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China has a long history of war. The US doesn't even have a long history. Your historical view is zoomed in too far. All large nation states are guilty of aggr
by dtwest 7y ago
China has a long history of war. The US doesn't even have a long history. Your historical view is zoomed in too far.
All large nation states are guilty of aggression, that's how you become a large nation state.
- tharne 7y agoIt's incredible how many people miss this basic point. Land is a fixed quantity. Every square inch a state controls was at some point take from some other state or group of people. Big states were just better at this.
- pm90 7y ago> China has a long history of war. The US doesn't even have a long history. Please don't move the goalposts. We're talking about the current State of China, which came into being in the mid 20th century, and is thus a lot younger than the current US state which traces its founding to around 1776. By that measure, the US has been involved in far, far more invasions and wars than the Chinese state.