Still, it would be interesting to know what exactly makes for the size of its exports. What it the structure of this “everything” China is selling to the world. Let’s have a look at what China is exporting

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And there is, indeed, lots of truth in that. As of now, China is the largest industrial producer in the world, outshining every other country in terms of the sheer size of its output, and, more importantly, of its export

NB: This infographics almost certainly underestimates the exports of China

Long story short, I hope they will enforce some sort of the Act of Oblivion. Which will lay necessary groundwork for ending this civil war, and prevent it from resuming in the future.

I hope that the victorious rebels will show reason and restraint in their victory, that they will abstain from taking revenge for the wrongs of the past, and, most importantly, abstain from unleashing it upon the whole communities.

Rule of thumb: Regimes rejected through the foot voting can't be good. In this case, people weren't just leaving somewhere. They were leaving into the overcramped and not particularly safe "safe zone" 50 kms wide in the far north.

This means the regime has been truly hellish

This one, however, was astonishingly bad. How do we know it? Well, based on the people voting with their feet. Even after the cessation of hostilities, there was a mass exodus of people from the Assad controlled zone, to the zones run by literally anyone else

(Mostly, to the safe zone in the north)

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Now what did unite it then?

The sacred language. The sacred dead language.

In case of Europe, that would be the sacred dead language of Latin. And that is why we call it the Latin civilisation, of all things.

There were tons of vernaculars, everyone was speaking vernaculars, and these vernaculars were highly distinctive from each other. Their actual map would be more webbed, and complicated than what you see on these maps. Vernaculars, if anything, divided the premodern world.

It is important to understand that the linguistic map did not really align with the political one. What is now Southern France used to speak vernaculars very different from those of the north, yet, similar to the Catalan vernaculars in the south.