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Damn, that's a pretty good writeup, it gives a lot of context. The history you described of 17th century and before is kind of hard to picture since I don't know a lot about Europe in that time (and afaik Europe changes quite a lot in those pre-1700 periods you describe). The history of lend-lease by the US to USSR surprised me. Kind of understandable that they used this strategy, helping the USSR saved the Allies a lot of manpower. Will definitely take a look at that video by Andrius Tapinas, the subtitles seem alright. By the way, I think your mention of Flight MH370 is supposed to point to MH17. MH370 was lost, MH17 was shot.