08-18-2016, 04:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2016, 04:56 PM by John J. Xenakis.)
(08-18-2016, 04:35 PM)Cynic Hero 86 Wrote: > At the moment it looks like China and Russia would be on the same
> side. However if The China-Russia Partnership is hollow and they
> are revealed as bitter enemies as you say; Doesn't it make More
> sense for the US to arrange to sit out the earlier phases of the
> war and enter the war later on while facing relatively weakened
> enemies rather than Entering First and facing the enemy when they
> are still at full power.
Oh, I think it would be absolutely fantastic if it were possible for
the US to play "Switzerland" and let them all kill each other while we
watch. But I don't by any means think it's possible.
FDR did stay out of WW II until Pearl Harbor. Perhaps that will be
repeated in some way.
But we do have mutual defense treaties with numerous countries: Japan,
South Korea, Israel, Taiwan, the Philippines, the ANZUS agreement with
Australia and New Zealand, a special treaty with Iceland, the NATO
agreement with all of Europe, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(RMI).
Even more important, there are a lot of people, in America and in the
world, who believe in American Exceptionalism, and who truly believe
that America has a moral obligation, or even an obligation dictated by
God, to do the right thing, so we won't stay out of a war very long.
