Vutulaki-san wrote:Turanian Trashtalker wrote:Vutulaki-san wrote:"so the idea was to conceal the entire nation from the rest of the world."
Thats about as retarded as fan deaths and pumping oxygen into the sunken hull of the MV Sewol in case there were still survivors.
It worked. Your point?
At a terrible cost, but the king was pretty tired of barbarians coming in raping, killing, and looting, and China was under control by nomads
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Rendering the country a sub saharan shithole isnt "working " its like burning all your belongings and boasting that youre never gonna be robbed.
It also created possibly the most insular jingoistic ethnicity on earth. Mixing with other cultures is good. Look what Greece and Italy gave the world. Similar sized countries to a unified Korea.
Dont take anything I say to heart like ive said I give my people a wide fucking berth for a reason.
lol
look at greece today.
i'm just saying they had a very few glorious centuries (the best the world has ever seen from any culture, probably) and now they're second rate Turks essentially. Their economy will be screwed for a very, very long time.
Italy is cool but nearly all the industry, fashion, and creativity exists in the north.. Think of Ferrara, Prada, Gucci, Lamborghini, Parmalat, Maserati, etc. Northerners do EVERYTHING. That's the area where people mongrelized with Germans.
Southerners are half-Arab and they've got nothing but food, essentially.
So you're saying crayons should breed with Som Pong's people to improve their gene pool? I'm not sure that's a solution.
1) I think it was a retarded solution too but i understand why they did it. Japan razed the entire peninsula from top to bottom. We won the first time fair and square, the second time, we got tons of help from China and the Chinese ended up killing a bunch of civilians too (fuck them). Nobody was was sure whether or not the Japs would invade again, or when.
the ONLY why they didn't invade again was because they feared reprisals from China, which brings me to step 2:
2) Staring from the 17th century, China was under control by Manchus, who waged war against all their neighbors and committed multiple genocides... They slaughtered 80% of the Dzungar Mongols, including women and children, because they wouldn't submit to their leader. They fought a war against the Sikhs in India for fuck's sake.
When both your neighbors are crazy and committed to destroying you, you don't have a lot of good options.. i mean you can build up your military, but what's the point if you're going to get ass raped again? you're screwed no matter what you do.