Posted on 06/29/2014 3:51:31 PM PDT by kingattax
I think their main motivation was a desire to be a major world power.
Exactly!
Now, they should be a main point of interest for men looking for semi-traditional wives.
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PING to 22.
Yep and that worked out well..
That too, for sure. I think, though, they took a long, hard look at China, and saw how that country was carved up and divided by the Europeans, and said “No effing way are we letting that happen to us...”
So they set about the task of building a massive Navy and Army to prevent even the remotest chance of that happening.
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