Quote Originally posted by Warmaker:
All I know is that Perry shelled the Japanese and forced them to allow foreign ships to use Japanese ports.

Just an example of how isolationism can hurt real bad... You can't keep the world away, since it will come knocking (or kicking) on your door sooner or later...

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We say that as if it's the fault of the guy who got beaten up when we go around (as modern nation-states) beating people up when we don't get our way, but then when runners-up try to beef up defenses against this sort of gunboat diplomacy we call it an aggressive arms buildup... ya can't win.




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