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Glad to share knowledge of my history... Yes, in many cases, the Brits used force to get what they wanted.
He is trying to tell us that the chinese like getting high. I know a few asian people around here too and they really do like getting high.
Not sure what the point of the thread is, i guess it's a history lesson, but it was not only the brits who used force during the imperialistic era. it was basically every world power during that time till WWII. btw, China has one of the fastest growing economies in the world today.
China isn't communist! :blink: PWN! The brits have nothing nowadays. If they get attacked, they can only rely on their navy, airforce, and some police force.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaySt...tory_id=2668015 just cause china is communist doesn't mean that china can not affect the world. so if you want to say "PWN!", dish out something other than that china is communist.
Meh... Britain is an island. All they need are guards and a police force to control the whole thing. Of course, they have lost their army, so the people are just part of the navy and airforce. If they get attacked, America would have to help them. But since the army is in Iraq, Britain would be TOTAL OWNAGED if someone (like germany) decides to attack them.
"The British Army had a reported strength of 112,700 in 2004, including 7,600 women, and the Royal Air Force a strength of 53,400. The 40,900-member Royal Navy is in charge of the United Kingdom's independent strategic nuclear arm, which consists of four Trident Ballistic Missile Submarines, while the Royal Marines provide infantry units for amphibious assault and for specialist reinforcement forces in and beyond the NATO area. This puts total active duty military troops in the 210,000 range, currently deployed in over 80 countries." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom#Military britain does have an army that can hold its own and why would germany attack britain? this isn't WWII.
Now thats a really sucky army... I mean even after WWI Germany was allowed to have an army of 500000 people. And why is brit army deployed over 80 countries? Well thats simple... IT STILL HAVE COLONIES... Simple... And Germany is awesome... They were able to kick the rest of Europe's ass TWICE... They only lost because America came in... Russia was also strong... But spies killed communism... Whats so bad about communism? It's just horrible when trying to enforce it. Why was America so afraid of it?
This is a fantastic thread of misinformation. China isn't communist huh? Explain why until last week Google wasn't allowed in China, and even now trying to search for Tiananmen Square won't be allowed. D'you remember Tiananmen Square, or was that before your time? The majority of the British Forces are deployed in other countries at bases (yep, including Germany) - we're not at war with anyone, not even Iraq officially. We no longer have colonies. There are British Commonwealth countries, but we don't have colonies, no matter how much you use capslock. Germany is no longer 'awesome'. Its economy in the 90s was fantastic but it's really slid since. It didn't 'kick ass' in WWII and certainly not in WWI. And it's hardly going to attack Britain as it no longer has a mass-murdering Austrian for a dictator.
last time I checked, Germany was too kicking ass in WWI until it decided to ---- with the 300million soviets in freezingland and get their asses frozen off and start a two front war against an enemy which had been allied with them. Seriously, if Germany waited to F with the soviets until after it finished off the Brits I'd probably be speaking German right now. Ich haast krauts. on another note, in WWI, if the brits joined the Germans and owned the fernch the world would be better, no more french, nazism and facism never would have come about and no freaking bolsheviks.
yes, china is communist. it's been communist ever since mao zedong formed the people's republic of china after defeating chiang kai-shek and the chinese nationalist. the government is communist, but the economy is slowly being transformed into a model of capitalism (note article posted above). why was america so scared of communism? the arm's race? the cold war? the space race? we feared that the soviet union, not the principles of communism, would rise and become the dominate world power during the mid twentith century. it has always been about power.
