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**xADMlNx** · 01-22-2012, 02:06 AM

Argentina almost doesn't have an army, we could not invade Uruguay, and would lose a war to Perú.

That happens because the military is one of the most unpopular and less prestigious institutions of the country.
Mainly because of the last dictatorship, which ruined our economy, and in which they killed and disappeared around 8000 citizens, many of them terrorists, but many innocent, and even the ones who were terrorists should have deserved a fair trial. By doing that the military became terrorists themselves.

Two things were done in order to turn the military into something irrelevant, the first one was to put the people responsible for the crimes in jail be them Generals or soldiers obeying orders (they were put in jail in the 80s, forgiven in the 90s, and put back in jail the past decade) and the other was to diminish the budget of the military untill they become nothing more than glamorized cops.

So we have no chance of getting back the Falklands/Malvinas through war, also, the constitution which was reformed in 1994 says that Argentina will always reclaim the Islands, and intends to get them back according to international law, whatever that means, so military option is not considered, because it is impossible with the current army, and also because of the new constitution.

01-22-2012, 02:06 AM	#20
xADMlNx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 393 Senior Member	Argentina almost doesn't have an army, we could not invade Uruguay, and would lose a war to Perú. That happens because the military is one of the most unpopular and less prestigious institutions of the country. Mainly because of the last dictatorship, which ruined our economy, and in which they killed and disappeared around 8000 citizens, many of them terrorists, but many innocent, and even the ones who were terrorists should have deserved a fair trial. By doing that the military became terrorists themselves. Two things were done in order to turn the military into something irrelevant, the first one was to put the people responsible for the crimes in jail be them Generals or soldiers obeying orders (they were put in jail in the 80s, forgiven in the 90s, and put back in jail the past decade) and the other was to diminish the budget of the military untill they become nothing more than glamorized cops. So we have no chance of getting back the Falklands/Malvinas through war, also, the constitution which was reformed in 1994 says that Argentina will always reclaim the Islands, and intends to get them back according to international law, whatever that means, so military option is not considered, because it is impossible with the current army, and also because of the new constitution.
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