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  1. 07-14-2012 #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
    Try to subjugate all what the English oppressed by the end of the 19th century and you'd see real quick that the super power U.S.A. is much better at breaking things and killing people than at forcing people.

    All real empires mastered at all three disciplines.
    By those criteria the British Empire wasn’t even an empire, what with indirect rule an’ all that.


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