During the sixteenth seventeenth centuryand onward, a lot of the ways in which the british specifically flooded north america with guns for indigenous people to use. They also did much the same on the other side of atlantic and western africa. And that and this sort of divide and conquer model that's happening on one side of the atlantic is also happening on the eastern seaport and in mutatis mutandis. There is also new and more interesting research too about foreign interference, or rather, european trade of firearms into the into indian ocean states as well. All of which is basically to say that state formation, both on e europe