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Since when does conquest have to benefit just one party to be called conquest? If Russia and China split the US amongst themselves, would you call it conquest?
by PavlovsCat 13y ago
Since when does conquest have to benefit just one party to be called conquest? If Russia and China split the US amongst themselves, would you call it conquest?
- rayiner 13y agoDid we split Iraq amongst the U.S., France, Germany, the U.K., Canada, Australia, etc? When many beneficiaries are involved, a military action seems less like conquest and more like an attempt to maintain a certain balance of powers.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago"maintain a certain balance of powers" and "conquest" are not mutually exclusive. "many" really just means "more than one", but okay: if 50 nations invaded and split up the US, would that be conquest?