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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
Gulf War II is an example of historic empire building? Wow that's a broad definition... I reject your 'fix'. 
Also its pretty tough to 'compare' the reduction of Hong Kong, the eventual recapture of Taiwan to Gulf War II. Just different everything. |
the concept of empire changed after the second world war, both the US and USSR engaged in client state empires and Gulf war 2 was definatly an attempt to put a US friendly oil producing client state in the middle east.
I do agree it is tough to compare China's desire to reclaim territory that was for a thousand years part of China and was taken in part by force, as unpleasant as that is for us and the US bombing some country on the other side of the world it had no business messing with into an anarchic state at the cost of a half million dead, destablysing the whole region, and on some level helping to create the anarchy in Syria and the rise of ISIS.