Some of the people with whom I swim outdoors used to drink the stuff to "stop them getting the squits".
As stomach acid has a far lower pH than the old two-stroke though, that old wives' tale doesn't stand up to close examination.
IIRC, Thatcher reportedly said years later that defending the Falklands was "never about the Falklands", but showing the Russians that we weren't there for the taking.
But someone else can support or refute that, as they wish.