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Not really, foreigners governments are minions of the US Military, it just for war reasons they are painted as real enemies. In reality any country fighting the
by jcslzr 11y ago
Not really, foreigners governments are minions of the US Military, it just for war reasons they are painted as real enemies. In reality any country fighting the US in any way would be like being a skinny kid who fights Mike Tyson in his prime and Mike Tyson has a bat and a gun and the referee is Tyson Mother.
- crpatino 11y agoThe problem with that approach is that while Mike Tyson keeps flexing his muscles and banging heads around the neighbourhood, some scrawny nerdy type is quietly toying in his basement with ultralight drones and shrapnel grenades. I think if most people around here agrees that Big Old Industries can be "disrupted", there is no reason to think that the same cannot happen to Big Old Geopolitics. Not to say that Tyson's mom does not have her own nerds working in her own garage, but the scenario is probably more complex that what you made it out to be.
- aws_ls 11y agoTime-frames. You imply major changes in geopolitics which typically need multiples of 100s of years. No body can plan for that long a period - they can sure pretend to. Such changes, often come undetected until we are well into or past them, so useful for anthropoligists and historians. Another example of a still larger time-frame are geographical and ecological changes (multiples of 10,000 years) IMHO, the GP's argument is relevant to time-frame of politics/policies in a few years/decades. Post 2nd world war and more so end of cold war era. Its US which rules the world, and so GP is quite right (found the Tyson example, hilarious).