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I was reading a book about the War of the Triple Alliances (the Great Southern Cone War to you Brits), and the author repeatedly mentioned how it was Franco Solano Lopez´s incredible diplomatic skills that allowed him to bring Bolivia and Chile into the war with Paraguay. What if Lopez had been a lesser diplomat, but had retained his almost obsessive insistence on going to war? Would he have been less ambitious than in Our Universe, or would he have still took on the Montevideo Pact? Would Paraguay have had a fighting chance either way, if they were solo?
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