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diplomacy for nations who skipped the talking and brought the artillery instead
gunboat diplomacycoercion by naval threat, named after these very ships
river huntersshallow draft let them prowl rivers warships couldn't
opium warsBritish gunboats forced China's ports open by force
giant slayerssmall hulls carried disproportionately massive guns
the diplomata slang shoe and steak too, oddly