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There is no counsel in the continental world on when to stop taking territory, which is why Chinese and Russian empires keep overextending and imploding.
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- Sarah Paine Historian of maritime and continental empires who taught strategy at the U.S
And it turns out that there's been a tendency over the course of China's and Russia's long histories to overextend and this helps account for the implosions of various empires and dynasties.
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Watch from 0:25:25 plays here↗Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geographyyoutube.com
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