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Soundwave on 05 December 2016
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Egelo said:
Soundwave said:

This is the type of thinking that almost destroyed the world during the Cuban Missle Crisis during the actual Cold War. JFK's military chiefs were convinced nuclear war with Russia was inevitable, if he had listened to them likely most of central Europe, China, Russia, and the probably a major US city like New York would've been eradicated in nuclear war. 

JFK + Khruschev saved the world from more extremist elements in their power ranks, I have no doubt of it. The thinking that war is inevitable and thus a first strike must be implemented is extremely dangerous, none of us posting on this board would likely even be alive to post because human history would've been so radically different. 

lol no.  China is no miltary match they are not getting into a cold war with the US, Soviets did casuse thast all they had.  

China US will clash is coming, better it be now and a trade war.  Will balance out the world.  Letting them go uninterupted out of some patetic fear is well pathetic.

You're not really following your own circular logic here, so China is less dependant on the US, if they are less dependant on the US, they would become less incentized to not piss off the US, not the other way around. 

"Cold Wars" are proxy wars too, not direct conflicts. 

The thing about China is, good/bad/indifferent one thing I think is they can be quite vindictive. The US doesn't have a monopoly on being an ass, lol. So if you piss them off, I think what will happen is a lot of unintended things. 

Like for starters it wouldn't surprise me if China started pumping money towards North Korea, ISIS, Iran, and every other which way to give the US as many headaches as possible. Russia basically already does this, with China it would be worse, I think they would make it a point to destablize every type of global interest the US has. 

That's what I think would be the problem. The idea that China would just say "yes sir, may I have another" after being slapped in the face, I don't buy. Of course the US is more powerful militarily, but China could also blow the world up 50x over if they wanted to and even have tactical advantages in certain areas, like hypersonic missles.