[Gothmog]

Please ignore that last bit at the end of post #309. I was thinking about poking fun at your childish attitude, thought better of it, but forgot to delete it.

[Tokhtamish]

That's all right.

In 1900 Joseph Chamberlain was trying to make complacent British elites understand that they needed to shift from "free trade" to defend their industrial base. But of course those with your mentality in the British elite refused to see. Well, Britain was mortally wounded when its industrial base could not meet the demands of the First World War. All the accumulated wealth of the Victorian age went to buy American arms. So you needn't defend or explain yourself to me. I understand the mentality of complacent, late imperial rot.

Maybe when you are older and have learnt something about history you will understand this.