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1. augustus pugin ? (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 07:28:43 JST augustus pugin ?
   Obviously shouldn't underestimate China, but I struggle to see them ever being a successful military power given their history of being weak and timid and mercantile
   • sage (mono@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 07:28:42 JST sage

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     @augustus china stronk, unironically. france tier stronk
     
     https://greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com/
   • sage (mono@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 07:30:20 JST sage

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     • sage
     @augustus imagine a small highly professional gunpowder army marching back and forth across the continent to fight horse fuckers and jungle fuckers and having to invent completely new ways of killing people to deal with a ridiculous variety of enemies.
   • augustus pugin ? (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 07:37:42 JST augustus pugin ?

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     • sage
     @mono having Mongols on your doorstep must have been a fckin nightmare
   • sage (mono@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 07:37:42 JST sage

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     @augustus
     
     > A particularly extreme example came in 1555, when according to Ming records, a mere 60 pirates in a single ship landed in Nanjing. The city and its surrounding area was nominally garrisoned by 120,000 troops. Despite this, these 60 pirates encountered little resistance for the next three months, when they looted and burned towns around the area, killing four thousand people and rampaging over a thousand miles before the government could muster the strength to crush them.
     
     This must be what it feels like to be in a post decline empire. Like living in Portland Oregon