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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by throwaway2048 on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:10PM (#21723761)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/955570...

This was a common argument as to why WWI couldn't happen, countries were far too economically dependent, everyone would be ruined.

Except it did happen, and everyone was ruined.

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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by webXL on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:49PM (#21725322)
There were more guns and power mongers than economic ties. Plain and simple. Those arguments should have been qualified a lot more.
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