At 17:20 17-2-02 -0600, The Fool wrote: > > You've got a *very* good point there, and not just about Evil > > Overlords. > > Perhaps the instability in our current international situation can be > > explained by the fact that there is only one remaining superpower. > > (There were never three, but maybe the situation could've been modeled > > as the US vs. the Soviets vs. a bloc of all the other communist and > > totalitarian countries.) > >Thats exactly what happened. We had a an edge. We used it to drive the >Soviet Union into the ground. It was a great plan, exucuted for ~fifty >years, designed with one thing in mind, It was called the arms race. >Very specifically We forced them to spend all their money trying to keep >up with the arms build up of the US, and it worked, well. And given >enough time, the same plan will work with china too.
But do we really want to spend China into the ground? Look at what happened when we spent the Soviet Union into the ground. It eventually brought war to the Balkan, Russia is not exactly a shining example of a stable country, and it is essentially run by the Russian Maffia. If we now spent China into the ground, it could very well lead to wars in the region (even within China, when provinces want to become independent), and the post-communist China being run by the Chinese Maffia. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
