MikeKardec
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It was a strange time, lot's of tension in the world yet no clear indication who was going to end up on what side or when. By the end of the decade Finland was fighting the USSR, Germany and Russia would be allied and abusing Poland together, England was wooing Italy as a bulwark against Germany, Japan (a nobody until the turn of the century) colonized Korea, Manchuria, and was starting on China. Times were crazy. Of course we had fought two wars with Great Britain on our own soil ... and it certainly could look like they were taking over the world. Possibly the British Empire was already collapsing under it's own weight but how many people really knew that at the time.
Interesting how it seems it was the end of an era where a powerful country thought it had to seize areas containing natural resources rather than just buying them like we do now, an era that had started with the Spanish or Portuguese Empire, peaked with the British lead to the Germans, Italians and Japanese proving that that model just didn't work any longer.
Interesting how it seems it was the end of an era where a powerful country thought it had to seize areas containing natural resources rather than just buying them like we do now, an era that had started with the Spanish or Portuguese Empire, peaked with the British lead to the Germans, Italians and Japanese proving that that model just didn't work any longer.
