Historically, the curve of size of empires is growing ever larger. Makes ya wonder when the usa will stop it's invasions.
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Have the British military invaded your country - see map for details
by besty 28 Replies latest jw friends
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besty
so when did the poms invade siberia?
1918 - more of a military intervention in support of the defeated White Russians against the newly ruling Bolsheviks.
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Ultimate Axiom
Invasion takes more than one form. Yes, we the British invaded most of the world at some point or another, but these days it's taking a different form. The USA failed miserably to invade Vietnam militarily, but has achieved so much more economically since then. We will all be colonies of the Chinese before long.
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Satanus
The title uses the word 'military'. It differentiates between military and other forms of invasion, such as cultural, religious or economic. It's about the means of projecting of power. Although still useful/necesary, today, military is less effective, than monetary. Information is coming up as another form.
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Ultimate Axiom
Satanus, you are right, I missed that sub tly in the title - and you are also right, IT has many more means than military and economic tools at it disposal. But information is an old tool that is becoming ever more difficult to control, and so long as the internet survives, that will be a tool that will prevent invasion rather than help it.
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Satanus
Let's hope that information continues to be as free as it is, today. I tend to think that it will be. For most people today, THEY are their own worst enemy, as the information is available, but they don't want it.
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Sulla
And yet we have never been at war with France. What are the odds?
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kurtbethel
That map is misleading.
It shows invaded countries in their current form, not the size and territory they were at the time of invasion.
Brits never invaded California.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
"Brits never invaded California."
How could you forget these invasions?
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Phizzy
Cofty: "Why did Spain invade Spain were they just practising?" LOL
Kind of, the Reconquista of 1492.
