Merkel Is Getting Me All Hot And Bothered

[gaelic cowboy]

You seem to have no problem jumping between centuries.

You started the need to be proven on landbased trade which is an old pattern I explained martitme trade makes more money.
Later land based trade can catch up through trains but not as much as newer ships can trade.

In the future the pattern will change again beyond sea trade and into the internet even for manufactured goods. We will desing them on PC's transmit the to a printer and bang I have my new I-POD

It remains to be seen how that will affect the globe but obviously it will be profound.

Both Baltic and Black Sea belong to the Atlantic basin.

Please were not talking some technical geographic term here were talkin about how both choked by enemies and restricted in terms of trade both historically and even currently.

That's where railroads come in handy.

never said they didnt have them but what use are they to Russia who would want there rubbish products, instead there most likely for resource extraction from siberia. Basically It's not my fault they never developed the skills to trade high quality goods through using there natural advantages.

Once Russia actually obtained its Baltic ports after crushing the Swedes, they had no problem with trade, nor did they have to fear blockades.

Really so they could just sail past Germany, Denmark and the UK no problem through the Denmark straits.

They did have a damn good space program... So much for backwardness.

Did I say they couldnt be powerful for a while and that they couldnt send a rocket to space no I didnt. And they were and are still backward in developmental terms America historically could put colour tellys in every house Russia could hardly make black and white ones at the same time.

Now Russia is resource based which is a sensible strategy for a country that has a relatively primitive industrial base compared to it's size.

The Pacific is not a lake, you know. You don't have to have a port there to trade in the region.

So what RVG I did not say you have to have a port there I said you can need a port even for new economy products today and you have actually got one. Just because Software is the now biggest part of the new economy does not mean America does not and did not export actual new economy goods.









I feel now I need to reiterate something here and this will really be the last reply on this subject cos I sick of doing so at this stage.

America grew rich because of various natural advantages in terms of resources size and logistics that it had histroically, this does not preclude that there can be no other strategies in the pursuit of wealth and geopolitical power.

Merely it means that these are the patterns America can follow and did follow, this does not mean however that these advantages are eternal or that they have any moral significance.