Do We Really Want a New Cold War?

[mrstickball]

Soundwave said:

The freaking Taliban outlasted the US in Afghanistan, China is not some back water military power. In Vietnam the US got punched in the face and eventually decided they didn't want any more. The US does not have the stomach to be in a war with China, they want wars to be easy and short and that would not be the case.

China also holds tremendous amount of the US' debt, they could collapse the US economy by calling it in. Most large US corporations also do business in China and $$$$ is what controls the US gov't not principals or morals.

The situation is not simple.

You may not know this but China fought Vietnam shortly after the US-Vietnam war and lost as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

Vietnam was able to continue to impose their will on the Khmer Rouge after the Chinese conflict which was their aim.