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2005-01-21 Europe

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Posted by anonymous2u 2005-01-21 12:39:53 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh, foo. A teacup in a tsunami. The real conflict is the assumption, the preparation for conflict, not the actual causus belli. Both the US and China have been full-steam for a confrontation for 25 years, just accepting it as a given. Every effort to establish some superiority in the conquest of Taiwan, and really, the whole Pacific, by China, is met with an ever greater preparation by the US. At every level, with every action, both sides are preparing for the fight. The defender hopes to convince the attacker not to begin the campaign. The attacker is tantalized by the purse, the power a victory might promise. But the time is not yet. There are many preliminary fights to fight between now and then.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-21 1:32:58 PM|| 2005-01-21 1:32:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The thing that gets me is that the EU is willing to sell their souls to a communist dictatorship in order to stick it to the US. The bare dirty fact of life is that there will probably be a superpower. It will probably be either the US or the Chicoms. I do not see the EU doing this. I do not see Russia in this, either. The question is who would you like to deal with in the end: the big bad US or the big bad Chinese Communists?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-21 5:10:04 PM|| 2005-01-21 5:10:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 AP -- you have hit the nail on the head. While the China - US confrontation seems to be inevitable, the Euros have positioned them as neutrals at best.

Drop the alliance bullshit, time to have new friends. The Euros are so stupid as to believe that giving China GPS technology and weaponry will counterbalance the Americans. They are playing with fire and they will get burned.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-21 11:27:59 PM|| 2005-01-21 11:27:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I see the future of the US with Asia and the Pacific Rim. I would also like to see S America, but there is too much trouble.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-21 11:31:20 PM|| 2005-01-21 11:31:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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