OK, your explanation , which I apprecdiate, sounds sensible and factual, and fits into the
picture for me, to help me undetrstand the inside track. Most of the stuff I read here is just from
people who 'hate' the u.s. and will write anything to trash them, so that doesn't help me understand
the facts.
I made a mistake in my post. The ratio is 1:7 not 1:9.
So then, when are we all going to stop calling the u.s. 'the most powerful country' in
the world, and call them 'the most pitiful' country in the world, cause it seems that
they are imploding. When will they begin to eat their own misery instead of spreading
it all over the world. When will the sign be put on the u.s., SOLD, and the new owner
will be China, and maybe, just maybe, that will be better for all of us.
The US isn't the most powerful country in the world, I completely agree with you, but that can't be demonstrated without a 3rd world war. They have so much propaganda and huge military budgets that they look powerful but they have so many weaknesses that they couldn't possibly be. There is a big - huge - difference between a war of attrition and anything they have ever been involved in. I don't think their military planners are aware of this little fact; they seem to be buying their own BS. With todays technology and the proliferation of nuclear weapons any country can toss them into utter chaos on a whim. I'll give you one example:
The Department OF Homeland Defense released a report on the USAs vulnerability to a HEMP attack, that is High [altitude] Electro Magnetic Pulse. Basically a high yield nuke going off over the central USA between 40-60 miles above the ground will compress the atmosphere which will act as an antenna spreading the pulse over the entire USA parts of northern Mexico and southern Canada. The report said such an attack would set the USA back into the 1800s. No infrastructure would function, large scale farms would be unworkable, and it explained that the population would have to go through an "adjustment" since the USA wouldn't be able to support 300 million people but only around 10 million. All electronic equipment would fail and need to be replaced. It would have to be brought in from Europe since the USAs capability to manufacture would be completely lost. The report estimated that it would take centuries before the USA even remotely resembled its former self, if ever. The report went on to explain that since the end of the cold war the US military has been buying off the shelf electronics to save money instead of using their own much more expensive components which are properly shielded from electro magnetic radiation. The report said this meant such an attack would mean the US military would be completely crippled. They wouldn't be able to communicate, their vehicles wouldn't function and more importantly they wouldn't be able to launch a nuclear retaliation or even be able to tell where the attack came from!
I'll take you back to the second world war where Japan sent incideraries by balloon through the high altitude winds which reach speeds of 200 mph. There was at the time a radio blackout on reporting the attacks and since the Japanese didn't hear any reports of their attacks working they stopped. Canada has released the information (freedom of information) but the USA still holds this information as classified. The attacks were actually very successful and hit parts of Canada and the USA. My grandfather told me about them hitting the Okanagan and now it has been shown they also hit the Kootenays. They also hit many places in the USA. So basically the USA is vulnerable to North Korea or anyone else sending a HEMP attack via balloon! That is very vulnerable IMO.
That is only one example. There are many many more.
The American culture holds individualism and self-reliance as their most redeeming feature but unfortunately in this day and age that antiquated notion is no longer valid. They are left with two choice: join the world community and enter into agreements for world disarmament (which they have flatly turned down over and over again) or dominate the world. Unfortunately they have decided on the later rather than the former and this is ultimately going to be what destroys them.
We see the USA turning into a corpocracy (corporatism) because democracies are notoriously bad at war (Vietnam syndrome) and if they want to dominate the world they need to become fascist. It has to happen or else they need to join the world community, which isn't probably going to happen, but they are trying to maintain the veneer of democracy. They have turned into the very thing they hate. A one party system with two factions. It is important to remember that many jackboot states have great glorious elections but that is irrelevant. What is important is who runs things and call the shots. In Russia it's Putin and in the USA it's corporations. Corporations love war. Wars are very profitable for them.
Anyway, that's how I see it.
Again, this isn't some kind of conspiracy. I recommend reading
Brzezinski. He openly touts the merits of corporate lobbying as a fair means for the USA to dominate the world. In his estimation the fact any country can "lobby" (a.k.a bribe, nudge nudge wink wink) means that it is a fair system superior to that of the UN. In short: complete world domination under a system of corruption by a single countries political elite.
"American foreign policy must remain concerned with geopolitical dimension and must employ its influence in Eurasia in a manner that creates a stable continental equilibrium, with the United states as the political arbiter."
"Most foreign governments also employ American lobbyists to advance their case, especially in congress, in adition to approximately one thousand special foreign interest groups registered as active in America's capital.../
\... American supremacy has thus produced a new international order that not only replicates but institutionalizes abroad many of the features of the American system itself."
- Brzezinski,
The Grand Chessboard
Remember too this guy is the Democratic Henry Kissinger! Brzezinski is considered a dove but I have trouble sepperating him from the neocon camp.
