Australia vs Argentina: The World’s Most Polite Proxy War Over Lithium, Lamb, and Lost Pride
Australasia’s sunburned continent versus the southern cone of Latin America: on paper it sounds like a geopolitical bar-fight between two lonely hemispheres, each convinced the other smells faintly of sheep. Yet the rivalry—now being re-heated in everything from lithium boardrooms to TikTok rugby brawls—has quietly become the world’s most polite proxy war. Think of it…