Putin redraws Russia's borders, Obama makes Final Four picks
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Quote:Well, who has a military bigger than everyone else combined?
Now I'm confused. Who decided to be World Emperor ?
Facts, rappy. If you learn to see them, you'll learn to love them.
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Our standing army isn't, by any stretch of the imagination, bigger than all others combined. The PRC has 2x the active military as does the United States.
India's active military is only slightly smaller than the USA's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_troops#The
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In terms of people, no. But in terms of people plus materiel and weapons systems, yes.
Really, rappy? You're going to compare boots on th ground to a military with globe-spanning advanced weapons systems?
Does China or India have 10 aircraft carriers, over 4000 military aircraft, 72 submarines, 62 destroyers, about 500 continent-based ICBMs, and 800 military installations around the world?
Well... no.
But if that's what you want to argue- that all of that military spending has gotten us NO strategic or tactical advantage whatsoever.... well, just remember that the next time you say that we need more military spending!
In any case, I realize that China has designs on the rest of the world, but their plans (so far) are more along the nature of trade, not war. They have deals all over the world- Mexico for copper, Brazil and Argentina for food, oil wherever they can find it (the former Sudan, the former Libya etc), investments everywhere in Africa including Central African Republic, Egypt and Kenya (altho what they want out of Egypt besides the Suez Canal is beyond me!) etc etc. However, if there is a destabilization in their trading partner- such as Sudan, or their trade routes are interdicted, they have absolutely no military force projection. So in terms of "enforcing" their contracts... they'd have to depend on international banks and so forth to sanction various nations... like THAT'S gonna happen in China's favor!
The USA is responding to the Chinese trade threat by destabilizing China's trading partners- creating South Sudan, sending forces into CAR. The USA is also responding in-kind (supposedly) by creating trade partnership- the TPP- which excludes China.
OOC, you seem to react to several threats as if they were ALL existential: jihadism, China, Russia, and liberalism.
Which, in your opinion, is the greatest threat, and why?
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O-man sez the greatest threat is a nuclear bomb in Manhattan - but wait, he already declared that the war of Terrorism was over, there were no more terrorists, so you can re-elect him in 2012. Without terrorists, who does he think will release nukes in Manhattan? The Occupy clowns? They can't even figure out how to stop pooping on each other in broad daylight.
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Well, who has a military bigger than everyone else combined?
Words mean things, Siggy.
Had you said STRONGER, then fine, that's a different story. But you merely said 'BIGGER'. And what, more than anything does it take to win a war ?
Boots on the ground.
China has far more 'boots' than does the US. Hell, they have more than the US and India combined.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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What does it take to win a war?
LOTS of PEOPLE - marching!
Yes, I can see it now. All those Chinese, matching under the Pacific to attack the US! THAT'LL WORK!
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
-- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. V (1776)
OONJERAH
We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.
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LOL! Greatest editorial picture ever!
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Barry's bracket, much like his HOPE for America, is BUSTED !!!
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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definition of a troll: "and I refuse to chase others in a mindless, endless circle of " debate " on the internet. If I 'bitch out' of a discussion, I've said all I'm going to say on the matter, my views have been presented, and there's nothing left to add."
RUSH LIMBAUGH is a BLUE PILL ADDICT!
As evidence of "rape mentality"
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:11 PM
MAL4PREZ
And just remember, according to Rappy, the term befitting a women who wants the insurance she pays for to cover medications affecting her reproductive organs is whore
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:23 PM
little rappy
The term applies
And this is Geezer being non-partisan ... HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
Dem Super Pac slams Obamacare because it really sucks and will cause herpes
Geezer
So some Democrats are running on pointing out that the Healthcare.gov rollout was an unmitigated disaster
I feel so vindicated.
"Just glad that some Democrats are acknowledging the bad job done in developing Healthcare.com." "it'll be interesting to see if these same Democrats acknowledge" "these Democrats seem to understand what the real Obama Kool-Ade drinkers still won't address" " it's about Democrats using criticism of the rollout in their campaign ads".
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
-- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. V (1776)
OONJERAH
We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
LOL! Greatest editorial picture ever!
The best part? In steerage, there's room enough to house the homeless !
Obama cares SOOO very much !
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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