Joseph Riggs wrote: > Most likely the Dominion (I think that was the name thrown around) nutjobs in > Kurdistan > bought their Battletech-style mobile suits from the HRA for their military,
MAHQ doesn't list that MS. My question is that if those are HRA manufacture, then did HRA supply them to Sinhala as well? Seems odd to sell weapons to one's enemy, but sure it has happened in real life before, many times. I still put my 25 cents on those Dominion and Sinhala MS as designed/manufactured by a forth org that probably predates AEU/Union/HRA. > much as India > (to pick a nation at random that has a large military) buys much of its > equipment from > Russia. So far I've seen nothing to suggest that any of the three > superpowers are any I don't disagree with your point, but India buying Soviet arms is a poor example. During the time India was buying Soviet arms, India was politically friendly to the Soviets. And India switching over to the US side was accompanied by a switch to American arms. You have to go to something as commoditized as AK47 to find it disassociated from political/military alliances. > more religious than their modern-day counterparts (yes, I know that Bush is > probably > more devout than, say, Clinton was; but he generally doesn't use "God wanted > me to do > it" as a reason when publicly justifying policy decisions). God may tell Bush "Don't side with the Islamic Turks against my Christian Armenians", but he's not going to follow God if it inconveniences national interest now, is he? Religious issues decide elections, yes, but whoever is elected, Bushes or Clintons, set policy based on "national interest". I realize now there are several translations out there. I can't find and compare all the versions. But some dialog lines clearly stake out Union's principles: ~ The Union president meanwhile talks with his adviser about how Celestial Being is ~ ~ taking their place in terms of eradicating war through military power. When the ~ ~ adviser wonders if Celestial Being is serious since they're getting nothing in ~ ~ return, the president explains that Union intervenes in other countries' disputes for ~ ~ the sake of securing its own people's safety and national interests - it's not charity. ~ (quote form http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2007/10/13/gundam-00-02/ These few lines are quite loaded, and probably subject to speculation/interpretation no matter what versions you take. The version I saw on YouTube is a bit more explicit in some phrases. Perhaps we should wait a bit to see where Union is going, but here is a possible, relatively cynical, angle: Prez: "these CB's are trying to steal our schick!" Adv: "except they seem truly to get no profit for themselves" Prez: "we also pretend to be a charity, but you know damn well we don't ever take a dump without an ulterior motive." Adv: "so it's just a matter of time before we reveal theirs" Prez: "damn straight, took us 10 years to get where we are, you think I will let some mofo upstarts spoil the whole thing?" I think the general point in Ep.2 is to elaborate on the "zero-sum game" mentioned in the intro. All three powers are playing the game without concerns for the cost in lives and suffering. > I've got a sneaking suspicion that CB is a front using our idealistic > protagonists (including > both the "Gundam Meisters" and the carrier crew) to set up something else. > Presumeably that's still a long ways off, though. I think you are barking up the right tree, but what is going to go down is probably (HOPEFULLY!) a bigger surprise. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
