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You have the USA boldly claim that "you are either with us or against us, and if not we will bomb your ass." Only an American would be naive enough to think that anyone else in the world would reduce their arsenals in a time where such a player like the US is going rogue.
Iran will never happen, and if they do attack Iran... then this administration will be definitively on a fast track ticket to the nearest mental asylum. Iran is one of the largest providers of Oil to China. The US attacking Iran will be the last straw that would actually unite the Shia and Sunny countries surrounding Iraq and Iran. The troops in Iraq would become sitting ducks... the Iranians have the missiles to blow all the carrier groups in the gulf out of the water. The US military is over extended, and honestly since we are borrowing money we don't have to fight, we are indeed a paper tiger. This is what Putin and the rest of the world knows.
Russia, the EU and China are beefing up their militaries. And the power play is easier than that, and has nothing to do with Iran. This administration is not trying to bring the rapture or any such nonsense, if they were god fearing men the rapture would be the last thing they would try to bring as they would get a one-way ticket to hell. I personally don't think they believe much in anything other than money, religion is an easy tool for them to control the last 30% of idiots still following them, and 1/3 of the population is still significant to enable them to cement their foothold on power.
This administration is moved by a simpler motive: $$$. Having a quagmire in Iraq allows them to: a) Exploit patriotism to further their domestic agenda; we are at war, so shut up! b) It makes it easier to funnel our hard earned tax dollars to their buddies. c) It becomes easier to control people, people are either too busy with three jobs trying to make end's meet or are too busy trying to to get killed over in whatever pointless war d'jour this administration comes up with.
However, their unmitigated greed of the members of this administration is only met by their unmitigated stupidity. I think of this administration as the dumb offspring of a crime family: they are too dumb since they did not went through the natural selection of surviving the ascension to power in a crime family from the ground up, but they have the same greed and rotten nature as their progenitors.
What the US is doing is borrowing hand over fist to fight a war we can't afford. Who is giving us this money? Very simple; Japan, the EU, the Saudis, and China. The EU is fairly tired of having to deal with some petulant bunch of uncultured lowlifes thinking they own the place, and most of the money markets are controlled by them. Sorry kiddos but the old powers that be never went away, they cleaned their act and they learned to be patient and work together. So they are giving us money, and in exchange we are giving -literally- the country away. In the process we are borrowing money to literally destroy our own military. The only thing holding the powers that be at bay, was the fact that we had the biggest toys and if we find out that our top position in the pyramid was challenged we would throw quite the temper tantrum.
Once the army is filed down to a useless bunch of ragamuffins in cammo, then the people lending us money can ask for their investment back. Once Americans become petulant, they will asks us: you and what army? And it will be funny to see the average American moron scratching their heads on how this happened. Then, the Chinese will be able to control their own politics and secure the stability of their mixed communist/capitalist system. The Japanese will be able to tell us to fuck off for good. The Europeans will be able to regain their influences and secure the markets that we used to control. The Saudis will be the de-facto power brokers for the Middle East that is more eager to deal with China and the EU directly and not having to deal with imposed politics as the Americans, Russia wants to be relevant in this new paradigm, and since they have almost unlimited natural resources they want to make sure they control their cards for their world position. Basically we will see a sort of 4-point power plane in the future: A Shino-Japanese axis in the Far East balanced probably with a strong Indian contingent, which will become basically the market plane for the world. The Saudis will be the center of power for the Muslim world, again this will be balanced with a strong Iran backed by China. This will be a temporary power position as their only source of power comes from petroleum, I assume once that dries out the position of power will be more spiritual than anything. All of these foci of power will be tied together by a strong EU which will manage the movement of goods and will be backed by their presence (cultural and physical) in America, Africa, and parts of Asia. And then this power center in Europe will also be balanced by a strong Russia which will control a significant portion of the raw materials. Most importantly we will be seeing a sort of production/distribution powerhouse in the EU (materials from Russia, made in the EU, bought by Asia), large Asian markets. The United States in a few years will become irrelevant... I just need to figure out how our nuclear arsenal will become neutralized. But a similar scenario to the dissolution of the former Soviet Union may arise, a lot of people thought the Communist system in the former USSR would be preserved due to the nuclear arsenal holding things in place. Yet, the transition was able to take place w/o the whole thing going nuclear. We will be an important market of course, but politically will be left in the dust. As most other people in the world see themselves having more in common with each other than with the US, case in point everyone in the world follows soccer... no one cares about American Football.
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