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If the bigger country always won, the world would be one giant stable empire ruling over everyone for the last ten thousand years. Ukraine is fighting Russia w
by nitwit005 2y ago
If the bigger country always won, the world would be one giant stable empire ruling over everyone for the last ten thousand years.
Ukraine is fighting Russia without other nation's armies directly joining them. Taiwan's allies have most of the globe's naval power.
- roenxi 2y agoIt isn't a question of whether China would win, it is the certainty that Taiwan would lose. And regardless, that isn't the reason why large empires are unstable. Through history big countries tend to win but large agglomerations tend to dissolve for economic concerns. That is what happened in the largest imperial dissolutions in history (British, Mongols) which weren't because of a defeat by an external power or because they had any trouble conquering small powers. Or the most recent with things like the USSR. Large empires tend to lose through military victories and bad economic strategy.