my reasoning is this--oceangoing trade way more economical at large volumes; sea powers will always have financial advantage
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where that money advantage coincides with some sort of Vital Spirit that wants to achieve and succeed, you get a world power
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I don't see that spirit in much of the Anglosphere anymore but I'm getting that feeling from Indonesia and Philippines...
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...as well as some stirrings of it in Japan, echoing its pre-WWII drive
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that said--it COULD come back to the UK, USA, etc, I just don't see it right now
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they're trying
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they're blockaded by a string of islands; there's a reason China's empires always expand inland instead of onto islands
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How about air?
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not rly in the same category; you can't transport bulk goods economically by air
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I'm sorry, I was confused I thought about troop movement when you said land and sea :)
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I figured :3 rather, it refers to where powers get most of their trade revenue from--how they *pay* for their troops
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Yea, sea is far more superior than land in that aspect
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