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nobahn
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Seska1973--
With all due respect -- and no disrespect intended -- is English your primary language? It's OK if it isn't -- but we moderators need to know. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Yeah between what Putin's done on things like gay-rights, Crimea, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, supporting Bassad in Syria etc. We sure are worse than them. That's also not taking into consideration all the shady or messed up things Russia did for the last 90 years or so prior. Most of us Americans know and have accepted that our government and the decisions they've been making since the country's founding aren't infallible but let's not pretend that Russia of all countries has been better in certain respects historically. |
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Seska1973
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No. Is there some kind of Regio Lock here? |
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nobahn
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What the devil is a "Regio Lock"? |
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Seska1973
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DVD Region Lock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code i am from the Region Number 2 No, English is not my First Language. Care to explain your Question? |
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nobahn
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OK, so English is not your primary language; that is all we moderators need to know. As far as my question is concerned, you answered it. "What the devil . . ." is an idiom.
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Jose Cruz
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I don't think Japan or the US or both countries combined can actually contain China at this point in time. China is indeed the world's most powerful country in terms of warmaking potential and I don't think any other country can contain it if China is truly serious about expanding it's sphere of influence. Japan will become a Chinese satellite in the near future. Today it is an American satellite so nothing really will change as the country will never be a sovereign great power again. However, there are two ways for things to proceed in the next couple of decades: 1 - China destroys Japanese and US forces in Asia. Many innocent Japanese civilians will die. Japan submits to Chinese hegemony and US abandons Asia. 2 - Japan peacefully submits to Chinese hegemony, no innocent Japanese civilians die. US reduces it's forces on Asia. US is not powerful enough to defeat China on it's home turf now as Chinese GDP has just surpassed the US in size, and giving that China is specialized in manufacturing it's industrial capabilities are several times the US's and it's manpower strength is 5 times the US's. So China's warmaking potential is perhaps 2-3 times the US now, maybe less considering American technological superiority might reduce their numerical inferiority a little. So the discrepancy in warmaking potential between the two countries is very large now and will increase even more in the near future. I don't see how the US could raise the resources maintain and supply a military force of the size capable of defeating potential Chinese forces and deploy it in East Asia. However I don't think that the world will have another superpower, but it will be multipolar. The US will be local power in the Americas, China will dominate Asia, Russia will bully countries in Eastern Europe, but the EU countries will still maintains it's sovereignty against Russia. Well, that's how the world is converging too so far. |
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Polycell
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I think you're underestimating the power the US military retains. Beyond having far more advanced equipment(ignoring that goose called the F-35) and quite a bit in storage, the US also has a massive advantage: nobody's landed troops on the American mainland in centuries, while the US has as many supercarriers as the rest of the world combined has operational smaller models and allies positioned on China's western flank, meaning the US gets to project power and not worry about suffering any damage itself.
Of course, Russia's current military actions all trace to a complete loss of influence, right down to gas being pumped back from the west. With all options exhausted, it's almost inevitable that Putin turned to pursing policy by other means. |
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Seska1973
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What i found sad here, is that many peoples thinking this "Säbbelrasseln" (Sabre-rattling. metaphor for Military Power Plays ) is necessary. What happen with the Respect and Trust each other? Is is replaced with Force and Fear? The Strongest are the fittest? Well, the problem here. The Institution that should prevent Wars from spreading out is not working anymore. Because these forces that should look out for Peace are fighting each other. The mistrust is winning
Mistrust and Fear is spreading like pestilence at middle ages in Europe. But here the Pest are Weapons capable of Mass destruction for the entire World (Fallout, Biological and worse) Do we really need an 2nd Cuba crisis for the entire World to open their Eyes, in how close we are at the Cliff of no Return? What are we doing today for the Generation that follow us tomorrow. Our present for their luck in survive is an burnout Earth? This is my posting of common sense. Should the World end with us? |
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leafy sea dragon
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Respect and trust can only hold up for as long as every party in a group keeps that respect and treats everyone else fairly. The moment one of these parties starts acting selfishly and/or belligerently, that's when the respect and trust falls apart. (Best case scenario is that it's an isolated incident and the others force the initiating party to stay in line; worst case scenario is that everyone starts fighting.)
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Polycell
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@Seska1973:
The UN was never meant to keep peace; there's a reason the Security Council is pretty much the organ with any power and that's stacked with five Allied vetoes - it was nothing more than a way to preserve and legitimize the balance of power at the time(not that that's stopped English and French influence from waning). Ultimately, what drove the nature of the twentieth century was the law of hegemony; the world had bifurcated under two superpowers that had created a scenario where any war between them would be a catastrophic clash between their entire spheres of influence. This created the concept of MAD that helped prevent the powder keg from ever being lit. What's happening today is that the law of hegemons no longer applies and we're headed towards a multipolar world - in other words, an unusual period in human events is being replaced with a more typical one. With more independent great powers, comes a greater risk of conflict as they attempt to wrest all they can from one another in ever-shifting alliances. |
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Seska1973
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Yeah, in our Past after WW2 Time, the world was dominated of the fear because of the Atomic Bombs. But now, with this Fear slowly gone, old suppressed anger are rising again. So our peace in the past, was just some "we are the Big Bad Dudes with Atomic bombs. Obey or be doomed!", well and Money talked big. It not resolved any problems, it just put them on Ice, and the Ice is melting slowly. But this is the best time to put these problem aside on their own accord. Not playing kindergarten "Your mean to me? be careful i have a Big Brother!".
But... i think i am drifting to far on Offtopic, and i should end my "all should be happy and Peace to all on the Mother Earth" part. i know that this is a dream. But Peace through suppressing the Weak, is that really peace in the hearts and for generations to come? i love in how someone are giving these next Generations a change to start a new. (no names to be neutral and my own Forum Ethics). Should we not support them with Trust and Hope, to overcame their own Hate in their Hearts? last post on this topic. |
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