2013-01-31, 13:55 | Link #4041 |
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Just read the original article in Chinese.
Well... Just as you thought China was moving towards the direction of a modernized industrial super power... it pulls a stunt like this... from none other than a government sanctioned newspaper. Or to be exact... the Chinese Defense Department. Woe is China... woe... And this is a country spending approximately half as much as the US on the military. - Tak
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2013-01-31, 14:01 | Link #4043 |
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That is an excerpt from China's defense magazine. Its talking about the modifications done to the Mauser C96 by a certain Russian collector.
The entire page is filled with anti-Japanese sentiment & very racist language. It is not a very healthy thing to read... What is extra funny, the article on GuP criticizes the animation for being a covert attempt to restart militarism... yet this is coming from a country that has been on this track for as long as I can remember. I have seen terrible stuff coming out from China's internet community. GuP is absolutely nothing compared to their rampant BS. But this makes me wonder... what would happen if the same people reviewed Moe-Moe Nazis? - Tak
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That's pretty hilarious. It's interesting that their objection is to Girls und Panzer considering all the better candidates out there. I guess the show's pretty popular in China.
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Hell, the US in the 30s certainly was no military power. And Canada? Nah. Though they are both perfectly industrialized nations. That being said, of course most people, even Chinese people would ridicule this crap. But to have a hilarity like this published by a government agency is in no way, shape or form a method to garner respect for that government. In fact, it just backfired again like it always does and do more to expose the hypocrisy that is the Chinese government. Of course, this is also an agency that fabricated a fictional story to flame Chinese nationalism during the Senkaku island crisis. - Tak
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Please keep in mind though that the U.S. army was tiny prior to WW1 as well. The massive size of the population made boosting those numbers very easy though ..
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2013-01-31, 16:01 | Link #4051 |
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Experts believed that the naval arms races pretty much decided in the 1920s that the US and UK were going to be the next logical enemies over trade and economic reasons. Save that these experts never did find any reason to spark hostility between the two powers in the wake of the Great War outside of building large battleships (which the US could do and the UK could no longer afford, but would attempt to maintian status as the largest naval power in the world. As it had been for the last several hundred years).
Instead the Americans decided to end the arms race and called in the naval powers to Washington and they hammered out a treaty that ended battleship construction for the UK, US, and Japan for over a decade. (Italy and France stopped for about a decade, but rearming of Germany's navy changed that even before the rise of the Nazi Government). And the US had plans to invade or counter everybody and anybody. It was just what military planners did.
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Contributed almost 500,000 soldiers just two decades later--only this time, pumping out a veritable flood of tanks, artillery, fighters, bombers, trucks, and ships of all sizes. 3rd largest naval power in 1945, best record for U-boot killing and again the best Ace-producing nation in the Commonwealth. Conqueror of Ortona, Breacher of the Gothic Line, Hitler Line, and Liberator of Holland and Denmark. All this achieved while having volunteer-soldiers comprise >90% for both wars. Canadians not quite militaristic? Canadian Military strength not particularly high? Nah, bro. Canada was extremely militaristic back then. In some communities, their entire social lives revolved around the militia. One particular gentleman even bankrolled an entire regiment for WWI from his own pocket, to be used by the federal government. (British) Canadians were extremely proud of the Empire and they were hell-bent on doing their part. Just because a nation does not have a large standing army does not mean they can't be militaristic--just like the USA or the UK for that matter. Canada=Awesome (former) militant power. Embrace it. |
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^ Oh, I love Canada and am very proud of the country's contributions over the course of history, but the specific topic was: "Canada was never a great power.."
That is tough to debate against because we're not talking about relative contribution based on circumstances but aggregate comparative power. Despite my pride, when I look at all these assembled facts, I do so with cold dead and dispassionate eyes.
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I don't know about you guys, but I am going to take a breather and play my RAM-II...
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But hot-damn, when Macross Frontier was airing... the way Ranka was crapped on by the Chinese community? Oh boy... - Tak (Oh Kanada... our home and native land...)
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AND you had Scotty!
That's right, James Doohan landed on the Canadian beach at Normandy, and got part of one of his fingers shot off by a German machinegun. No wonder Scotty was never scared of Kirk. |
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The Canadian based team won't be much different than Saunders. Mostly M4 Sherman varients (including Grizzly tanks and Firefly tanks), M3 Stuart light tanks, and some early Churchills. The Rams never saw combat, but are in most ways essentally M4 Shermans (a large turret on a M3 Lee hull in concept)
A Dutch based school would be Rams though. They got some near the end of the war to form their first armored units from what I understand.
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