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July 3rd, 2016, 01:53 PM | #81 | |
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In the end, China is the country most likely to crush North Korea. There is clear evidence that China is unhappy with her neighbour and ally. But China is a conservative power when it comes to military actions and would not attack North Korea casually or without a really strong cause for action.
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-korea...-fears-1568669 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...125_story.html |
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The U.S. will never let Israel fall. That's the ticket to WW3. In the fabric of that event, most nations in some respect will be pulled into the conflict.
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China's economy has been struggling of late and so they've been turning up the nationalist rhetoric and claiming the entire South China Sea. If they get desperate enough, they might start playing chicken with neighbors like Japan or India, or try invading Taiwan.
And you've left out Iran, entirely. If any country is likely to get out of hand, they're it. |
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The United States is Still the Biggest Menace
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China has the most men under arms, but I believe that Chinese leadership knows that wars drain resources from a country. They may be pushing some of their smaller neighbors around, but are certainly aware of the hornets nest the old empire encountered in Vietnam. Their neighboring rival India is just too big to tackle and has the same problems of population size as China. They are also so intertwined with Japan economically that military effort in that direction would be very costly. Things are friendly now, but Russia grabbed large chunks of Chinese territory in the previous couple of centuries. If China is really looking to expand, that will be the most likely and convienient direction. Iran's internal dynamics may lead the mullahs to divert attention by external aggression, but we also have much evidence that there is a lot of pushback from their people who are tired of living in their "Islamic paradise." Iranians have always been a fun loving and sensual people, despite the efforts of a well organized minority of violent religious fanatics. My Lebanese Chritian friend calls the Iranians "a degenerate people." The U.S. is the one country with a major military weapons industry pushing it towards aggressive action. I suppose the Russians may want to flex their muscles and look tough, but it is not clear that their economy will sustain a major conflict. Somehow, the world has allowed the U.S. to keep printing up money and sell bonds to fund its brand of military terror. How long this will last is anybody's guess. I suppose the good news is that American youth is so physically unfit and narcissitic that a serious damper is placed on the politicos ability to wage a mammoth war of aggression. Plus, we no longer have a merchant marine or ship building industry to move several million soldiers across the oceans. Ah, but all this analysis gravely underestimates the power of human stupidity that courses through our murderous past. |
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I would submit the Russians have taken asymmetric warfare to the next level and are winning quite handedly. I would suggest the Mr T is complicit in this because he sees an Russo-American alliance as being the best counter to a resurging, yes "re", China. But both are fighting the Grand Game with weapons and propoganda, the Chinese are doing it with hearts and minds in South America and Africa, and it is they who are winning the long game. Hope the Montenegrans can do something about it...
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Conflict in the South China Sea, by J.R. Dunn
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