tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post5061679698591161440..comments2024-03-28T08:21:30.796-04:00Comments on War News Updates: Germany Is Insisting That Their Foreign Aid Contribution Be Counted As 'Defense Spending' War News Updates Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12034101783150523332noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-72830640526154572102017-05-06T12:28:18.744-04:002017-05-06T12:28:18.744-04:00Yes, you're quite right..... and they still pa...Yes, you're quite right..... and they still paid. They also comforted themselves on their superior political position while they waited on their Gallic estates for their doom.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-29249168624051494262017-05-06T11:34:41.686-04:002017-05-06T11:34:41.686-04:00To be called "tribute" a recognition by ...To be called "tribute" a recognition by the payer of political submission to the payee is normally required; the large sums, essentially protection money, paid by the later Roman and Byzantine Empires to barbarian peoples to prevent them attacking imperial territory, would not usually be termed "tribute" as the Empire accepted no inferior political position. Payments by a superior political entity to an inferior one, made for various purposes, are described by terms including "subsidy".<br /><br />Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TributeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-84481105365887168232017-05-06T08:46:51.167-04:002017-05-06T08:46:51.167-04:00Times and semantics have changed. In the past it w...Times and semantics have changed. In the past it was called Tribute, Dane Geld, etc. It buys time, which is never ever used wisely.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-13752357805568508702017-05-06T01:14:42.665-04:002017-05-06T01:14:42.665-04:00In theory it makes sense (as development aid reduc...In theory it makes sense (as development aid reduces poverty and in return reduces footholds for terrorism and extremism). However, this was not the intended meaning in previous agreements and Germany's military needs to be stronger. These are testing times and you can't throw development aid at extremists - the left keeps telling you it will work (and I agree - but the time frames are in the decades and centuries.. meanwhile we need conventional firepower to send extremists and other aggressors to their makers :P)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com