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AGGRESSOR STATES 3

The Vikings were a fishing tribe with some agriculture who were a few degrees of longitude removed from herding reindeer finally coming on their own once they decided that plunder was the way to go and they used their frozen northern base as a staging ground to safely expand to the warmer, softer civilized regions ( or, what passed for civilized, the Papists sending out slightly less filthy and vermin infested missionaries to tax and frighten much dirtier and infested savages hugging trees ).  Of course, the coastal settlements Rome set up to spread their empire came under direct assault as the Catholics somehow had figured out how to slowly but surely guilt the newly converted into turning over all the silver that kept getting unearthed as treasure from the earlier die-off was discovered.  The Vikings were drawn to loot and murder at churches like flies are summoned to a picnic ( the aerial   germ clusters seemingly delighting to landing on the lightest colored food almost as if taunting the revolted and nauseous Germ-X grabbing masses ).  And of course, their reputation just went south from there.  Now, do you really think becoming aggressive harmed those northern Europeans?  Sure, eventually they ran out of coastal areas accessible by their craft that could still be plundered, or ran out of time as armies gathered or military technology changed, or what have you.  But they went from poor peasants in a northern wasteland to far richer warriors in a still northern wasteland ( personally, I prefer northern wastelands.  In a world teeming with asshattery, at least the north fills up butt hole to elbow far slower ).  As did several of their following generations.  While it lasted it was a sweet deal.  Should it have never been implemented to avoid the eventual disappointment?

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Japan did pretty well for itself, considering how relatively resource poor they are.  Probably too poor to seriously expand into Asian until recently.  Becoming an empire is kind of like getting rich.  Just as you must first have money to make money ( kindly don’t pull some libertarian fantasy rags to riches BS out of your ass.  We all can pretty much concede that improbability, or at least acknowledge it as being the exception that proves the rule ), so too do you first need resources to get more resources.  Please look at the two premier military powers today.  That both started resource abundant ( I discount China, who really hasn’t risen past its merchant class roots ).  Japan never really had enough to play that rich nations game, but she tried and did Damn Skippy well for how little she had going for her besides a tremendous work ethic, and one of the rare larger homogenous populations able to work nearly as well as smaller close knit groups.  Those two attributes got her occupying Manchuria and Korea and coastal China, a lot of islands and acting as a thorn in the Soviets side ( if Japan had made any serious motions towards Russia at all many troops never would have been freed to go fight on the western front, which is why it made sense for Japan to be an Axis power from Hitler’s viewpoint ).  It is interesting to speculate how differently things would have gone if that vile twat FDR hadn’t goaded Japan into attacking us, trading hundreds of thousands of lives for the chance to emulate his hero Stalin ( still to this day getting Mad Props for Best Mustache Of All Time ) and play dictator, but more likely than not they could have made empire work, even if at a reduced scale.  They gave it a go, and it could have lasted a lot longer.  Continued next article.

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