While true regarding historical claims from no longer existent peoples, you have contested the point, I would elucidate. Hence the Israeli claim to the land being recognized by most nations, as they are able to control their territory, one of the mandatory requisites for actually being a nation. There are many others of course, but there are also many groups that consider themselves coherent polities that don't qualify.
As for Constantinople, don't count it out. The transgressions of the Turks have yet to be repaid.
If we didn't sell them weapons the French probably would. They'd certainly be less economically prosperous without our handouts but let's not pretend like we're the only arms dealers in the world.
Certainly not no. Fabrique Nationale moves more inventory in terms of GDP than we do, it's just that France's economy is smaller than ours. For crying out loud dude the French were still selling anti aircraft rockets to the Taliban two entire years after we invaded them lol. The Chinese are just as bad, they hock their knockoff AKs all over the southern hemisphere.
F/N isn't subsidized or underwritten by NATO either, by the way. They haven't been for decades since they don't abide by NATO doctrine on a bunch of things, most notably those ridiculous bullpup rifles they invented a while back. The sole thing the French can do is manufacture NATO standard 5.56 ammunition, that's about it. For all their myriad of faults the French actually deserves some respect for actually maintaining some military independence of both us and Brussels.
While true regarding historical claims from no longer existent peoples, you have contested the point, I would elucidate. Hence the Israeli claim to the land being recognized by most nations, as they are able to control their territory, one of the mandatory requisites for actually being a nation. There are many others of course, but there are also many groups that consider themselves coherent polities that don't qualify.
As for Constantinople, don't count it out. The transgressions of the Turks have yet to be repaid.
If we didn't sell them weapons the French probably would. They'd certainly be less economically prosperous without our handouts but let's not pretend like we're the only arms dealers in the world.
Certainly not no. Fabrique Nationale moves more inventory in terms of GDP than we do, it's just that France's economy is smaller than ours. For crying out loud dude the French were still selling anti aircraft rockets to the Taliban two entire years after we invaded them lol. The Chinese are just as bad, they hock their knockoff AKs all over the southern hemisphere.
F/N isn't subsidized or underwritten by NATO either, by the way. They haven't been for decades since they don't abide by NATO doctrine on a bunch of things, most notably those ridiculous bullpup rifles they invented a while back. The sole thing the French can do is manufacture NATO standard 5.56 ammunition, that's about it. For all their myriad of faults the French actually deserves some respect for actually maintaining some military independence of both us and Brussels.
The Chinese manage it by themselves in terms of their domestic arms industry, because they've been preparing to fight us since the 90s.