Would you want your country defending America?

[stof]

Kasz216 said:

stof said:
Alright, here's my insane hypothetical two cents on the China scenario. If China really decided to push themselves outwards and start annexing other countries, I'd imagine they'd want to go northwest instead and fight Russia for some of the Stans first. That's probably the only War they could fight without drawing in the whole world against them.

I can't imagine too many other nations eager to sign up against either of those countries for the sake of a Stan, not to mention that once begun, Russia wouldn't exactly have the moral high ground either, so international judgments of right and wrong might fall on both sides.

However, if China finds themselves in a major military engagement anywhere in the world, I think they'd quite quickly have larger problems to deal with in their own borders. Tibet, Xinjiang and several ethnic groups we're not even familliar with
Would probably begin fresh and invigorated pushes against the government, and Taiwan and HongKong would want the hell out.

Not to mention there's a whoppingly large middle class now that's a bit more interested in their standard of living than the size of their borders. Unprovoked military aggression by China on a major scale could even be the tipping point to finally bring the people against their government.

At least, I'd like to think it would.

I agree there... they could get some ok technology and armarments attacking Russia as well.

 

The rest... i'm not so sure.  Would the middle class be effected much by the war?  You look at the US... and we haven't been hit at all by the two wars we've been in.

 

I should have tempered the "anywhere in the world" statement. The US hasn't been effected that much because the war is so distant. But an invasion of Mongolia and Kazakstan would definitely bring the country in to direct conflict with Russia. The U.S. never had to worry about the Republican guard rolling it's tanks through their neighborhood. Two major military powers that boarder each other would be monstrous for all involved.

 

Of course, there'd be the hope that both countries would want to avoid that and would merely cut up the stans and Mongolia to their liking like Korea. Infact, if there's another major war in our lifetime, I'm farily certain it will end up with the Stans mostly occupied.