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> The west was able to control most of the globe due to their advances in weapons How did they secure these advanced weapons without being rich in the first pl
by walkhour 5y ago
> The west was able to control most of the globe due to their advances in weapons
How did they secure these advanced weapons without being rich in the first place? Like the other comments defending this you're confusing cause and effect.
Note there are two other top comments making the same case as this one, so this is not adding much to the discussion and it's forcing it to be in different places.
- yunohn 5y ago> How did they secure these advanced weapons without being rich in the first place? What do you mean by “rich” exactly? This was pre-globalisation - countries would invest in building infrastructure and military by creating it for themselves, with slaves and colonisation at scale.
- mypastself 5y agoMoreover, the notion that their tactics were more “furious” and “brutal” than those employed by other societies seems to be based solely on claims made by those other societies.