--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: E.g., what's up with Scandinavians? Just over a millennium ago, they were the avatars of terrorism; as the Anglo-Saxon prayer went, "May God protect us from the fury of the Northmen!" Today, "Scandinavian" is synonymous with the rule of sweet reason and the welfare state. --
What I don't get is the Japanese. How did this civilization with a rich, independent history -- a WARRIOR, IMPERIAL civilization no less -- become so subservient to the US? The Germans haven't done that. Why don't they boot the US off the goddam island and get their own military?
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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