And if India officially changes its name to Bharat internationally, Pakistan will totally change its name to India.

Only because Lemmy is small enough to not need it.

It isn’t the worst, but I would evaluate why you need to retake two classes and how it might your life going forward.

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Not really. The creation of a lot of early monarchies were based on the military taking control of an area, then distributing portions of the area to key military members as a way to buy loyalty.

In contrast, fascism usually requires a corruption of a democracy and has different reasons for forming.

What happens if the power goes out now? We’re already going to be in a very degraded living situation with battery backups providing a minimum amount of connectivity.

Europe didn’t have much in raw materials that China wanted and China wouldn’t trade for manufactured goods. So, most trade with China involved silver or gold. In an effort to address this trade imbalance, the British started shipping opium as a way to have another trade good for Chinese export.

Hollywood is also running into an issue where streaming has killed the profit model for a lot of movies & TV shows and no one knows what the replacement will look like.

And Hollywood doesn’t have a problem getting talent for cheap. That’s part of the reason why so many productions are across North America.

The reason I’ve seen is that Lucas’s flaws were on display in the prequels since he had the kind of power to make decisions with little pushback, while production of the original trilogy shows that Lucas worked best with people around him to help refiine his vision.

Outside of Ian McDiarmid and Ewan McGregor, the acting is bland and sterile. Hayden Christensen had a far better idea that would lead to the fall of Skywalker without changing much of the films. Major sequences are far busier than anything which came before, making the sequences pretty but less resonant and hard to follow. The four separate storylines in the climax of I was too much, especially as most people were there for the best lightsaber duel ever. The camera work for talking scenes is shockingly basic for someone as talented as Lucas was with film.

I like the prequels well enough, but I can see why some don’t like them.

The prequels are bad because it highlights Lucas’s failures as a director and dialogue writer.

The prequels are memorable because they highlight Lucas’s talents as a producer and whatever equivalent to show runner that movie franchises have.

They would be if they were good.

Disney should have known to create an overall writer/producer for the sequels; they had done it Marvel and the thing that set Star Wars above other sci-fi was Lucas creating a deep universe for the stories to exist in.

Abrams was a shitty choice to control writing of VII; he basically made a Star Wars fan film and reset a lot of VI to keep the same kind of conflict as the original series. Johnson had some interesting ideas, but he broke a lot of previous world building for VIII, like the Resistance militia leaders keeping their plan a secret and the kamekaze ship. Then, somehow, Abrams returned.

It says something that, while the prequels aren’t seen as good as the original series, they still resonate in a way that the sequels haven’t. A lot of that can be attributed to why Lucas was a great producer.

I look at the Suez Crisis more as a symbol of the shift in power. Maybe there is an example out there, but I can’t think of a similar humiliation that the UK had to deal with regarding having to pull out of a diplomatic crisis by the threat of a single ally/power since the Concert of Europe was implemented.

There is a lot to talk about regarding imperial powers in the Middle East, but I’m focusing more on the idea where power shifted from the UK to the USA.

Why would I want to prove that it is real. I’d go full Connecticut Yankee and build a modern empire with me at the head.

cementing the US as Israel’s main backer, and destroying what good will remained for France and Britain in the Middle East.

I’m going to quibble with this line.

It isn’t like the Suez Crisis made the USA Israel’s main backer, but that Israel realized it needed the USA rather than the UK or France. Israel had to invest a lot in shaping American foreign policy to benefit it.

Second, it isn’t like the UK and France had goodwill in the Middle East. Instead, this was the major rejection of the two imperial powers which diminished their role in the Middle East since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. From that point on, other nations and political groups in the Middle East knew that the USA had a credible veto on British and French imperial action in the area.

We’re seeing the beginnings of further European integration. Who knows, there may even be an EU military in the future.

While everyone is talking about World War II, it is kind of important to discuss what led the USA to become capable of taking over.

First, the USA was a giant as a successor nation to American colonization. It had significant natural resources, a relatively easily navigable interior, and a budding industrial sector. Unlike Spanish colonies, the USA had pretty good national institutions where wealth could be created.

After the War of 1812, the UK had already shifted its strategic approach to the USA. The UK would allow the USA to be a local hegemon as long as the USA respected existing British colonial claims. This led to the Monroe Doctrine, partially enforced by the UK. There were also a lot of cases where the UK chose not to press claims to antagonize the USA. This included a peaceful solution to the Oregon Territory crisis and not participating in the French invasion of Mexico.

The USA was considered to be a rising great power by the end of the 19th century, including destroying the remnants of the Spanish Empire. Many nations recognized that the USA benefited from the same geographical features that the UK did, with the homeland being far removed from any other competing power.

The USA could have credibly become the leading great power after World War I had the USA not chosen to go into isolation after the war. By then, it was apparent that the USA had a military and economy to be a major international player, but the US Republican Party didn’t want to agree to the international commitments.

So, by the end of World War II, the USA was already the preminent economic power for at least a generation. The USA was then able to build a military capable of fighting a two front war while supplying many of its allies in the war. Meanwhile, the UK was seeing its empire fall apart and knew it couldn’t afford to be the international leader. Choosing between the USA and USSR, the UK chose the USA.

I have the perfect hands to be a surgeon.

Well, people aren’t expecting salsa holandesa.

Given that domesticated animals adopted some human baby like actions, it is a plausible theory.

My post isn’t bait. We’ve gone through the process with HR and then found that the applicant may not have work authorization.