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Super-Power Showdown - US vs. China
These giants boast the world's largest economies and active militaries with their decisions influencing politics at a global level. Despite a massive trade agreement and many diplomatic meetings, the two nations struggle to maintain the semblance of a civil relationship. As pressure mounts from US leaders, China remains unfazed, coolly growing its military and economy. Master-of-Finance-Degrees provides the ultimate infographic of how these two titans of industry and power measure up when pitted head-to-head. Guess who wins?
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You gotta set the "literacy" bar pretty low to believe the US has a 99% success rate.
I've actually started hoping for a Romney win, 'cause I'm afraid we won't get a war with China quick enough if we remain an Obamanation.
with the repugs, the crisis comes fast and furious; not wet and schizophrenian.
Who loses? Everyone except the banksters and their criminal political toadies.
i won, i won! usa! usa!
thank you, monty.
but whatever it is i won i would like to trade it in for whatever is behind the curtain where carol merril is now standing.
(i hope its a box of silver or maybe even a milk cow.)
The only vote that counts is which country is a PUPPET to Tel Aviv... & which isn't...
They left out one seriously important military item.
A vast majority of service, utility, etc., hardware have chips made in China.
Which have been backdoored, accessible and controllable from afar if synched even remotely via any system interfaced in the WWW. (Public domain info, oft forgotten.)
At least most of them (China chips) are in/around the Persian Gulf.
There are no chips behind "every blade of grass".
As previously stated, this is a CONTROLLED TAKEDOWN, decades in the making.
Fruition is where you live.
Behold this.
China and the US are in a showdown like two potheads that sell each other dope are arguing over the last piece of pizza.
This stupid article reminds me of that episode of Startrek where one dude had white on the left and the other dude had white on the right side of his face. Fucking retarded, even for Zerohedge
and to top it off, I got my first splash page ad from CHASE on here before it loaded
times are a changing.. Tyler, just sell to Yahoo Finance before it really starts to show!! or get an IPO grab first
Go for it bitchez.
Reality is more like USA = 5 China = 5
They set it up that way so it can be long and ugly if war happens. Equal opponents, grinding it out.
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How would we know. I tried to go to the reference sites and is a loop back to this shit.
My questions are, if we are 4th on economic freedom and 10 in freedom of the press.
Who are the No 1's of this ? Surely we are not the smartest either. Just look at Congress.
And the score after 2000 years of play is Beijing 1, Washington (-$16.2) Trillion.
Chinese Rating Agency Says: 'U.S. As Creditworthy As COSTCO', Calculates U.S. GDP At $5 Trillion (NOT $14 Trillion)Knukles : can you name one chip manufacturer based in China ? PROC & ROC isn't the same country.
Everybody can do backdoors. Some larger share of the Microsoft operating systems vulnerabilities were put in by design. The game works both ways. Personally, I like backdoors: it means both sides will always have doubts about how secret their supersecret weapons truly are -- and that will hinder the decision to resort to engage military action.
I tried doing a backdoor last week but it got me a slap.
Ask Ben for more easing
Francis, well done.
Oh, btw, US unemployment at 9%...yea right. More like 23% and climbing.
USA obesity.....79% China obesity.....3%
It's those all-you-can-eat-chinese buffets!! I knew they were insideous! Tantilizing gluttonous Americans with deep-fried goodness for their own unspeakable ends!
MSG mutha phukas! Used to be KFC was the worlds largest user... look at what happened to their business when they stopped using. Lot's of msg in the "Chinese Chicken" ! Ticker: YUM
Unspeakable end is right. Last time I ate at one of those joints, I didn't shit right for a week. I don't even think that's chicken, WTF is it?
''The only vote that counts is which country is a PUPPET to Tel Aviv... & which isn't...''
Absolutely right. And we all know it. Why your valid statement still gets 13 negative votes is also obvious: the hasbaras are always at work. Even here! ;-)
Buy, Buy Chimerican Pie
Is this gonna be on pay-per-view?
WHAT'S WITH THE FULL PAGE ADS ON THIS SITE. IT IS ANNOYING AND SUCKS. IT FUCKING SUCKS. I CAN'T GET ID OF THEM. THIS FUCKING SUCKS.
THE LAST GREAT SITE SUCOMBS TO THIS SHIT. IT FUCKING SUCKS.
SUCKS
Get a decent browser. Dollars to doughnuts you're using Internet Exploder.
Safari. Block is fucking on. iPad
Thanks
Hmmm.... never tried Safari. Depite the news today. I do my regular internet tomfoolery on Chrome (when using Windows) and Chromium (when using Linux.) Both have adblock, and neither show any ads- likely because Google just tracks everything on it, and therefore allows the preferences to work. Opera on my phone does show them, but internet on a phone sucks IMO, so I don't even have an adblocker for it.
So, some advice, for what it's worth. Accept your relatively beneign overlords for harmless things like ranting on Zerohedge and buying shit on eBay, and take the performance hit when it matters by running TOR integrated with Firefox. It's slow and shitty, but safer than most things- I have far more faith in open-source code developed to allow people in repressive regimes to access information than I do in anyone with a profit motive.
I know that the common wisdom is that we must avoid being traced at all costs, but I could care less if .gov sees that I read a Reuter's article on a blog owned by ABC media, and then called some dude named Gully a douchebag. Leaving the 99% of shit that doesn't really matter open to dissection builds a false profile that is better than a suit of armor. Do it right, and you're just another blowhard on teh interwebz- but hide everything, and that blank spot is something worth probing. Kind of like dealing with cops IRL- you can yell whatever you want at them, and declare your rights all day long to anyone who will listen, and it'll come to no more than a misdemenor at best- but god help you if they see you hiding or ditching something.
Just another way to look at it- I like the theory, and will continue to enjoy ad-free browsing for all my "socially acceptable" behavior.
The way I see it, zerohedge has jumped the shark. T'was good while it lasted.
Actually, it seems more like the shark jumped Zero Hedge.
I rather they just sell out and get a big money grab than slowly going to slop... this infographic didnt even make sense.. USA military gets the edge for sure but not by the numbers it showed...O.o
Same here, safari/iPad.
Yes it is a hella obnoxious .
Ad took up whole screen.
Only way out was back button
I've got Firefox: just four ads with footprints I find entirely sufferable and easy to ignore.
it's called adblock
google is not pleased
I quit reading mish and Calculated risk for the same reason...
Fuck you Internet."fuck you goog
Mish is awesome. These guys need to make money somehow. Don't blame Tyler or Mish for the shit. it is what it is. thank God for something besides the lame stream fucking media...
rather ZH go subscription based.. fucking going to hell this way
Freemium? Free with ads or subscription = no ads?
Ad Muncher is my friend
http://www.admuncher.com/
awwr, the little boy is kicking the bicycle he cannot ride.
DO NOT USE GOOGLE FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN MAPS! I use exploder and have not seen anything that you have described. I am not paid for this but this is my tip to all of you. Use duckduckgo.com, click on the "at the same time" (highlighted) at the bottom left of the page and they will tell you how they work. No tracking of your searches, there for no pop ups or promo's that will be deliverd to you. FUCK GOOGLE!!!!!! Leave them people to die on their own. I know duckduckgo.com sounds "gay" but it works just as well and no tracking!
startpage.com uses google via TOR - another anonymous option if you really need to use google. I found duckduckgo just wasn't that good a search engine.
I have no full page ads but my malware software keeps reporting a threat for a malicious site whenever I load the page. Perhaps it's related.
what ad? i use chrome with adblock and haven't noticed a single thing. where were you during the last decade?
Who loses?
Everyone.
While everything is going up in smoke or nuclear whisps, the bankers, who believe they have a bunker to get to, will be forced to maneuver through the mayhem that is going on around them. With luck, people will recognize their faces and 'street justice' will be swift. I figure less than 30% will make it to their destinations. If those destinations exist.
The rest of the world will only exist as islands of scarce resources, even if 50 years of regrowth go by. By then, most of these bankers will be dead. And with luck, so will the entire kazzy nation which has pushed humanity to this brink (granted- it was done willingly by the herd leaders in each country).
Then maybe whatever crawls out of all this crap can develop something better. And with luck, they won't call themselves human, as we who are- have done nothing humane for ourselves or our children.
Ahh,I don't think so.
4 out of 5 ain't bad.
Looking for targets? Go for the Mercedes driven by people who don't look like they own Chinese restaurants.
This ongoing struggle is going to be what defines our lifetimes. I expect things to get very very heated before it is all over.
http://jimrickards.blogspot.ca/
And by "all over," you mean what?
Is it only me who remembers the quote: "never get involved in a land war in Asia!"?!?
China would win a full-on encounter that was non-nuclear (which is to say that _everyone_ loses in a nuke exchange), cause the US people cannot stomach a conflict that requires suffering actual loss and enduring real pain... I believe the Vietnam conflict can be taken as the yard-stick on what the public is willing to endure. If China has anything, it's got a populace that's willing to endure whatever it takes to get a leg up.
IMHO of course, what do I know anyways.... ?
Wait till Romney puts troops on the ground in Syria. Yes his little track runner record holder Ryann said he would do that in the debates.
rocker don't give us your obuma bs..troops are in syria just your NY times does not report it..both puppets gotta do what the string pullers direct..now tell us how good old O has stopped all the wars or why he has rained money on DHS, now thats a question nobody asks..get it?
How in the HELL did these idiots come up with military supremacy for the USA?
On Asia? China would wipe the floor with anyone else with total mobilization.
What about at sea? What about Air Supremacy? Fighting on land in mainland China is, in my opinion, a very unlikely scenario.
Oh a pissing contest, goody.
Was this article for the children, the poor Chinese kid is getting some stick in the play ground.
Only 13% live in poverty in China? I call BS.
Well it's not the same US standard of poverty. By US standards, if you don't have a cellphone, a car, a house, TV and internet, you are poor.
What's the point of a comparison if you don't use the same standards?
Not only that, but the numbers utilized for the comparison are complete horse sh*t.
History says China wins, as they possess the manufacturing base of the planet.
US has industrial military complex which supplies our #1 export; WEAPONS.
Soon to be reverse utilized.
Keep stacking my friends.
Manufacuring base wins?
When there are diminishing planetary resources, tumbling consumer buying power, and the workforce is increasingly engaged in "servicing" one another, having a declining and fully depreciated manufacuring base (US) might well be the advantage.
Consider steel. China has the world's largest production capacity, and millions are now employed constructing even more capacity. Unless somebody is going to build another whole China, this might prove redundant.
Somebody IS going to build another whole China. They call it Africa.
Consider paying the additional cost of shipping the consumed products; from China, with a
collapsing currency.
Can you hear me.
The only advantage US citizens may reap are based in preparation and microcosms.
Research history ie: Easter Island, Mayan, Inca, etc. where resources are consumed beyond
cultural survival. Hello inevitable global microcosms. Guaranteed by parasitic mentality.
None.
Except if ya' wanna make a point (hint)
So for my uber-liberal progressive gonna save the whole fucking world with somebody else's money pals...
They always talk about taxing the 1% ers... actually meaning redistributive confiscation...
They talk about a Global world we love in (hint)
So I pointed out to them that if, On A Global Basis, you make $25,000 US per annum, pre-tax, you're in the top 1% (public domain info, BTW)
They didn't like that....
They really don't like it when consistent standards are applied to "them".
Called hypocrisy
Wait till they start getting their pensions cut.
I told 'em 5 years ago it going to happen.
They laughed at me (Hah ha ha ha ha)
Ah, the Inconvenient Truth of Math
So for my uber-liberal progressive gonna save the whole fucking world with somebody else's money pals...
They always talk about taxing the 1% ers... actually meaning redistributive confiscation...
They talk about a Global world we love in (hint) So I pointed out to them that if, On A Global Basis, you make $25,000 US per annum, pre-tax, you're in the top 1% (public domain info, BTW)
I don't know how you play golf with these guys without being charged with manslaughter.
A fellow once asked me if I was stoned, which he had confused with serenity.
nmewn, I like the way you think; manslaughter, not murder.
Muppetslaughter And it's only hypocrisy when you disagree with or dislike whomever, not when you yourself do it - gee this progressivism thing is fun!
As long as its not pre-meditated...like losing control of your cart when he's got his eyeball down on the grass lining up a putt or your grip on a wedge or sumpin ;-)
In reality, they are their own punishment. To relieve them of that would just be wrong !!!
Hulk!
That be the absolute truth of truths!
The poor in the USA have all those things, plus expensive sneakers and designer nails.
The government is not handing out cellphones in China.
I like them more already.
Yes.... but poverty is relative. The Chinese are less likely to see themselves as living in poverty compared to thier community. Americans; more likely.
Americans see themselves as being poor (or not) as compared to their TeeVee.
*even if their TeeVee comes to them thru their phone
Americans are poor unless they have a refrigerator/freezer larger than a French car.
Even the poorest Americans won't eat insects.
Ah, grasshoppah, you give the sheeple fah too much credit, along with rat shit Ben.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ytff1-yf...
I thought crawdads have their skeletons on the outside too? Also, hot dogs may contain allowable levels of many things other than just rat feces, no?
We eat insects all the time. They're just not labeled as one of the ingredients.
Just think of bugs as the other white meat.
lol...the Chi-Coms would never lie about such a thing ;-)
13% of 1.3 billion...
Greeen!
Right. And all those rice farmer boys and girls can read fluent Chinese and do calculus in their heads, too, I'm sure.
:/
not to past zh standard
not like the fukinshima reporting
suspect Tyler has left the building
I welcome our future Chinese overlords.
Time to brush up on my Mandarin...
Do they give out those sweet little cute oranges?
You go right ahead with the oranges.
I'm shopping for a sweet, little, cute china doll.
China sure beats Israel. I'm in!
In Bangkok, the chinks are known as the kikes of the Orient. Kosher poo poo platter.
"Guess who wins?"
Russia?
The best thing is Chinese weapons are made in China. Their ships are made from chinese steel, the converted Ukrainian floater excepted.
The U.S. stands head and shoulders above China as a killing machine, unless it became a ground war and that ain't gonna happen.
Vlad is expertly playing the waiting game. Got Gazprom?
Imagine one day the cargo ships open up and instead of goods for Walmart, 2.3 million Chinese soldiers come running out.
I could see that happening.
Endless wave after wave of Chinese ships landing on the west coast... I don't care how much tech we have. We would be overrun just by sheer numbers.
Its like ants killing a larger insect/animal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXaaTQztoI0
I was watching TV last night and there were a bunch of Chinese soldiers over-running Fort Knox. Something about Operation Grand Slam. Has it really gotten that bad?
We stopped making tungsten filament bulbs in the US because of some brilliant idiocy in congress so all the manufacturing of same went to China.
They're raiding our Tungsten Reserves
When an audit finally happens, Bernanke can blame the missing Fort Knox gold on Auric Goldfinger. Now having been born in 86, can any of you older gentlemen confirm that forcing yourself on a lesbian in a barn was okay back in the 60's?
Confirm?
Hell, back in my days, that was when rape was a manly advance, men were men, drunks were just acceptable heavy drinkers and you could feel your secretary's buns any time without impunity because there were no sexual harassment laws or political correctness. Midget tosses and strippers were often seen about birthdays.
Look, lemme tell ya' why Wall Street is so fucked up.
If you were on a trading floor in the good old days, every other word was swearing, and each swear word had a specific meaning. Swearing was an art form. Beer was in the coke machines and 3 martini lunches were de rigeur... and if your expense account wasn't big enough, you got reamed to go party harder with the clients.
The top of the FDA unapproved consumption pyramid were drugs and alcohol, penicillin for VD treatments. Car services were on call 24/7/365 to get you from point A to Z when you were in a state of total blackout and all was joyfully accepted without question by the boss man. As long as you made lots of money for him.
And nobody had yet decided to describe their clients a "Muppets" (LOL)
Forcing yourself on a Lesbian in a Barn would have been considered good fun and sport.
Awesome! I miss those days!
The decline started when we gave women the vote. The creation of the Fed was just a smokescreen.
Pussy Galore bitchez!
Sounds a lot like Tijuana, except the coke machines dispense coke.
I would only vote this up if he said something about the Jews and communists, then that would be a classic ZH comment.
bottoms up motherfuckers.
peed myself...funny as hell dude!
BS. One M1 Tank sitting on the beach can take out 1,000 ground personnel per minute. We also have well over 150 million armed and well trained Americans with guns. If China had enough ships to carry that many people, they would all be blown apart in the water long before they got here. It's one thing to be critical of your country.It's another thing entirely to be just anti American, and a stupid one at that.
Yea, but those @$5 trillion of treasury's comming due might not roll over so easy, and they could want their money instead. Then we hit financial armageddon over night, along with another belt of price inflation, just as we have to pay all those other bills.
And how so? Countries default on their debt all the time. Hell Bernanke could print that money overnight and buy that much and then the Yuan skyrockets against the dollar and China's exports collapse. Remember, their economy is only held up by exports and slave wages. Foxconn employees working for two bucks an hour can't buy the Iphones they make. WHo's playing who for a fool here? You might want to take a few minutes to think about it. All this BS we hear about China taking over we heard about Japan in the eighties. The unstoppable economic force, the manufacturing prowess, better education, much higher savings, etc. and where are they now? If it pleases you to be nervewracked about the imminent takeover by the Chinese, so be it. Some people enjoy the adrenaline rush of hiding under their beds waiting for the boogeyman. However the facts just don't support it. China's economy is nothing but a cheap labor exporting factory. When they lose the cheap labor, their competitive advantage goes, too. They do not have anywhere near the internal demand to sustain themselves.
You are playing you for a fool. If you still believe that $2 an hr crap can overwhelm a fiat dollar, I have a river to sell you in manhatten, it's called the manhatten river and it is selling cheap. They can live and work on a bowl full of rice a day, that sustains them. Anything more is gravy just like saudi oil comming out the ground with little or no effort. So they use up their citizens trying to make money. So don't we in the form of lousy education, laws, and a whole host of ill's we can't pay for. Their citizens can buy any amount of gold at their banks, we don't believe gold is even money. They can call in our debts, we can't call in anything but a trade war. If we were not so hard headed and cruel, we might not expect to be treated like we treat others. But we are.
M1 Tanks... HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa...
I know this is all just a silly thought experiment, but does anyone really think the Chinese would do a full beach assault on the West Coast...
How many Mexicans cross the borders each & every day?... (the 'planning' process begins with that idea)...
Naturally the Chinese will land on the West Coast first. That's where most of the great Chinese restaurants are. And how else are they going to feed a cargo ship full of soldiers if they can't get takeout?
150 million armed, not true, and well trained even less so. Most retarded and pretend patriots own 20 or 30 guns while every other braindead American cries when they see one.
As far as well trained, I guess if you count Pringles, Pepsi and TV.
LOL. You don't live in a rural area, do you?
All the Chinese need to do to turn those 150 million into their 150 million is calmly explain and demonstrate to them that China controls Walmart prices. Check and mate, 150 million Americans, all of them Walmart shoppers.
What? The people who stole their good paying manufacturing jobs? Keep believing that. Hang tight. Coast to Coast AM will be on soon. The GMOs are killing us, vaccines are giving us cancer, and there are sunspots that will destroy earth before the end of the month. Quick, get under the bed.
No thanks, I'd prefer not to have DU littering my backyard. I've seen that movie before, and it ends in skyrocketing birth defects and leukemia rates.
CIA website informs China has 285m able man army (unless its been revised).
Who you referring "150 million armed and well trained Americans with guns"?
A) If 200 million chinese males between 18 and 55 disappeared overnight, do you think it might be noticed? How the hell would you expect to keep that a secret?
B) How many bullets per capita do they have? Making an army having one guy with a bolt action rifle and one guy carrying a handful of bullets is not going to win out against the billions of rounds of munitions America has
C) unless you are talking about a land war in mainland China, those numbers are meaningless. Logistics, and if going off of Asian landmass, Air and Sea power are massive factors.
D) All irrelevant since both sides have nukes; only wars might be proxy wars in Africa / Southeast Asia.
E) Does China have any local sources of materials to make massive amounts of some type of gunpowder? Maybe potash from the upper Yangtze? Or grow loads of cotton? Either way, high chance of massive food shortages as a result of misallocating resources.
you think you can stop an invasion with .22's etc?
Your scenario is wrong, but your conclusion is correct. Assume the Chinese develop a ship that can carry 5,000 storm troopers. Assume they can build 1,000 of these. Assume they can afford to launch this armada against the US West coast.
Everyone here is afraid of a domestic drone spotting them smoking a joint in their backyard. Does anyone seriously think that the Chinese could mask this fleet from American satellites, radar, drones, and aircraft? At which point, you don't need any tanks on the California shore; any ship that crosses into some arbitrary US declared exclusion zone (100 miles? 200 miles?) gets taken out by any one of the numerous varieties of smart bombs the US has on hand. Or by hunter killer subs. Or by mines. Or by.. well, you get the drift.
Same thing would hold true if the US tried to invade China or Russia, or if Russia tried to invade the US or China. It's the mathematical triangle inequality writ large.
The next big war is one of subversion. So far, the neo-fascists - already in power in Russia and China - are making huge inroads into the US. Romney is no panacea, but at least he's a stop gap. Bambam is four more years of capitulation.
My semi-serious question then is whether the government would see fit to tell the rest of us that this invasion was actually coming. Or would it just happen, followed by a lot of finger pointing by officials of the former government.
Not to burst your bubble, but those ships would be following and guarded by submarines, who could cause a lot of chaois before the big landing. I mean, who would want to move there on a $2/hr wage anyhow, and bring your own fuel.
"One M1 Tank sitting on the beach can take out 1,000 ground personnel per minute."
Who the hell would make a beach landing? If it were even remotely possible to covertly recruit, train and equip millions of chinese soldiers without anyone noticing, and then load them into shipping containers and get all of them through the borders without a single container being searched, the most successful plan would be to have them deployed to thousands of locations all at once, and probably with nuclear warheads to hold cities hostage. Do Wal-Mart shipments get checked by customs, or are they given priority and waved through?
And the dopey liberals would be standing there with open arms.
Man is that you silly willy? I heard you just got out of the junkyard and need a new ride. It's Louie, i'm a American salesman and never met a buyer that i didn't like.
If you look at the U.S. Navy's rivals, China and Russia, their entire naval forces are based on defending against American aggression. Russia has one aircraft carrier/heavy missile cruiser that carries a few jets and China as an experimental one from Ukraine, neither of which come close to American Supercarrier displacement and capability.
Russian and Chinese fleets can handle limited coastal landing support but mainly defend trade and their coasts from American carrier battle groups, which is why Russia lays claim to the most advanced anti-ship missiles.
China and Russia have neither the capability nor technology to mount American-style invasions against the United States unless they landed on the Channel Islands off So Cal and somehow moved 180+ strike/fighter jets with fuel, munitions and spare parts to said islands and constructed airbases with defenses and infrastructure and etc, etc, etc...........
........did I just write a movie plot? Apocalypse Orange County. I like that. How backed up is 110 near the Hollywood Freeway? My idea is saved here, nobody try to beat me to it.
The Russians and Chinese have superb anti-aircraft and anti-ship systems. After the first 24 hours of war we'll have no carriers and no aircraft.
Keep deluding yourself.
Emphatically not true.
There are obiously things that you don't know.
Dude. You need to spend more time reading Aviation Week. Our Pentagon is terrified of the new classes of hypersonic cruise missiles and bi-static RADARs.
Dude. I spend every day working on projects for Raytheon and BAE.
I'm more worried that they'll use their toys on us than I am about foreign military power. The Pentagon doesn't display "terror" to Aviation week until *after* the problem is solved.
I'm more worried that they'll use their toys on us than I am about foreign military power.
You can't be that worried if you still show up everyday to help them design/build/whatever...
Just like the recessions too, and now the laws. We have to pass it now, so you can find out what's in it later. Ha ha ha ha, keep that up and your day of reckoning will arrive with little waring.
Russia has no interest in invading the U.S. Why should it? Have you ever been to Russia and met the people there who are not from Moscow?(Wall Street) If any of your line of thinking held any logic to it then why not ask why China would not invade Russia for natural resources? Well, there is an answer for that as well but I will know that market and you apparently will not because you can't let go of your predilections about what goes on in that part of the world.
Amen to that. A lot of them are just Josef Sixpackovitch. Good people and besides, Russia has SIBERIA for natural resources and they are doing dickall with it.
China doesnt need to invade the USA. They just need to stand the US off while they invade Siberia (Resources, 1.31 E7 km^2 ... bigger than europe), SE Asia (wives for the gender imbalance population) and get enough troops to Africa (more living space / resources) to make taking it back too expensive for Americans.
Coastal landing? It's 2012; you can't sneak an armada across the ocean anymore. If [insert imagined enemy here] saw our armada coming, they could nuke the whole thing 200 miles off the coast, and we can do the same. The Navy is so 1945- it's only good for nuclear sub launches and picking on turd-world countries in the middle east.
It wouldn't have to happen that way. They could send a couple hundred junks at a time and land 500 people. Would we send them back or imprison them in our politically correct environment? Hell, no. We'd welcome them. They could keep doing that up and down the west coast. Soon you've got 12 million chinese in the U.S. just like illegal Mexicans. And they'll vote.
A freighter with Russian scuds tipped with Pakistani nukes sitting in the Gulf of Mexico would do the trick. Then it is lights out and we eat ourselves.
"I could see that happening.
Endless wave after wave of Chinese ships landing on the west coast..."
You say that like it's a bad thing.
And they'll all head straight to Walmart and fill out job applications.
and buy cheap cell phones
The Trojan Rabbit returns??
Nukes are a pretty effective equalizer bro'!
EPA is the single biggest threat to the future of the USA. Environmental Nazi's. When the endangered species act says that "economics will not be considered in the decision to protect a "species", then you know we have a major problem. I don't think any of us are for wrecking the environment, but evolution ya know? And who is the authority that goes and crawls over the entire earth to "count" some blind spider in texas? If it is blind and going extinct, shouldn't we let mother nature do her thing?
So, you consider a man-made strip mine to be "Mother Nature"? Natural Extinction is generally thought of as "Not Caused By Human Actions".
How few variaties of species do you think we can exist with?
"Who is number 1?"
"You are, number 6."
-- The Prisoner
Russia? Russian wife?-check, Russian citizenship for children?-check. Wealthy Russian grandma whose Soviet husband died a couple years back?-check. Real estate property in Russia?-check. Political connections in Russia?-check. Children speak Russian?-check Me? No, I am staying here. It's not about me anymore anyway.
Honestly, infographics like this one don't really teach one anything. Pretty gay if you ask me.
+1. Another useless dick measuring contest. What is this, Facebook?
At least we're bigger dicks! Uhg ..never mind