Re: GPS Nav in 2008 / attn: Andrew
- From: The Wolf With the Red Roses <after-dark-arms@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:11:45 GMT
retaliation impossible. It will then be time to sign a pact of friendship
with the remaining world-power, in preparation for another attack. This
scheme, it is hardly necessary to say, is a mere daydream, impossible of
realization. Moreover, no fighting ever occurs except in the disputed areas
round the Equator and the Pole: no invasion of enemy territory is ever
undertaken. This explains the fact that in some places the frontiers
between the superstates are arbitrary. Eurasia, for example, could easily
conquer the British Isles, which are geographically part of Europe, or on
the other hand it would be possible for Oceania to push its frontiers to
the Rhine or even to the Vistula. But this would violate the principle,
followed on all sides though never formulated, of cultural integrity. If
Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and
Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a
task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a
hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are
roughly on the Oceanic level. The problem is the same for all three super-
states. It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be
no contact with foreigners, except, to a limited extent, with war prisoners
and coloured slaves. Even the official ally
.
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