Reply #4: You don't have to exert any military power to break a country. All you [View All]

have to do is either make a run on the dollar or call in your loans, stop honoring another nation's debt, you know... threaten to take payment in euros instead of dollars and get invaded... you know... the simple stuff.

Then there is the ability of a foreign country to cut off oil supplies to an aggressor nation. That doesn't involve military force, well it might, and that might be why Venezuela is purchasing migs and missiles from I wanna say Russia even as we speak. You also have Russia getting ready to sell to Syria.. and who knows what sort of deal they have cut with the Iranians...

American supremacy is now a myth. The world has had enough of our crap. The hypocrisy that has been displayed with regards to S. American countries and now Iraq is a chink in our armor. We have lost credibility in the world, and rightly so.