Thursday, August 09, 2007
 
The Coming Russo-Canadian War
Canada joins rush to claim the Arctic:
    “Our government has an aggressive Arctic agenda,” Dimitri Soudas, Mr Harper’s spokesman, said on Wednesday.

    “The Russians sent a submarine to drop a small flag at the bottom of the ocean. We’re sending our prime minister to reassert Canadian sovereignty,” said a senior government official, according to Canadian press.

    Since the Russian expedition was discovered last month, Mr Harper has faced increasing pressure to fight back.
The twenty-first century promises to be as odd as all the others that preceded it. I mean, it almost takes a suspension of disbelief to believe that the French once dominated Continental Europe with its army or that the Belgians had colonies. Looking forward to the 21st century, how many other almost inconceivable things remain to come.


- posted by Brian J. @ 1:29 PM
Comments:
I recently read Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873, and the following statement really jumped out at me:

"...the military profession is as much respected in Japan as it is despised in China..."
# posted by Blogger gimlet : Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:38:00 PM
 


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