07-07-2017, 12:09 PM
(07-07-2017, 12:04 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(07-07-2017, 11:48 AM)Cynic Hero Wrote: > JohnX can argue that China is a threat to the US, Japan, South
> korea, Russia, India, vietnam, the Philippines and Europe or even
> to North Korea. And it may very well be a threat to all of these
> countries even an existential threat to all of these
> countries. But that is not the argument JohnX that you seemed to
> have been making. The problem JohnX is that you seemed to be
> arguing that China is not a threat to Russia while at the same
> time is an existential threat to Europe. That scenario is
> impossible. If china is aggressive and expansionist and is an
> existential threat to Europe and the US, then that threat is
> immeasurably greater to Russia that it would be to either the US
> and Europe because neither western blocs shares a direct border
> with china. On the other hand russia shares a madrive 3000 mile
> long border with china and there are several PLA army groups
> permanently deployed directly opposite that border.
Did you even read the comments you're responding to?
I had already wrote up this statement when you replied to the earlier statement. I did not want that reply to go to waste however