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Check >>this link<<, for a historical view of the rulers of the ME.
Middle East hot potatoe.
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Phantom
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Ah, I see what you are saying. Yes, I too watched Israel the closest while watching the video. I was familiar with all of the different occupations, save two. Never even heard of those empires. Also didn't know the Ottomans' reign lasted until as recently as it did. Guess you learn something new every day.
Jhony5
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By we, I guess you mean America. Our land will never be overtaken by an invading empire. Not in 50 years, not in 500. Once a nation assumes a certain amount of power, there is no taking it. Not by conventional means at least. It will take the dooming of the Earth itself to cause our infrastructure to fail.
I see the hominid known as ****-sapien as being in its twilight centuries. Our trademark large brain separated us from our previous variations. Giving us the ability to invent technology that will, quite ironically, be the end of our kind. After several more decades go by, the technology to create devastating nuclear weaponry will be so elementary that every loose cannon faction on Earth will be able to implement it.
I see this issue of nuclear proliferation as the eventual downfall of the United States. Eventually the end of all people.
America gets a lot of **** for its policing of the Earth. Well the question must be asked. Doesn't someone have to do this? Honestly, its an ugly business, but what would become of the world without a leading power, that isn't oppressive? If WWI and WWII had gone the other way, our world would still be witnessing this game of "musical chairs" played by conquering empires.
Jhony5
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Well I understand your sentiment. But Rome didn't have the ability to evaporate thousands of square miles with the push of a button. As a mtter of fact, they didn't even have a button of any kind. The button hadn't been invented yet.
Yes America could fall victim to nuclear devastation. But not without a substantial counterstrike. America has gained so much power at this point, that its hard to create a scenario in which we could be overthrown without the Earth itself being victimized, as well as our species.
This was all set in motion when we learned split the atom. Thus setting into motion the Doomsday Clock
Msixty
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Rome had the equivalent of the nuke in their day. They had weapons that could eradicate hoards of troops in a volley, and the armor they wore could stop the very same bolt that did such damage. They had weapons that couldn't be turned against them, and they also had wartime technology like no other people of the time. They had computers, and ships of power, they stole technology from entire races of people, then committed genocide and rendered them the only ones with the power. They stopped at nothing, and had the greatest cities the world had ever seen. They had advanced forms of government that they spread to the world.
And they were completely eradicated.
We must take a lesson from history, for history has a habit of repeating itself. Rome died off because it became too confident in it's power, we cannot afford to do the same.
(ya know, just say'n
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And they were completely eradicated.
We must take a lesson from history, for history has a habit of repeating itself. Rome died off because it became too confident in it's power, we cannot afford to do the same.
(ya know, just say'n
)
Phantom
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There was a documentary on just the other day about this tactic. Er... Masada (I think?)- some Jewish fortress. The Romans blocked them off so the Jews barricaded themselves in. Once the Romans started building a bridge to penetrate the fortress, the Jews killed themselves. Sad, but an interesting strategy.