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I'm not sure lh320 is actually advocating that position.  Rather, I think he's just pointing out that if the USA were just an average ordinary nation "just chugging along," then there'd be less capability to deliver aid to foreign countries and we'd be best off just keeping whatever limited resources we'd have in that scenario, to ourselves. 

Sure you can.

Tastes like chicken.

According to some hunting buddies it tasted like wool sox from the Ice Shanty with the consistency of boot leather that had rancid fat rendered over it.I didn't ask how they knew what those other things tasted like

I've pondered before how history might have been better had the Germans won WW One.  They would have taken another slice of France probably and had dominance over central Europe no doubt.  The Kaiser would have stayed in power.  No Hitler.  The US could have stayed out of both.

People always seem to leave the British Crown off of the hook,prolly because we speak English and German sounds grating .What was it the one Holy Roman Emporer said "I speak Latin to God,Italian to men,French to women and German to my horse." According to the history I've been told is the Royal Navy in WWI had blockaded the Northern German ports and cut the trans atlantic telegraph line to the USA.Hampering communication efforts between the two countries as the US was fed the British version of everything.Between being starved for food and supplies and the reparations from the treaty of Versailles had horrendous consequences for the Central powers and Germany in particular.It greased the skids for the economic collapse that followed leading to civil unrest.The countries children born after 1919 were famished and indeed the coming years grew up much smaller than previous generations.These are the kids that grew up to be soldiers in WWII

 I don't know much about WWI or what led to it outside of the ArchDuke Ferdinand getting whacked in the Balkans.But it was explained to me by a history teacher years ago that WWII sprung fom WWI which sprang from centuries of European Kingdoms colliding, reforming and colliding again and so on and so forth.So not sure one side was all right or all wrong but one was definitely left to foot the butchers bill .So when the chattering ebola chimp Adolph weaseled past the Proletariat telling the digruntled things they wanted to hear as the economy started picking up they were all ears.They couldn't know at the time little by little he was leading them to Dante's Inferno

The Guns of August is a very readable book about the origins of WW One.  Part of the issue, a large part, were the security agreements between various nations that collided.  Britain for example had guaranteed Belgium, and the German Schlieffen plan involved a wheel attack through Belgium into the French proper.  Russia had guaranteed Serbia, Austria wanted to punish Serbia.  Germany was on the side of Austria.  France was on the side of Russia.  Dominoes.  

A weird thing is that the King of England, the Kaiser, and the Tsar, had the same grandmother, they were first cousins.  

The Terms Kaiser and Tsar come from Caesar, which in latin is pronounced with a hard C, Kaiser.

A weird thing is that the King of England, the Kaiser, and the Tsar, had the same grandmother, they were first cousins.

😎 never knew that Hatfields/McCoys.Speaking of McCoy got a book on DB Cooper and I'm convinced this was the guy.
DB Cooper,The Real McCoy only a few pages in but picked it up after watching quite a few YT videos

I went up to Ohio State for nine years to interview for the company and write reports.  It was "interesting".  They had a famous professor named Leo Paquette who had a group of 39 people at one point, that is way too many, and he had to use post docs to superview the grad students.  Predictably, they got into some sort of a mess.

I quit once the company started with quotas.  The students were 95% white males and Asian males and we were told we had to hire more diversity folks.  There were two black PhDs NATIONALLY that year and the goal was to hire both, sight unseen.  I think they did hire one.  I went back under my rock.

According to some hunting buddies it tasted like wool sox from the Ice Shanty with the consistency of boot leather that had rancid fat rendered over it.I didn't ask how they knew what those other things tasted like

I'll admit I've never tasted groundhog, I was just goofing around.  I've also never tasted wool socks or boot leather or rancid fat (that I know of).