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France's Liberation on the same day mocked Spain's gunboat diplomacy, arguing that the islet was merely a pretext "for more serious underlying tensions," since the Strait of Gibraltar marks "an explosive border separating the worlds of North and South, prosperity and misery. Writing in an age before the advent of American gunboat diplomacy and Yankee imperialism in Latin America (the Monroe Doctrine notwithstanding), Sarmiento looked to the United States as a model of what a liberal, progressive, and modernizing Argentina might become. In fighting this "asymmetrical" threat, gunboat diplomacy, applied pre-emptively if need be, offers the only practical solution. |
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