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This doesn't seem to compare. Argentina did lay the mines.

• Taniwha 9y ago
  yes but they're not going to pay to remove them any more than Mexico is going to pay to build a wall, no matter how often some blowhard shouts it at clueless crowds
• throwanem 9y ago
  And then lost the war, yes. The trouble is that reparations, to be credibly imposed, must be backed by the threat of renewed hostilities, compared with which simply paying the weregild looks preferable; without such a threat, or at least the reasonable prospect of some meaningfully opprobrious consequence, the party nominally responsible for paying reparations has little enough reason to do other than simply ignore them. I doubt the UK is about to invade Argentina over the issue, or the UN to vote for sanctions.