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Originally Posted by DevilsSon
you don't honestly belive there is even a slight chance that the US will atatck China, do you? The momentum for that is long gone. America, needs at least 10 years to recover from the Iraq war (once it finally ends) and in 20 years time, China will have a higher GDP than America. China already are the 2nd larger spender on war technologies and research, judging by public figures. Who knows what they are doing under the table. To defaet China, one would need the whole world to ally and this will only happen if China gives a good reason for that to happen. And as a person who hast analyzed Chinese development for quite some time, I can tell you Chinese government is simply too smart to do something stupid.
Coming back to Bush, I think it's all been overly exaggerated but I know that such an attitude is not neccesarily welcomed on this forum so I won't even get into that. Although W. wasn't the best of America's presidents, there certainly were worse ones, still the country managed to recover. What it takes is just a good next president. RG, hopefully!
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i said it set a dangerous precedent that could potentially lead to them attacking china.
the fact that they're quickly becoming to a level of economic a miliatry equilibrium with the US would give them an incentive especially considering we've got two massive entities vying for control of diminishing finite resources, it's a long shot but its not totally unthinkable that it could happen. alot can happen geopolitically in 2 decades...
think about it. in 1997 as far as the western world was concerned we were pretty much conflict free except a slight blip in the balkans. all it took was the events over a few hours 4 years after that that's led to where we are now...
i doubt it will happen but the precedent for pre-emptive war has been set and there's alot of americans who would not only gladly welcome a war with iran but also one with china whether it was based on false information or not.