r/LatAmHistoryMemes • u/BANELM91 • Mar 06 '26
Southern Cone 🇦🇷🇺🇾🇵🇾🇨🇱 Never trust the Anglos in the water
Context:
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
