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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: arun gera who wrote (57986)	11/16/2009 2:11:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219977

Adventurers have always adventured. When there isn't actually fighting, people are generally welcoming of visitors and trade and women enjoy the mating prospects with fascinating strange men. <Trade has been going on for 3000 years internationally. > But when trade was done on camels, donkeys and carried by hand or cart and horse, international trade was nominal. A single container ship can take hundreds of years of trade from when Genghis visited doom on his far flung empire. When Hindus were battling survival over the Hindu Kush, they weren't carrying goods in freight train quantities in either direction. International trade only became the norm in recent times. Only 100 years ago, nearly all goods and services were produced and consumed with few miles on the clock. That was the nature of rural agrarian life as it was nearly everywhere other than in the industrial revolution countries. Conquest and plunder has been the norm since humans were chimps. Bulk trade is a modern innovation. Contraception has put paid to genocidal conquest, plunder, rape, pillaging, confiscation and territorial expansion. There aren't enough spare blokes, though China, India, Africa and Islamic Jihad realms could rustle up hordes of low value males to man the ranks. Moslems seem to be the last group to think it a good idea to make territorial genocidal gains. There are a few border skirmishings to be resolved, but India and China don't really want to go nuclear over a portion of the Himalayas. Pakistan and India don't wish for substantial population reductions to resolve possession of Kashmir [though Islamic Jihad will use any excuse to carry on]. China doesn't want to try out their military prowess over Taiwan [it's much more pleasant for Red Soldiers to march around towns in China bullying the helpless local yokels and killing anyone who dares open their mouth against or wave a flag in protest at China's kleptocratic totalitarianism]. Irish Catholics are still jihading against England. Maoris still reckon they have more money due for breaches of contract. Sioux and other locals in the USA and Canada dispute property rights but wish, of course, to keep their passports. There are plenty of disputes, but mostly they are rearguard skirmishings as historical wrongs are resolved and peripheries tied up. Sir Francis Drake was one of 12 sons so there were plenty of them spare. Families in China have had 1 son or none for decades. They don't want that one son going off and getting killed for no good reason. Mqurice