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The Netherlands next superpower
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I love the Netherlands, but They have a serious sea level problem.
Atlantis ruled the world at one time, but they couldnt stop mother nature.
I dont wish anything bad to happen to them, but they are too vulnerable to terrorist attack to be a superpower.
One bomb against one of the levies... would be worse than hurrican Katrina.
Quoting: chris999 You don't understand our state of the art water management. A lot of our land is designed to be able to be drowned. There are a lot of safety nets so to speak. We always have been sea people and changing our land to be compatible with as well the sea as the important river and canal routes. In fact in the 80-year war with the Spanish we drowned our land on purpose for a succesful defense. We had a flood in 1953 tho, in Zeeland after a SW floodstorm, and thousands of lives were lost. We learnt from that and we finished the Delta-Werken sea-barriers. Nowadays we claim land back of the sea, by dumping billions of tons of sand. We just completed Maasvlakte 2, another expansion for Rotterdam seaport. OMG we're good.
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