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When the leaders of the most powerful government in the world, which also happens to be the most democratic and the most peaceful, decide that it is no longer any of our business what the rest of the world..guess what? We cease to matter.
The United States is not "the most peaceful" country in the world.
No nation in all history has ever had as much power as the US and used it less
lmao....japan and germany were in fact hostile for many years afterwards....
oh, not my lifetime so it must not have happened....
Not THAT hostile..I think Germany had a group called the Werewolves, or somesuch, a remnant of the Nazis. But it was relatively peaceful.
Japan almost had its own American dictator in the form of MacArthur.......and he tried it a second time in Korea!
Even if West Germany and Japan weren't hostile towards us because of all the money we were dumping into them, the next World War was set to be fought in Europe with Germany as ground zero and Japan was a great place to strategic place to leapfrog into east Asia from.
American influence is settling to its natural point. Thanks to geography after that second world war we were left economically intact. Most every other meaningful country this side of Argentina was bombed or had troops fighting through it.
That must be why all those who are oppressed and victimized want to come to America.
When the leaders of the most powerful government in the world, which also happens to be the most democratic and the most peaceful, decide that it is no longer any of our business what the rest of the world..guess what? We cease to matter.
The United States is not "the most peaceful" country in the world.
No nation in all history has ever had as much power as the US and used it less
The corporate fat cats who got rich during the Bush years don't care about America. They are taking over the world and american labor is just too expensive.
But don't worry. We're taking it back. Undoing a lot of what they did the last 8 years. But its hard because now the lobbyists are calling the Democrats and influencing them now.
Not THAT hostile..I think Germany had a group called the Werewolves, or somesuch, a remnant of the Nazis. But it was relatively peaceful.
No it wasn't, it was very violent. However, We wiped them all out in about a year and a half. Basically, we didn't fuck around with fantasies like International Law and just killed them all right where we found them. Trust me, I know. My Grandfather was there, and fighting against his own ancestry.
Japan almost had its own American dictator in the form of MacArthur....
Mac wasn't a dictator, he stood up to the gutless, spineless Politicians just like the kind we have today on both sides. Those fucking Red Chinese killed alot of our Men in Korea after we saved their asses from Japan completely Conquering them. Mac was right, we should have invaded China and killed millions of the bastards for what they did. ~BH
America is at a serious crossroads right now. We all hear everyday probably the terms "multi-polar" world, but I think some of us understand this new world is the same as the one yesterday, but with a much more diminished role for US intervention abroad.
Bottom line, if there ever was an American empire, it is crumbling. RAPIDLY. Bellow is an article from the Asia Times which points out 6 signs of diminishing American power. In a way I don't think this is all bad, but I do feel America has been a force for good and I worry about a world without American supremacy.
Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan
Here's a summary of the 6 points, and you tell me if you agree or not:
1. The G-7/G-8 has now officially deferred to the G-20. This demonstrates the rapid rise of the "BRIC" countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Jeffrey Sachs is quoted as saying: "The G-20's true significance is not in the passing of a baton from the G-7/G-8 but from the G-1, the US."
2. Americas economic rivals are looking for an alternative to the dollar. Again, the BRIC countries are moving away from the US.
3. Although there is a lot of misleading information about this issue, both Russia and China have rebuffed the US diplomatically regarding Iran. Obama thought he could buy the Russians by nixing the missile shield in Eastern Europe. But he seems to have received little for his rather significant sacrifice.
4. China has gone a step further, and outright developed a DEEP relationship with Iran. This not only shows a dismissal of US interests by China, but also a bypassing of traditional US allies in the Gulf.
5. International support for the war in Afghanistan is very rapidly diminishing. Gordon Brown has only pledged an extra 500 troops and "only if other European nations increase their own military involvement, something he undoubtedly knows is highly unlikely."
6. The bypassing of Chicago by the IOC for the 2016 olympics. The writer notes, "few said so, but in the course of the Olympic decision-making process the US was summarily and pointedly demoted from sole superpower to instant also-ran, a symbolic moment on a planet entering a new age."
What do you think?
Not THAT hostile..I think Germany had a group called the Werewolves, or somesuch, a remnant of the Nazis. But it was relatively peaceful.
No it wasn't, it was very violent. However, We wiped them all out in about a year and a half. Basically, we didn't fuck around with fantasies like International Law and just killed them all right where we found them. Trust me, I know. My Grandfather was there, and fighting against his own ancestry.
Japan almost had its own American dictator in the form of MacArthur....
Mac wasn't a dictator, he stood up to the gutless, spineless Politicians just like the kind we have today on both sides. Those fucking Red Chinese killed alot of our Men in Korea after we saved their asses from Japan completely Conquering them. Mac was right, we should have invaded China and killed millions of the bastards for what they did. ~BH
Again no, the Japanese occupation of China was enden by the Red Army during operation August Storm in August 45. It took the reds roughly 2 weeks to kill or capture the one million strong Kwantung army, control a terriotry of the size of western Europe and even get into a position that would allow an ivnasion of Hokaido on the Japanese mainland.
Casulty wise, Red army vs. Imperial Japanese Army was roughly like the Wehrmacht vs. the Army of Poland, the Japanese tried to fight and did so with their usual tenacity but got surrounded, pined down, shelled by combined Strikes of all weapons and summarly destroyed.
Link:
Leavenworth Papers No. 7 (August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria)
i am still of the mind that we should be less involved in the affairs of other countries.
We have no need to spend the hundreds of billions or even trillions of our taxpayer dollars in foreign countries.
Why do we spend billions keeping troops in other countries when our borders are made of Swiss cheese?
why do we give billions to other countries when our schools suck?
why do we build roads and hospital in other countries when ours are crumbling?
Sorry folks. it is time to put our home first and worry about everyone else later.
Pack up our equipment and troops and put them on our borders. Spend our money on our country first and when our house is in order, then we can think about sending our wealth overseas.
Charity begins at home.
I disagree here and feel we would have been at war with the Russians if they'd listened to Patton and nuked China if Macarthur had his way. Both were excellent field generals, politicians, we lucked out and picked Eisenhower.If the corrupt politicians had listened to Patton and Macarthur
We are ALREADY seeig the decline of American hegemony at thge IMF, folks.
I love this nation, too, which is exactly why I'd like some of you flagwaving idiots to wake up and smell the impending economic decline.
Free trade is a disaster.
As was tax breaks for billionaires, BOTH wars in Asia we're currently bogged down in, and now the billionaire bankers bailout cotinues to such the life out of the American economy.
It's ALWAYS about money folks.
Everything else flows from that.
Osama is taking us to the American holocaust.
Osama is taking us to the American holocaust.
No...Obama is going to make sure we all have health care including you ya fuckin wackadoodle. They will fix your brain and you will be thankfull.
