Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Is there anyone outside of the United States who doesn’t think that China would easily destroy America in a war? Because that conclusion astonishes me.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Why do you think that?

Originally Posted by TheBig3

I don't expect any nation to give up its nuclear program after Iraq. I think Libya only reinforced that. The 800 lbs. Gorilla in the room now is China, who seems to have mastered the art of using our weapons against us both militarily and financially. They can't match us toe-to-toe but they're well aware that be shaking our hand with the left, and building a tank with the right, they're not only impossible to invade, they're capable of damaging us with weapons and economics.

China's the key to the global stage so long as they remain strong and don't give a **** what we think about who they trade with, giving a sort of immunity to Iran, Russia, and North Korea.

It's slightly funny that Trump ran so hard on dashing the Iran nuclear deal, because what really lead to that was both Russia and China saying "We're done putting sanctions on Iran, you won't have the UN Security Council votes to keep them." That gets lost in the news about Iran, but it means that while they get an outrageous amount of heat for the level of threat they are, others are only incentivized to support them. Iran, unlike N. Korea and Russia, are more sympathetic to the world since their government was toppled by the US, and they routinely get attacked by the US and Israel.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Because America’s military is made up of Americans.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Because America’s military is made up of Americans.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by jwb

Ideally, sure it would be good if the whole world disarmed their nuclear capacities. We don't live in an ideal world though and no serious power is going to trust their adversaries to do so. So it is what it is.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I don't think they had nuclear weapons in the Bible.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Least clever post ever. The entire theme of the New Testament is pacifism and generosity.