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Where's Cher?
What's with the uniform though. Are they expecting the troops to be in the literal water all day, hence the camouflage?
#XiJinping says strong navy serves as a key guarantee to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation http://xhne.ws/jwQYw
Need to build a strong navy has never been more urgent than today, says President Xi when reviewing navy http://xhne.ws/sPvXc
I suggest navies will sooner than later go the way of the HMS Hood.
Armies of drones and killer robots armed with chemical weapons means everything else is irrelevant. Best we can hope for is a stalemate. The nuclear arms race will be a mere blip compared to the advanced AI race.Yea... maybe planes and drones mean naval power is less relevant...
China will take over the world very easily. The US is soooooo weak.
College Installs "Cry Closet" As Safe Space For Student Snowflakes
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-25/college-installs-cry-closet-safe-space-student-snowflakes
Didn't some Yank wrote that very influential book on the necessity for serious naval power if one hope to project power, I mean, freedom, around the world?
Rome was a little hamlet before it stole that Greek (?) warship design and within a generation controls the Mediterraneans. The Poms and most of Europe would still be in the Dark Ages if they didn't have a few vessels mapping the world. The Yanks would still be around the other side of the world etc. etc.
Yea... maybe planes and drones mean naval power is less relevant... But then there are those trade routes to protect; landing troops and supplies to fight on other people's land (and break their stuff) rather than on the homeland.
Arsenal worked well for the Venetians until the New World became the place to be and Britain invented the industrial revolution in the late 1600s, early 1700s.
Don't know much about the Venetians beside them being forced to live among the marshes... that and invented the Croissant to celebrate the end/expulsion of the Muslim in Spain [?].
btw, did you know that the Chinese also have Outlaws of the Marsh, aka "All man are brothers"... during the end of the Tang Dynasty [700AD?]
Just check out Wikipedia and the Poms did kick off the Industrial Revolution, but around 1760s to the 1800s. I think they just got off the self torturing and burning of witches around the 1600s
But yea, the Poms are alright. Some great achievements from such a tiny outpost of well spoken people.
I thought it was Gutenberg [German?] and his printing press that kind of started the Industrial Revolution... and it was the Yank, Eli Whitney [?] and his cotton gin, then his mass produced, interchangeable rifle manufacturing process - which I heard was practically what made it possible to kick the Poms out of the colonies for good in 1812...
From that, then the butchers then Henry Ford perfect mass production through their specialised stations and production line... that results in today's cookie cutter goods, and services.
So it was the Yank that really... wait... there's that pin example in Adam Smith's classic I've only read a few pages of. But he's a Scot soo...
But then White people all look the same to me so alright, that's Britain 1: China 5000
Before we were taught to be ashamed of our skincolour and pedigree, Australian children were taught a quaint subject labelled as social studies, history, whatever.
No matter what wiki tells you, the industrial revolution had its beginnings in circa 1700. The American colonies became supply sides for the British machine and continued to be well after the civil war (Revolutionary War).
Arsenal is an island which produced state of the art war ships that continuously evolved to outpace other Mediterranean powers. It was fortified against secret stealing.
Yes I'm sure the Chinese invented Venice by virtue of the silk road,, which must have taken a lot of silkworms to build,
Yes, most of the world and its riches became supply side to British and European imperialism. Which kind of prove that all you need to rule the world is good arms and... maybe a religious text.
The Silk Road weren't made of silk. It's mainly to transport goods out of China and silver and gold back into it. The most valuable good being silk, hence... yea, I know you know. But probably don't realise that that road made many of the ancient world's trading centres what they were.
btw, is that where the word "arsenal" came from?
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Can't really call the Revolutionary War the a civil war... I guess that's why the yank don't call it the First Civil War.
Read Ben Franklin's bio and his retelling of his return to Boston (from Philadelphia) with a "foreign" currency that impresses his neighbours. Those from Boston consider those from another colony as foreigners... different laws, currency, people from various European states helps too.
In fact, Ken Burns The Civil War was saying that the United States weren't really a united state until after the Civil War... and that was when the US was maybe half the size it is today. I mean, Jackson haven't yet driven the Spaniards out of Florida, Cuba wasn't yet taken... Texas and the West weren't yet annexed from Mexico etc. etc.
So to say that the Revolutionary War with 13 tiny colonies against crazy George was a civil war might imply the taking of credit for what the Yank and their spirit for freedom and democracy do after the poms were kicked out.
Of course it was a civil war ....... even back then the Yanks did their best to put spin on fact. Revolutions are political upheavals for political change, whereas civil wars are civic upheavals for individual and collective rights.
But by your definition above, wouldn't it be a revolutionary war and not a civil one?
Thereafter came president Washington, not King Washington. i.e. the entire political structure was changed. I know, not all men were created equal after the poms were kicked out... some men were still superior to others. But the ruling elite did take turn running the place, giving pretence to democracy and having elections... King George and the poms decided to scour the Pacific for their new supply source.
Bipartisan reply to China is a triumph we’ll need to repeat
Greg Sheridan - The Australian
"The efforts of the intelligence committee chairman, the Liberals’ Andrew Hastie, and his Labor deputy, Anthony Byrne, have been hard-headed, conscientious and put the national interest first. At a time when politics seems feral, tribal, atomised and frequently deranged, this cold, hard, bipartisan approach on national security is something like the nation at its best."
(my bolds)
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ne...t/news-story/9c6e744a2d1b94404fd6197e15eeabda
Keep up the good work Australia.
A salutary lesson concerning Huawei from the Brits.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-16/huawei-britain-history-helps-explain-australia-anxiety/9875582
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