U.S.A could take over the world if they wanted to. Could they???, page 3
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reply posted on 16-9-2009 @ 11:43 PM by mpriebe81
reply to post by MrAndy



One billion red Chinese would like to have a word with you.

Let's be serious though, no one country has the resources nor the fodder to take over the world.


reply posted on 16-9-2009 @ 11:51 PM by rufusdrak
Another simple reason why U.S. would never be able to take over major countries like China and Russia is simple:
1. nuclear deterrence. If U.S. tries to invade Russia by land, they know they will get nuked and the U.S. won't exist anymore so scratch that off the list.
2. invading China by land is a joke. They have like 1 billion reserve serviceman, more than 3 times the entire population of the U.S. The U.S. would be slaughtered so the only other method they would have is
3. nuke China. And yes in an all out nuke war the U.S. would beat China because U.S. has more nukes and more sophisticated nukes but guess what?
4. The radioactive fallout from nuking China would drift into Russia and destroy much of Russia thus causing Russia to immediately respond by nuking the U.S. and wiping the U.S. off the face of the Earth...thus impossible. As you can see it's a stalemate any way you look at it because of the two nuclear superpowers proximity to each other (Russia/China). You can't nuke one of them without the other initiating an immediate nuke attack back on you because you will have ruined part of the others' country. Just imagine Russia launching an all out nuke assault on Canada, most of the fallout would blow southeast and destroy and/or contaminate the whole eastern seaboard and kill cities such as Nyc and DC don't you think that would cause the U.S. to want to nuke them back? So it's the same thing here.



reply posted on 17-9-2009 @ 12:38 AM by stumason
reply to post by CanadianDream420



Not really. US hegemony, for what it was, peaked at the turn of the century. It is now in decline due to rising powers in Asia. Economically, China and Japan hold the US by the danglies and even to a lesser extent EU countries such as the UK own alot of US debt.

The US enjoyed 15 odd years of unchallenged military supremacy. This is now on the wane, partly due to the economic crisis but mainly due to the big Asian powers flexing and growing. We are now in a mulit-polar world and not one single power could ever really "conquer" the world.


reply posted on 17-9-2009 @ 12:44 AM by Gun Totin Gerbil
reply to post by rufusdrak



Can you imagine them trying to find all these countries on a map ? And trying to dig up reasons to bad mouth all these nations like they do Venezuela and Iran ? They would go frantic with the confusion of it all. We wouldn't need to bomb them, just send the medical orderlies over there to round up all the dazed and frothing at the mouth population and put them away in their fema camps.

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