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It’s both/and.
Let’s say you’re trying to convince a populace of an unpopular war to invade, I dunno, Greenland. You want to convince the country of its massive land & untapped riches.
Which map would you use?
but look at how large Australia looks in the second, maybe that is an alternative place to look to invade - and they have rearearth minerals
You'd have to defeat the native emu population, though. Good luck with that
on the up side to that is Emu taste real nice, and I hear that the US is having a problem with beef
Kangaroo is good too. Very lean though, gotta add a little fat to it
My money is on the Emus.
We practically already give away all of our natural resources. Hell, we actually PAY for big companies to take it and sell it overseas, tax free. Because be are playing 5D chess