[HN Gopher] Mega-wars that shaped world history
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       Mega-wars that shaped world history
        
       Author : anarbadalov
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2020-03-27 12:34 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | JumpCrisscross wrote:
       | *since ~1796, in case anyone else went searching for the Punic
       | Wars.
        
       | LifeLiverTransp wrote:
       | Nothing unleashes the stranglehold of the market and its
       | corruption contracts, then the panic of the "elite".
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       | They could loose it all when the neighbours come marching in. War
       | and civil war, were the great innovators.
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       | Even the cold war delivered on this. As soon as it was over, the
       | mildew of the gilded age and its aristocratic sentiment settled
       | again.
        
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