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quim

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FairAndUnbiased said:
Byzantium had guns and cannon too. It was not anywhere near a big of a technological change as industrialization where mere decades of differences could separate victory from defeat.

Spain and Holy Roman Empire lost the 30 years war too.
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With America's resources, Spain fought on five fronts and effectively stopped the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. The only reason the Habsburgs did not recreate the Roman Empire was because France and Portugal (also colonial powers) united with Britain, the Ottomans and the Netherlands to avoid it and divided Europe.
 
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According to reports, the first responders and PAP are pilling huge effort towards holding the 2nd line of defense around 2 kilometers downstream of the breach.

They have pretty much abandoned any efforts at blocking the breach at the original site.
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Xinhua News Agency just sent a report: Soldiers, firefighters, cadres and the masses are "doing their best to defend the second line of defense."
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"Chen Wenping, who has more than 30 years of experience in water conservancy work, is an expert that everyone relies on. He told reporters that the flood at the breach is difficult to stop, and the top priority is to urgently build a second line of defense, which is about two kilometers away from the breach.
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The dike, this earth embankment runs between Tuanzhou Embankment and Qiannan Embankment.
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"The most important task tonight is to strengthen this embankment and prevent the flood from breaking through the second line of defense and flooding Qiannan Embankment." Wenping said.
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taxiya

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A massive dike breach has occured at Dongting Lake, Yueyang City, Hunan Province this afternoon, flooding vast swaths of fields and villages at lower elevation. They attempted to use trucks carrying sand and gravel to block the breach, however that didn't work.

【湖南一处洞庭湖大堤发生重大险情，地方正在处置险情和转移人员，卡车以“沉车裹头”方式堵缺口】
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Unfortunately, the breach has been growing in size (latest update puts the width of breach at more than 100 meters). According to reports, ~5000 residents living nearby have been evacuated.

Just now, the first PAP units have also arrived in the disaster area.

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Unfortunately a mostly man-made disaster since the past 600 hundred years.
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The flooded areas are part of the lake at verious points of past.

The size of the lake reduced from more than 6000 sqkm in Qing dynasty to 2820 sqkm of 1998. PRC recovered it back to pre-PRC size of 3900 sqkm. Don't know if that is enough though.
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Seems that it will take China decades or hundreds years to "undo" or "remedy" what we have done in the previous hundreds years.
 
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Some news about Miles Guo / Kwok.... Apparently the case against him is that he scam 1 billion USD from many Hanjians and right wingers into investing into some media/streaming/crypto business. Much of the money is burnt away on Miles fake billionare lifestyle and online trolls. According to prosecutor:

“Miles Guo ran a simple con on a grand scale,” Fergenson said. “He lived a billionaire’s lifestyle using money he stole from people he tricked and cheated.”

Prosecutors argue Guo’s whole shtick is bogus – that he is neither a real dissident or really rich. Fergenson suggested on Friday that Guo’s movement and complaints against the CCP are, instead, a story he created to win the trust of followers before fleecing them.
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daifo said:
Some news about Miles Guo / Kwok.... Apparently the case against him is that he scam 1 billion USD from many Hanjians and right wingers into investing into some media/streaming/crypto business. Much of the money is burnt away on Miles fake billionare lifestyle and online trolls. According to prosecutor:



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He needs to retain these guys

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