THE MODERN ERA'S MOST DESTRUCTIVE WAR TOOK PLACE IN … PARAGUAY

[spanishspy]

Because, 150 years later, Paraguay is still licking its wounds.

[stevep]

Jul 2, 2018 0:45:13 GMT spanishspy said:

Because, 150 years later, Paraguay is still licking its wounds.

  Yes its astonishing how long the Paraguayans persisted in the war and how devastating it was.  With ~90% of the adult male population dead its a wonder the country actually continued to exist. 

[lordroel]

Jul 2, 2018 14:23:54 GMT stevep said:

Jul 2, 2018 0:45:13 GMT spanishspy said:

Because, 150 years later, Paraguay is still licking its wounds.

  Yes its astonishing how long the Paraguayans persisted in the war and how devastating it was.  With ~90% of the adult male population dead its a wonder the country actually continued to exist. 

Doubt there was any change of them winning the Paraguayan War

[stevep]

Jul 2, 2018 14:25:20 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 2, 2018 14:23:54 GMT stevep said:

  Yes its astonishing how long the Paraguayans persisted in the war and how devastating it was.  With ~90% of the adult male population dead its a wonder the country actually continued to exist. 

Doubt there was any change of them winning the Paraguayan War

   Not with an idiot like Lopaz in charge, managing to establish a triple alliance against him.  Although there seems to have been a degree of fanaticism throughout the country as a whole.

[spanishspy]

Jul 2, 2018 14:31:01 GMT stevep said:

Jul 2, 2018 14:25:20 GMT lordroel said:

Doubt there was any change of them winning the Paraguayan War

   Not with an idiot like Lopaz in charge, managing to establish a triple alliance against him.  Although there seems to have been a degree of fanaticism throughout the country as a whole.

I've often though of Lopecista Paraguay as a 19th century North Korea, and that suicidal foolhardiness combined with some other strange things (like forbidding people from marrying within their race) turned him into a prototype for 20th century dictators.