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The history of thalassocracies has always been one of sea dominance, as the name itself implies. However, whenever they become too powerful, they all seem to make one persistent mistake – trying to go against tellurocracies or land powers on their home turf. Even then, thalassocracies usually realize just how hopelessly outclassed they are in such a fight, so they resort to cunning strategies of pushing one tellurocracy against another, an approach that sometimes results in conflicts of global proportions, with devastating consequences for anyone but the sea powers themselves. So far, land powers have been the most unfortunate in […] #Asia #Featured #Government #Military Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/how-chinas-naval-strategy-exposes-decades-of-americas-sinophobic-lies/?feed_id=11903

Russophobia has always been present in the political West. Whether it’s simply the fear of a near-peer adversary or perhaps the age-old sea power (thalassocracy) vs. a land power (tellurocracy) competition, the fact is that the belligerent power pole really does not like Russia, to put it mildly. Moscow has been trying to find common ground with the political West for centuries. However, that seems all but impossible, as the latter stubbornly refuses to engage with the Eurasian giant. It can even be argued that this has been the defining characteristic of European and global geopolitics, pushing the “old continent” […] #Featured #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/uk-brags-about-direct-involvement-in-attacking-russian-navy-ships/?feed_id=9547

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What happened to Flight 19 and the Search Plane that Disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle?

On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission and the search plane carrying 14 crew disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle

17 sailors were killed and 38 wounded in the attack carried out by two suicide terrorists