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As usual, details. Not only Chile has great terrain to defend that border (mountains!), what lies behind them is an actually modern army not really smaller than what Argentina has. But definitely scarier. Chile has its mechanized forces build around Leopards 2 and upgraded 1's with Marders as...

And both are commonly recognized cases of colonialism. 40 years, 80 years, whatever. The question is - are we talking law, pragmatism, justice? In either case, why would "legitimate ownership of the land" be a question of essentially a national game of King of the Hill, where a country can just...

Why are Cubans similar to Spain in culture? Oh, wait... Are you implying that settler colonialism and cultural assimilation (absolutely not necessarily voluntary) is something you consider a get out of jail free card for accusations of imperialism? These things had absolutely no legal or...

If both are in Cuba as imperialist colonizers, what makes one imperialists more legitimate than the other? Russia renounced claims to Crimea in the Budapest Memorandum by affirming Ukraine's borders in their shape at that time, and where are we now. Which still makes it a bad example, as...

But there was a pretty long period of time when USA was independent while Cuba was part of Spain. For that period, USA may as well have used the same argument. Besides that, Argentina started as a Spanish colony, while Falklands started as a British settlement on previously uninhabited land...

>imperialism Just because a third world country wants it doesn't make it imperialism to not give it to them. Just because it's closer to you by sea than the other guy doesn't mean it's yours, if that was the case Cuba would have been a US state because it's closer to USA than to Spain. Falklands...