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Post by Swampy on Aug 25, 2012 9:38:51 GMT -5
So what? The Soviet Union had that, but it no longer exists - and don't forget Reagan's threatened SDI brought it into an economic competition it couldn't win. China cannot win a competition against the US either. At least the Soviet Union's buildings never keeled over.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Aug 25, 2012 9:50:56 GMT -5
So what? The Soviet Union had that, but it no longer exists - and don't forget Reagan's threatened SDI brought it into an economic competition it couldn't win. China cannot win a competition against the US either. At least the Soviet Union's buildings never keeled over. The US beat down the Soviet Union because we could outspend them on defense. Can we outspend China today? |
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Post by Swampy on Aug 25, 2012 10:08:13 GMT -5
I'd say yes. China's economy is just 40% of the US one, and the Chinese economy will slow down soon, if not crash.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Aug 25, 2012 10:30:09 GMT -5
I'd say yes. China's economy is just 40% of the US one, and the Chinese economy will slow down soon, if not crash. But we're currently 16 TRILLION in debt (much of it to China). Will they lend us money to be able to outspend them? |
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Post by Swampy on Aug 25, 2012 10:34:50 GMT -5
Good question. But, if we cannot outspend them, we still have our bigger economy and our allies - Australia, Canada, and whatever parts of Europe that can still afford to send troops. China will be facing us by herself, just as the SU was, in effect, facing us by itself.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Aug 25, 2012 10:51:35 GMT -5
Stanley, Please ask Sir John how many troops Australia can send, and check with your countryman, who wrote a book on the subject, how many troops Canada can send, and Europe is in worse economic shape than tue US, so don't expect much help there. In defeating the SU, it wasn't how many troops could be sent 'to the front' but how many tanks, planes, missiles and satellites could be produced..... These thing cost money unless the population can be made to produce them as slave labor and, should push come to shove, the Chinese can probably come up with a larger slave labor force than could the US...
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Post by Swampy on Aug 25, 2012 10:59:08 GMT -5
Didn't think of that ... but the Chinese low-wage laborers will NOT be able to operate sophisticate electronic equipment, and, in any fight between the dragon and the eagle, everyone will be siding with the eagle - including Russia.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Aug 25, 2012 11:17:28 GMT -5
Didn't think of that ... but the Chinese low-wage laborers will NOT be able to operate sophisticate electronic equipment, and, in any fight between the dragon and the eagle, everyone will be siding with the eagle - including Russia. Another thing to think about is that any war (heaven forbid) between the US and China will probably NOT be fought on US soil, thereby lengthening the US supply line and making it more vulnerable to interdiction, and increasing the time and expense of resupply. |
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