reply to post by Nobama
Yeah, I give that a big meh. I don't care how many billions of people are in China or whether 5 more countries have larger armies than the US. Our
technology is so much more advanced than these countries that the idea of the USA being invaded is fairly laughable. Don't think in WWI and WWII
terms, there will be no large scale ground war like that again. Nuclear war is always a possibility, and a scary one at that, but again, we have more
nukes and more intelligence than everyone else, and I really don't think the world is stupid enough to go that route.
The curse of the military industrial complex - it continually justifies its existence. I can't even imagine what 30 years of Cold War and economic
superpower funds can buy or all the secret sh*t the US military has at this point. I mean, let's get real here, most people on ATS think the USA can
manipulate the weather!!!! You're telling me you're worried about what another country with more ground troops could do to the USA?
Edit: I'm not saying it is right, just being realistic. WWIII isn't our primary concern right now. Even though the CIA is blatantly behind the planned
civil uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa, the USA will always have plausible deniability. Before the game ends they want control of the
resources, and the debt crisis is forcing their hand to act quickly. None of the BRICS are going to get in the way of this. China was the first
country to sign a mining deal in Afghanistan, and they are throwing people in jail at the first sign of dissent to avoid the CIA covert domestic
warfare. We might be at the end of the western financial paradigm as we know it, but not WWIII.
edit on 23-4-2011 by dontdrinkthewater because: (no reason given)