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That's not oil, land, water, etc. By your definition almost every country has tons of natural resources, and yet results are so disparate. Lots of other countries have strategic trading locations: Malaysia, Indonesia, India, South Africa, Argentina (well, not since the Panama canal, I guess), Egypt, Saudi, Iran, and so on. Maybe, just maybe, ideas matter? "People, ideas, materiel. In that order!" - John Boyd, COL, USAF. |
Not really, being the easternmost port on the Mediterranean and southernmost point of Asia are fairly special things. Add in the almost city-state nature of those examples, and they do noting to prove your point.