with places like China and India its well and good to say they'll be the next superpower but so much of their population lives in poverty that it'd be too divided to be a true superpower.
Even on the army front, China and India have mass numbers of people, but no way to transport them to another country outside of their continent efficiently. America holds top dog at the moment because they have enough money to support their army and if you look like a threat you become a Terrorist and are swiftly (or as swiftly as possible) neutralised.
I say watch out once Mexico gets its shit together
Originally posted by I AM ANTHONY
well the thing about china is that yes. they have alot of people but they cant fidhgt. 100 chinese soldeirs=1 american soldeir
i love my cparry spelling
hardly. I think the whole "Black Hawk Down" fiasco showed us that a dirt poor nation can more than handle itself when it has to, American soldiers die just the same as any other soldiers in the world, irrelevant of all their tech. I said china can't deploy troops as quickly and efficiently as America can, not that their soldiers are crap.
well the thing is. in black hawk down is that. nealry all of the civallains. were equpied with guns. and for the most part the americans killed alot of them. but! there numbers do have apoint. but i think this whole thing with china is gonna kill us one by one, with war or with out. 100 people come to america with the avain flu, they infect 200, then the 200 infect 400 then 800 then 1600. so its a never ending cycle of asain deasie solow raping our american soil
um...and? so they were equiped with guns. i'm pretty sure thats what an army is. Just because they dont run around yelling "bravo alpha tango" dosn't make them less of a fighting force. "We got beatedn in combat but it dosn't count, the enemy had guns!"
And "asian disease slowly raping our american soil" (after i cleaned up the gramatic car crash you wrote). Save it for the cross burning mate.
Originally posted by I AM ANTHONY
well the thing is. in black hawk down is that. nealry all of the civallains. were equpied with guns. and for the most part the americans killed alot of them. but! there numbers do have apoint. but i think this whole thing with china is gonna kill us one by one, with war or with out. 100 people come to america with the avain flu, they infect 200, then the 200 infect 400 then 800 then 1600. so its a never ending cycle of asain deasie solow raping our american soil
Prejudice much?
I think we are rapidly entering a completly unpredicatable and emmensly globalized age, where there will be no real huge world superpower, simply becuase inter-continental and inter-country trade will be so high that one country, or even a few, can attempt to break away and take on a nation.
What may happen is whats happening now in the middle east, except on a larger scale.
Large coalitions of many countries fighting. Like for example the US and Europe supporting an Israli cause, with Asia supporting the Arab countries, and that conflict branching out. A completly global war or something.
But that would be worst case.
What's the point? Nations are fast becoming obsolete. A better question would be "What's the most powerful Corporation?"
As for military power it's America and will continue to be for quite sometime. Everyone is touting China but China's nuclear arsenal is a fraction of America's, and Russia's as well. It will be decades before China will catch up to the USA in nuclear capacity and by then more advanced and powerful weapons, such as microwave weapons, will have replaced nukes as the most feared on the block and the USA is at the forefront of those as well.
It's a good thing America isn't really willing to use it's military. Iraq, Vietnam, etc were all indeed "winnable" wars if America was willing to do what's necessary, which fortunately we're not.
Originally posted by I AM ANTHONY
mexico will be empty in like 20 years..........
You know there is (or maybe was) a move to blur the borders and essentially make the US, Canada and Mexico one. Basically linking the entire North American continent into one country wise, and that would be one F'ing super power. 'The United States of Canamerico'
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050323-1.html
Originally posted by Darth_Erebus👆
What's the point? Nations are fast becoming obsolete. A better question would be "What's the most powerful Corporation?"As for military power it's America and will continue to be for quite sometime. Everyone is touting China but China's nuclear arsenal is a fraction of America's, and Russia's as well. It will be decades before China will catch up to the USA in nuclear capacity and by then more advanced and powerful weapons, such as microwave weapons, will have replaced nukes as the most feared on the block and the USA is at the forefront of those as well.
It's a good thing America isn't really willing to use it's military. Iraq, Vietnam, etc were all indeed "winnable" wars if America was willing to do what's necessary, which fortunately we're not.