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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
When are you running for office?  I don't think the US has the attention span or the will to win anything other than the Armed Forces Bowl. I think Eisenhower was right about the military industrial complex. The only area I really "worry"  about, is if the PRC decides to make it's move on Taiwan. |
Yes, and we should ask ourselves the question: Is Russia a serious threat to the world's security. Probably not unless provoked. Sure, they are a dictatorship run by a guy with his arm to his elbow in the cookie jar, and I do not want to diminish Ukraine, but they are no Third Reich,
Is China a serious threat to the world's security. Probably not. They may not allow their citizens all the freedoms we have, but they have an orderly society and for the most part, decent human rights. As long as you toe the Party line. Someday they will make their move on Taiwan, though I seriously cannot see why that's so blinking important to them.
Is the US a serious threat to the world's security. Hard for me to be unbiased, but other than the endless interventions in the middle east, I would say not. If the US would get serious about their justice system and enforce their internal laws, and forcing people to be accountable for their own welfare instead of leaning on the state, American society could improve, but I think the decline is an inevitable evolution of more freedom and ever-higher standards of living and expectations.
The US/China/Russia need to sit down and draw out a roadmap and become partners instead of adversaries.
Because the way things are going, one day something is gonna go wrong, then it will go really wrong.