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Re:U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose by barelysapient on Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:37PM (#38121350)
No land-grab expanding empire from history has managed to survive more than a few hundred years. What makes us think that China would?

Communism doesn't have a great track record of building empires that span a millennia.

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Re:U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose by JumpCrisscross on Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:39PM (#38121366)
> No land-grab expanding empire from history has managed to survive more than a few hundred years

i.e. multiple human lifetimes. Carthage and Athens were thriving polities. The potential fruits of their minds were permanently lost.

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Re:U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose by Jensson on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:30PM (#38121909)
> No land-grab expanding empire from history has managed to survive more than a few hundred years. What makes us think that China would?

USA is a land-grab expanding empire, they still exist. Do you think USA will end just because it is the result of massive land grabs and conquest?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

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