At least you have the Japanese and German economies as the fruits of your labour.
What a weird situation that the major beneficiaries of the victory were it's aggressors.
Amazing what happens when Communism is on the doorstep.
At least you have the Japanese and German economies as the fruits of your labour.
What a weird situation that the major beneficiaries of the victory were it's aggressors.
Someone remind me if I haven't come back around to it in a couple days (please)
My brain finally personified
How about you ask the people of e.g. South-Korea, the Phillipines and Chili how they felt about the US imposing (some sort of) "democracy" on them.People underestimate the impact of the US on the stability of the modern world.
Has the US screwed up a few countries a few times, sure. Iran, certain Latin American nations, Afghanistan are not the best examples.
But compare the peace across the majority of the world since 1945 vs the constant European and Colonial Wars of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries.
This is purely down to the US as a Super Power, and their drive to encourage Democracies, especially post WW2 in Europe.
Admittely the Cold War played its part, but it was a Cold War of Democracy vs Communism, and US was the standard bearer for Democracy.
Because of the US for the better part of 100 years, the idea of how to be rich and successful in the world was - Democratic elections, a free capitalist economy and a free press that could report the truth.
Compare that to the pre-WW2 where the press and freedoms wererestrcited, and post WW2 Authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China.
If you are the wrong person in these countries, you disappear. The wrong ethnic group, the wrong religion, the wrong sexual orientation, you are targetted and removed.
The press is restricted (and in recent times, the Doctor that discovered the Corona Virus was silenced by the Chinese government, allowing to spread further... extremely stupid).
Despite all of its faults, the fact we live in a world as free as it is is down entirely to the US.
If the US falls, expect more regional wars, more violence, more refugees and the slow death of Democracy. New Tyrants will rise and the enlightment will be nothing but a memory.
Don't forget, in 1984 shows us a world of unrestricted Tyrants messing with history, believe me we do not want that.
How about you ask the people of e.g. South-Korea, the Phillipines and Chili how they felt about the US imposing (some sort of) "democracy" on them.
UghWhat do ya'll think of Bloomberg?
What do ya'll think of Bloomberg?
Much wealth, very money
How about you ask the people of e.g. South-Korea, the Phillipines and Chili how they felt about the US imposing (some sort of) "democracy" on them.
What do ya'll think of Bloomberg?
China is a lot less stable than people realize. The way their economy leans on construction and a sort of sustained forward economic momentum creates things like ghost cities. A lot of it is also built upon outside investment and especially trade with the U.S. The United States can get cheap manufactured goods from India, Japan, or a few other places but China is disproportionately dependant on exports to America. Meaning that not only is much of the stability of their economy reliant on sustaining certain conditions that cannot continue indefinitely, but that America could especially collapse the Chinese economy with embargo alone. Add this together with the fact that China is not a uniform culture nation like they project and in reality they have quite a number of different minorities within the country that despise the government in addition to an age old tradition of china imploding into multiple simultaneous civil wars and you can conclude you will not have to learn Chinese regardless of the American empire existing or not. China is a very shaky paper tiger.
As for Russia the whole reason why we're seeing this power projection and land grabs from them is because we did not disband NATO at the time the Soviet Union broke apart. Seeing as how the whole point of NATO was to counter the soviets it really sets the tone for future relations when we not only maintain NATO as is but actually expand it. (I think we added Poland and Estonia but I don't remember you can look up NATO's extension in the 90s after the collapse of the Soviet Union if you really need specifics). Walking up our alliance against them right up to their door and reneging on our "if you abandon communism we'll send you economic relief" promises are what led to the current crises with Russia. Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton created this problem and there are still diplomatic solutions available to us that do not involve imperialism.
So no, none of you need to learn Russian or Chinese, your politicians are scaring you so you'll accept things from them that you wouldn't normally like say... the United States maintaining its cold war global defense hegemony even though the Soviet Union is no more.
Memory is that short? Bernie can do whatever he likes and as was proven in 2016 the DNC can do whatever THEY like and liking Bernie is not in the top 100.
Yes but that's due to the brainless belief that there's no difference between Somalians and Germans, and other similarly moronic beliefsChina and Russia are shakey, but tis what they represent more than anything. Alt Right and Crtl Left politicians and ideologies are popping up a lot more frequently in Europe
You don't know that the future governments will be tyrannical and if nuclear armed warlords are the future then you will have to contend with that anyways when these houses of cards collapse on thier own.Even if the current Chinese and Russian governements fall, they won't be replaced with Democracies. Just Tyrants of a different colour and their goals will be roughly the same.
And if they fragment, imagine a nulcear armed Warlord, or Nukes lost to the hands of Terrorists... that is extremely dangerous