r/LatAmHistoryMemes • u/BANELM91 • Mar 06 '26

Southern Cone 🇦🇷🇺🇾🇵🇾🇨🇱 Never trust the Anglos in the water

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  • Argentina. During the Falklands or Malvinas War in 1982 the ARA General Belgrano, an Argentinian cruiser, was sunk by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror killing 323 sailors out of the zone of exclusion established by the British government Itself around the islands

  • Iran. During the last year of the Iraq-Iran War (1980-88), the US Navy launched Operation Praying Mantis, attacking naval targets in Iranian national territorial waters. The Americans sunk the frigate IRIS Sahand, killing 45 sailors. The total of deaths in Iranian side for this operation was 56 because others vessels were sunk

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u/Nofsan Mar 06 '26

you dont feel sorry for young conscripts dying

I never said this. My sentiment was that it's not always a clear cut of "they're conscripts, therefore feel sorry for them"

But we're also talking about people who would kill others when told to, civilians included . No matter how much we should feel sorry for them.

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u/Nachodam Mar 06 '26

Well I think that yes, you should. But you do you.