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> Wars only start if we let them, and then stop when we take an interest. The US wasn't always a powerful military force. It became this way after WWII. So no

> Wars only start if we let them, and then stop when we take an interest. The US wasn't always a powerful military force. It became this way after WWII. So no, it wasn't the case then, but yes, it is pretty much the case today. Every country knows that they cannot win a traditional war against the US - so the OPs point is correct here. It's just lucky that the US is not imperialistic. Imagine if China was the most powerful militarily. > China As reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_relations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_... There was certainly a cold war between the two nations via other conflicts. If it's a question of who was the initial aggressor, that's hard to say because there was no direct conflict.

boomboomsubban 6y ago
>It's just lucky that the US is not imperialistic. Imagine if China was the most powerful militarily. Another jaw dropping example of American exceptionalism. Look at your link, notice how we call the start of the PRC the "loss of China?" Any country not under our economic and political dominion is labeled the enemy
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > notice how we call the start of the PRC the "loss of China?" The PRC was literally the "loss of China" - the Cultural Revolution destroyed most of China's customs and history. > Any country not under our economic and political dominion is labeled the enemy The CCP is not just ideologically opposed to the US, but has been in an undeclared cold war since Mao in the 1950's. The CCP is our enemy - just look at their refusal to allow outside corona investigators to visit Wuhan for a year, or the large-scale spying in Western countries, etc. Why are you shilling for the CCP, who harvest organs from religious group members on an industrial scale for export?
- robin21 6y ago
  Lost to communism. And what happened next under Mao involved a lot of loss shall we say. I think a great many Chinese would have preferred America intervene if they knew what that 50s had in store for them.

boomboomsubban 6y ago

>It's just lucky that the US is not imperialistic. Imagine if China was the most powerful militarily. Another jaw dropping example of American exceptionalism. Look at your link, notice how we call the start of the PRC the "loss of China?" Any country not under our economic and political dominion is labeled the enemy

redis_mlc 6y ago
> notice how we call the start of the PRC the "loss of China?" The PRC was literally the "loss of China" - the Cultural Revolution destroyed most of China's customs and history. > Any country not under our economic and political dominion is labeled the enemy The CCP is not just ideologically opposed to the US, but has been in an undeclared cold war since Mao in the 1950's. The CCP is our enemy - just look at their refusal to allow outside corona investigators to visit Wuhan for a year, or the large-scale spying in Western countries, etc. Why are you shilling for the CCP, who harvest organs from religious group members on an industrial scale for export?
robin21 6y ago
Lost to communism. And what happened next under Mao involved a lot of loss shall we say. I think a great many Chinese would have preferred America intervene if they knew what that 50s had in store for them.