The beach in Schleswig Holstein, at least one the Baltic side, is not as cold as you make it out to be. It is a wonderful place for a vacation these days.
There is a phenomenon of western liberalism that has a problem with accepting or understanding that the goals and values that they have - rule of law, territorial security, conquest is stupid, prosperity isn’t zero sum - are not universal or shared. When Putin says he regrets the fall of the USSR, he is not talking about economic development policy. He wants a big empire - probably more along the lines of the Romanov state. Either way, that’s not what the Baltics or Poland want. When Iran says “Death to Israel,” it’s not a critique of Israeli policy.
In a country song, you don’t need to get a gun. Everyone already has one.
Putin’s worldview is a lot older than the 19th century. The idea that Russia is surrounded and needs to dominate the Eurasian landmass, and needs a warm water point, has been dominant in Moscow since throwing off the Mongol Golden Horde (great name).
More generally, the idea that might makes right, and that conquest is how nations/states/tribes become great, was pretty much the default view of power until the 20th century. And that was only in the United States and Western European, which used their influence and power to institutionalize the norms that you can’t change borders by force. And it took two world wars and a lot of arm twisting of Europeans by the United States.
Fake news. The part of the Maine that probably exploded was was the magazine witch was lit by a coal bunker fire not the boiler.
The beach in Schleswig Holstein, at least one the Baltic side, is not as cold as you make it out to be. It is a wonderful place for a vacation these days.
There is a phenomenon of western liberalism that has a problem with accepting or understanding that the goals and values that they have - rule of law, territorial security, conquest is stupid, prosperity isn’t zero sum - are not universal or shared. When Putin says he regrets the fall of the USSR, he is not talking about economic development policy. He wants a big empire - probably more along the lines of the Romanov state. Either way, that’s not what the Baltics or Poland want. When Iran says “Death to Israel,” it’s not a critique of Israeli policy.
In a country song, you don’t need to get a gun. Everyone already has one.
Putin’s worldview is a lot older than the 19th century. The idea that Russia is surrounded and needs to dominate the Eurasian landmass, and needs a warm water point, has been dominant in Moscow since throwing off the Mongol Golden Horde (great name).
More generally, the idea that might makes right, and that conquest is how nations/states/tribes become great, was pretty much the default view of power until the 20th century. And that was only in the United States and Western European, which used their influence and power to institutionalize the norms that you can’t change borders by force. And it took two world wars and a lot of arm twisting of Europeans by the United States.
I can't believe you forgot the Alamo