.With any luck, we are about to find out.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-13532843617902408562011-12-21T18:33:09.088+00:002011-12-21T18:33:09.088+00:00Whatever happened to the Port War, the 200-year-ol...Whatever happened to the Port War, the 200-year-old rivalry between Montevideo and Buenos Aires?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-65321105266463522762011-12-21T18:04:29.557+00:002011-12-21T18:04:29.557+00:00Yes, but Imperial Britain was behind it all, and t...Yes, but Imperial Britain was behind it all, and the ties have bound ever since. People think that South America was pretty much exempt from the global superpower status of the British Empire in its heyday, apart from Guyana, which is culturally part of the West Indies anyway. But the truth was a lot more complicated than that. It still is.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-20223376095236868602011-12-21T17:27:04.992+00:002011-12-21T17:27:04.992+00:00"But Uruguay really was created by Britain sp..."But Uruguay really was created by Britain specifically not to be Argentina. "<br /><br />Its somewhat beside the point of your main post, but I thought that Uruguay was created as a buffer state between Argentina and Brazil, by agreement of both of those countries after a war they fought over the area ended in stalemate and destablized both regimes.Ednoreply@blogger.com