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The world will have a master. The question is, who do you want the master to be? Your choices are America, China, or Russia. That's it. You may not like it, b
by cbozeman 6y ago
The world will have a master. The question is, who do you want the master to be?
Your choices are America, China, or Russia. That's it.
You may not like it, but you can't do anything about it, and denying it and raising a fuss about it is childish naivety, not at its finest, but at its absolute worst.
- Dahoon 6y agoMy wish-list: EU, PRC, USA, Russia - in that order. The US has had its chance.
- FpUser 6y agoMy wish - all of them and few more so that no one gets funny ideas about ruling the world.
- disown 6y ago> Your choices are America, China, or Russia. That's it. Don't sleep on the EU. They are largest economic/political entity in the world. Not america, not china, not russia. The EU represents the world's largest market, has a larger population than the US, larger defense budget than china, currency that could possibly replace the dollar one day and a legacy/network of former colonial possessions all over the world.
- tehlike 6y agoThis assumes the continuity of EU as a union. I would not really count on it.
- sfifs 6y agoThe problem for EU is they haven't forged a nation like what US or India has done in spite of their cultural diversity. They're still essential squabbling little countries. How horrifically the south European countries were treated during the financial crisis instead of the EU pulling together just demonstrates how bad the situation is. Unless it federalizes, it will have little or no political impact.
- FpUser 6y ago>"The world will have a master. The question is, who do you want the master to be?" I prefer not to have a single master but a multi-polar world where countries learn to use a diplomacy and do things for a mutual benefit rather than submit to the biggest dick on a street. And I think this is where the world is going.
- Armisael16 6y agoWe had several hundred years of a multipolar world when Europe ran the show. It was know for diplomacy, yes, but not for peace.
- FpUser 6y agoWell we have progressed since then a little, don't you think? What used to be solved by force is now solved by diplomacy more often. And large scale wars are less likely because of nukes. Otherwise we are going to a dictatorship on international scale. Fuck that
- Armisael16 6y ago>Well we have progressed since then a little, don't you think? What used to be solved by force is now solved by diplomacy more often. That transition happened at basically the precise point the world transitioned from a multipolar situation to a bipolar one. I'm not saying bipolarity brought peace, but there's hardly any evidence that we've gotten any better at multipolar situations.
- FpUser 6y agoI'll settle for a few major powers.
- awaythrows 6y ago> The world will have a master. The question is, who do you want the master to be? $ su