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To: Sopater
“[t]he distance of the United States from the powerful nations of the world”—the Atlantic oceanic moat—would provide a first line of defense.

The game changed forever once that stopped being the case. Once steam replaced sails, the "distance" between the United States and its potential enemies became much shorter, and subsequent advances in means and speed of travel have made it progressively shorter.

5 posted on 01/24/2018 1:01:58 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS
The game changed forever once that stopped being the case

I don't think it has really stopped being the case... yet.
6 posted on 01/24/2018 1:03:57 PM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: WayneS
and subsequent advances in means and speed of travel have made it progressively shorter.

And the de-linking of speed of travel with speed of communicating.

-PJ

16 posted on 01/25/2018 1:59:38 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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