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First chapter compares the infrastructure of the internet to a geographical map of something connecting cities similar to a train. Really interesting thinking about how the world is connected with routers and switches managed by a few conglomerates, and how everything sent over the internet (including your IP address) is by definition public

Germany was aware of Britains naval dominance and said that it’s a hindrance preventing their own growth. They point to failures of England retaining territory as evidence that opportunity for growth exists

Chapter 1 outlines how there nations are conflicted in an armament based game theory; they cannot yield any progress, whether military, economic, or cultural, or the opposition will de facto take the yielded progress for themselves which leads to a loss in progress for its own people. Angell makes the argument that this game theory is felt in their citizens a they inherently know that progress is reliant on taking