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The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

I’m really curious as to what the shooter’s motives are. Abe was a known Ultranationalist.

Also, it took place in Nara, which I only know as the city with the temple with all the deer.
 
aparch said:
Meanwhile, Russian State TV pines for Trump to return to office, are conflicted if Russian assets should wait until after the November elections to gum things up, or if they should "start stirring the pot now."

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1545161423583690755
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My Qtard friends still believe Trump was "hard" on Russia. I said that must be why they want him re-elected so badly - for the tough love he gave them.
 
TIL Bismarck radically restricted German expansion.

+ Christian IX of Denmark offered King Wilhelm I of Prussia to make Denmark part of the German Confederation in 1864, with the formal transfer of Iceland from Denmark to Germany
+ Costa Rica and several Caribbean islands offered to host large German naval bases
+ Several Sultans in Malaysia and the East African coast asked for German colonial protection against other European powers
+ Venezuela and Guyana offered to sell islands to Germany
+ Private businessmen in Paraguay, Chile, Peru, and Brazil arranged for biliateral treaties exchanging German military presence for economic concessions
+ Mexico solicited German diplomats with an offer of naval bases in Baja California

In all cases, Bismarck threw his weight against the proposals, feeling they were either distracting, not cost effective, or would embroil Germany in unnecessary conflicts. When Bismarck was removed these policies gradually changed. Around the turn of the century the Germans even had plans to invade Somalia directly, while indirectly dominating South American commerce in the style of the Greek control of Ionia. They even had plans to shell NYC and Norfolk and then occupy Puerto Rico and Cuba, but by then the US has significantly increased navy size and competence so the Kaiser demurred, and then the Entente Cordiale gave him Bigger Problems To Worry About.
 
Makes sense. Germany had enough problems to deal with internally at the start, and they needed time to build up militarily, especially navally, before they could take on a group of foreign European rivals. And while KWI did a great job of listening to Bismarck as needed and ended up the better for it, KWII was a bit of a dick and wanted to do his own thing, so he got rid of Bismarck and then pushed Germany too much in a direction that raised the ire of the other powers pre-WWI.

I remember some story at a funeral, I think for Edward VII, where KWII got in a big fight with all of the other heads of state over where he should get to march in the procession. And he went out of his way to help someone, I think maybe the late king's wife, out of a carriage to make himself look big, and she basically rolled her eyes at it while he was doing it because she (and most others there) could not stand him personally.
 
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