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“You can’t handle the truth!” - Col. Jessup. Look at China’s aggression in the past couple of months, especially with India. It would never have happened 10 or
by jmeister 6y ago
“You can’t handle the truth!” - Col. Jessup.
Look at China’s aggression in the past couple of months, especially with India. It would never have happened 10 or 20 years back with a strong America. Yes, the US does serve as the world’s policeman.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoThe idea that the US could simply threaten the world’s factory with 4x the population of the US is ludicrous to me. They are top down, focused, and the only problem they had was lack of education, which is solved by time. The only way for the US to have been able to threaten China without using force would have been to sow political discord and break it up into smaller countries. The US has 330M people, mostly getting older. China has 1.4B. Both have nukes so it’s not in anyone’s interest to engage militarily, and both have sufficient resources to not have to depend on someone else. And both need each other economically.
- ntsplnkv2 6y agoThe US's strength has never solely been about it's individual strength. Together with the EU, Japan, Australia, SE Asian countries in general, it really evens up the numbers game. Plus the US has dominance in its hemisphere. China has India right next door.