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2014-12-22 Europe

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Yuuup.

But out here in WESTPAC, mine + Madonna's concern is Rising China, agz which mainstream Amerika has not even begun to witness the US rollback across the Pacific towards Hawaii-EASTPAC + ultimately CONUS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-22 00:27|| 2014-12-22 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Howzabout the concept of RUSSIA = aka RUSSIAN FEDERATION having new Chinese Sub-States???

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RUSSIA'S ONLY WAY OUT OF RUBLE CRISIS - CHINESE ANTI-US/SANCTIONS ECONOMIC AID IN EXCHANGE FOR TERRITORY?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-22 01:17|| 2014-12-22 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I blame American Sentimentalism for allowing Europeans to live in a fantasy world.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-22 04:32|| 2014-12-22 04:32|| Front Page Top

#4 ...right up there with Emperor Justinian exhausting the resources of the Eastern Roman Empire to resurrect the fallen Western half of the old Roman Empire, leaving the place ripe to the very first wave of Muslim invaders? Time will tell.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-22 09:01|| 2014-12-22 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 To be fair, there were also a couple of plagues about that time, which went a fair way toward reducing that part of the population capable of bearing arms... And the rest of the population as well.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-22 11:31|| 2014-12-22 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Not to mention a couple of World Wars...

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-22 12:54|| 2014-12-22 12:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Fratricide. America got over that hurdle by 1865.The great immigration of the post Civil War period would be of people who either were fed up with Europe or Europe was fed up with in turn. The 1919 flu/plague would take far more than the battlefields of Europe in the years prior. Still had it in themselves to find enough manpower and resources for round two. It'll take about another hundred years to come to a final decision whether it was a wasted effort to save a suicidal society/civilization.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-22 13:35|| 2014-12-22 13:35|| Front Page Top

#8 The 1919 flu/plague would take far more than the battlefields of Europe in the years prior.

It wasn't so much the number of dead, but the 'quality' that was affected by WWI. One might call the War a particularly devious form of genetic engineering.

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-22 19:54|| 2014-12-22 19:54|| Front Page Top

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