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Sly · 11-10-2012, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by MaDalton

ok, let's agree we disagree on this

i just think that nowadays economic ties are much stronger than a disagreement that causes a world war that involves millions of soldiers (which can easily ended by using nuclear weapons and then we're all fucked anyways).

just think about it:

without China Walmart would be half empty and you have no fancy Apple products

without India who will do your callcenters?

Russia is a huge exporter of gas and oil - without the western world buying it, their economy will collapse

there is no way to untie this without the whole world economy collapsing and everyone going back to stone age - and no one is going to risk that over some disagreement about some borders or something like that.

We aren't really disagreeing, I agree with you on China and Russia. It would take a lot, but I don't believe that it's "not" possible.

However, like I said, Iraq and Afghanistan. That killed our military. Two wars is tough, and both of those wars were against countries with a crippled or nonexistent economy and military. Fire up two more wars like that, three, we have the same problem.

We already have proof of this within the last 12 years. I'm not sure how anyone can deny the need based on the proof we have just seen.

Now we can go on to say "so just don't have two wars!"? It's impossible to predict the future. I would rather be prepared. I believe we can do it cheaper, so I'm definitely not opposed to budgetary cuts. I'm fine with size though.