So Trump ordered General Soleimani Assassinated, and now people are crying for WWIII....

[pineapplemike]

what is SIFCLF again?

Sky Is Falling Chicken Little Faggot

cool thanks ill ask again in 6 months when it comes up again

[Smitty-48]

Neither the regime in Moscow nor the regime in Beijing would likely survive a global hegemonic succession

Crazy shit happens in a hegemonic succession, you can't control that shit once it starts to roll.

The Chinese don't actually want to bring America down, because that would bring them down too.

If there is some Hegemon to replace America, I don't think it has come into existence yet, it hasn't appeared.

If the Chinese overthrew the Communists and became democratic, that would be the most likely candidate.

So long as China is run by these Commies tho, they are a paper tiger, nobody is fleeing to the rule of Beijing.

[clubgop]

That’s more about our natural resistance to ‘multi-national government’, and absurd over-regulation.

When we see dozens of unique cultures being absorbed into some kind of weird conglomerate, we recoil.

And yes, I say this even as I laugh at the idea of CW2. By the time they’ve established their own army, it’s too late to get out.

How's that under regulation working out in Flint? How about the hormone-injected meat your kids eat or the bleached chickens?

It's a trading block, the biggest threat to European cultures is coming from the US. Mc Donalds restaurants on every street teaching kids to eat junk. US films mangling history with their tales of how Americans cracked the Enigma code and won WWII single-handedly.
Our soldiers getting dragged into your wars of imperial aggression to secure oil for your gas-guzzling V8s.
It's not the EU absorbing unique cultures into a homogenous blob.

It’s a lot more than that, and you know it.

And fair point on Flint, but our culture being dominant is not the same thing as us imposing regulations on other nations.

That is not a fair point on Flint and the two of you are absolute drooling retards for believing that. Water in the US is a municipal function. Regulations have very little to do with it. The Federal government has no role andshouldn't have one. Just because the Democrats in charge of Flint for decades can't get their acts together to do so doesn't mean you can point your dirty dick in the direction of a Republican or some corporation.
Basic municipal government added to the list.

[Smitty-48]

I would submit that this whole Xi Jingping Stalinist retrenchment could be the death knell of the Communist Party.

Most of the Communists who came before him are against it, they call it a fantasy which is doomed to fail

The Chinese are not feeling anymore secure than America is, they show their fear by their excessive saber rattling, they overreact to small things, they're not acting like they are in charge of anything.

China is the ultimate fake news, it's a basket case, they just don't have a free press to report that to the world.

[The Conservative]

Neither the regime in Moscow nor the regime in Beijing would likely survive a global hegemonic succession

Crazy shit happens in a hegemonic succession, you can't control that shit once it starts to roll.

The Chinese don't actually want to bring America down, because that would bring them down too.

If there is some Hegemon to replace America, I don't think it has come into existence yet, it hasn't appeared.

If the Chinese overthrew the Communists and became democratic, that would be the most likely candidate.

So long as China is run by these Commies tho, they are a paper tiger, nobody is fleeing to the rule of Beijing.

The last group that tried to be a "Super Power" to compete with the US was the EU, and it worked for a little bit, but then the bill came due and they couldn't pay it.

[SuburbanFarmer]

How's that under regulation working out in Flint? How about the hormone-injected meat your kids eat or the bleached chickens?

It's a trading block, the biggest threat to European cultures is coming from the US. Mc Donalds restaurants on every street teaching kids to eat junk. US films mangling history with their tales of how Americans cracked the Enigma code and won WWII single-handedly.
Our soldiers getting dragged into your wars of imperial aggression to secure oil for your gas-guzzling V8s.
It's not the EU absorbing unique cultures into a homogenous blob.

It’s a lot more than that, and you know it.

And fair point on Flint, but our culture being dominant is not the same thing as us imposing regulations on other nations.

That is not a fair point on Flint and the two of you are absolute drooling retards for believing that. Water in the US is a municipal function. Regulations have very little to do with it. The Federal government has no role andshouldn't have one. Just because the Democrats in charge of Flint for decades can't get their acts together to do so doesn't mean you can point your dirty dick in the direction of a Republican or some corporation.
Basic municipal government added to the list.

Defeat the EPA by pretending it doesn’t exist... good strategy.

[clubgop]

It’s a lot more than that, and you know it.

And fair point on Flint, but our culture being dominant is not the same thing as us imposing regulations on other nations.

That is not a fair point on Flint and the two of you are absolute drooling retards for believing that. Water in the US is a municipal function. Regulations have very little to do with it. The Federal government has no role andshouldn't have one. Just because the Democrats in charge of Flint for decades can't get their acts together to do so doesn't mean you can point your dirty dick in the direction of a Republican or some corporation.
Basic municipal government added to the list.

Defeat the EPA by pretending it doesn’t exist... good strategy.

Does the department of education control the curriculum of local school districts? You think so, so the EPA controls municipal water systems. You are a dumb stupid idoit who doesn't know how government works. The EPA has as much power over municipal water systems as the Department of Education does over local schools curriculum.

[SuburbanFarmer]

That is not a fair point on Flint and the two of you are absolute drooling retards for believing that. Water in the US is a municipal function. Regulations have very little to do with it. The Federal government has no role andshouldn't have one. Just because the Democrats in charge of Flint for decades can't get their acts together to do so doesn't mean you can point your dirty dick in the direction of a Republican or some corporation.
Basic municipal government added to the list.

Defeat the EPA by pretending it doesn’t exist... good strategy.

Does the department of education control the curriculum of local school districts? You think so, so the EPA controls municipal water systems. You are a dumb stupid idoit who doesn't know how government works. The EPA has as much power over municipal water systems as the Department of Education does over local schools curriculum.

I’m fairly certain they mandate the acceptable levels of lead in the water source, so... yep.

[heydaralon]

My aunt went as a missionary to the EU. She said it was really sad. Most of those folks only had electricity in their homes for a few hours per day and were forced to defecate in the streets due to poverty and ignorance. She said the saddest thing was the way that they would have to put their prayer mats in the sewage choked streets and kneel toward Mecca. The Carbon cult is another big religion there, where they think that the America that keeps them above water is some evil polluting Satan and that by reducing carbon they will somehow be saved. In totalitarian regimes, the leaders often brainwash the populace to give up liberty for silly reasons I guess. I pray for them, even if they are ungrateful freedom hating communists. Maybe one day Europe will be relevant again...


Its too bad most of the continent doesn't have oil, because if they did America could set up some kind of mandate over them and help guide them into national adulthood. Right now, they are too weak and stupid to make good decisions. The best thing for them would be to keep their heads down and hope that America remembers they even exist.

[Montegriffo]

That’s more about our natural resistance to ‘multi-national government’, and absurd over-regulation.

When we see dozens of unique cultures being absorbed into some kind of weird conglomerate, we recoil.

And yes, I say this even as I laugh at the idea of CW2. By the time they’ve established their own army, it’s too late to get out.

How's that under regulation working out in Flint? How about the hormone-injected meat your kids eat or the bleached chickens?

It's a trading block, the biggest threat to European cultures is coming from the US. Mc Donalds restaurants on every street teaching kids to eat junk. US films mangling history with their tales of how Americans cracked the Enigma code and won WWII single-handedly.
Our soldiers getting dragged into your wars of imperial aggression to secure oil for your gas-guzzling V8s.
It's not the EU absorbing unique cultures into a homogenous blob.

It’s a lot more than that, and you know it.

And fair point on Flint, but our culture being dominant is not the same thing as us imposing regulations on other nations.

What movie are you referring to? Last one I saw about Enigma was with Sherlock Holmes in a British warehouse, being gay and sad, and inventing the computer.
The one before that was Americans capturing a U-boat and handing the machine over to you.

Yep the U-boat film. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-571_(film)