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tim333 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers

Much of the UK's decline from 1910 to 1950 was from spending its money funding WW1 and WW2. Hopefully we don't get world wars soon.

dh2022 5 months ago | [–]

Plus the Japanese beating the British so badly all over Southeast Asia. This gave a lot of momentum to independence in Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and eventually India.

wltr 5 months ago | | [–]

Thailand? From whom?

harry8 5 months ago | [–]

Quite.

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