green_sky said:
mai said:
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They think there could be oil on these islands.
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Nothing! Diaoyu Islands are as much important as Falkland Islands, which the best imprtance I could think of is they're probably inhabited by penguins.
And here again people are discussing anything but what actually matters here. It's nothing like it very complicated.
There're certain ROC interests in the South China Sea which they see as fair simply because they are major force in the region. There's anti-Chinese bloc on the other side, surronding it including Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines and Japan. It goes without saying whose bitches these countries are, the US bitches :D (well, outside Vietnam maybe, but it strongly graviated to anti-Chinese block recently). All these protests about god forsaken Diaoyou island for thousands time are merely acts of the play "Who's the toughests kid on the block?".
With that being said, I always laugh when yet another weapons industry lobbyist in Congress or MSM is braging about Chinese threat (hence recent Billy Hertz article in The Washington Times about DF-41, bla-bla-blah Obama is disarming America, making us vulnerable to China, sold his soul to communists and other BS). Yeah, threat :D They're baerly able to compete with US bitches bullying them not far from their coastline. Poor Chinese.
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Thanks for your insights. The last part is quite interesting as no matter what happens anywhere in the world. The US mainstream media starts to talk about immenent threats and expanding the defense budget. Which is bigger than next 10 nations combined. I am sure there is good that comes from it but people with big money and stake (defense contracts) who benefit from conflict forget the presence of their own mortality. No prince or wizard has been able to take the billions with them after they died or atleast it seems thus so far.
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That's just because USA GDP is so high. Our military budget is fairly equal with GDP...
Actual spending as a percentage of GDP is actually less then you would expect for a "Super Power".
Plus weapons make a great export. One of few things the US government makes money on. Plus, having the used outdated weapons of the USA is a pretty strong incentive not to oppose the USA military wise.
Could do a lot without the global policing and slim down the amount of equipment a bit, but constant developing of new tech/selling the best old weapons is worth it.
