08-08-2016, 05:54 PM
(08-08-2016, 04:08 PM)Mikebert Wrote: Can you explain your thinking? What exactly would be the benefits that China or Russia could gain by making war with the US?
While you are coming up with a response ask yourself this. Do you think the US maintenance of an global military presence (i.e. acting at the world's policeman) is worth the cost to the US?
If not, do you think China or Russia want to take this project on? It makes no sense for them (see below).
You may not remember the Cold War, but the USSR did not really gain anything from maintaining their international presence. Their intervention in Afghanistan destroyed them. They did this in response to us doing it which we did because we were spooked by the success of the Maoist insurgents in 1949. That is a Chinese civil war created the modern day American empire that Donald Trump is now* questioning because it makes no bloody financial sense.
*finally (sigh)
But, but, Mikebert haven't you heard, the US is the indispensable nation?
Without our 100's of offshore military bases, our cabal of NeoCON chickenhawks, our MIC shills, our grand and glorious history of CIA plots, the world would be doomed due to a lack of US penultimate wealth and wisdom showering down like bombs over Baghdad.
Russia and China are too busy living in the real world to bother with the above, man.
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