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Old 07-08-2022, 12:55 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by PeteMoss View Post
It's not a time where you can just do immediately to turn yourself into some kind of powerful military from having basically no uber military at this point in time. We are well past the time where you can just roll up with a zillion guys and have a good army.

They are also a rapidly aging population and shrinking population as it is. If they just throw a bunch of people into an army and lost a bunch of them - their problems gets worse.

And yes - they should admit to what they did, but in the grand scheme of things - it doesn't matter that much. As we've seen in the US - it doesn't take a heck of a lot for people to decide that something they've always valued (fair democratic elections) to something they don't care about.
Really? I would say that what people believe to be true about history is really important in the grand scheme of things. The divisions in the US between people who believe Biden won the election vs those who believe Trump won is a prime example. People having different beliefs about what took place has the potential to result in outcomes as different as those between a peaceful transfer of power or the overthrow of a government.
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