DrDoomz said:
Soundwave said:
You also shouldn't confuse the Scarecrow with the Joker. One is far more dangerous.
Countries typically try to get in good with US politicans for gain on a domestic/local scale ie: Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saudi Arabia has a population smaller than Canada, their geopolitical ambitions in the broader sense are realtively small potatoes. They basically want a nice price for oil and want to pay off politicans on both sides that are favorable to that.
Russia will always be a big player globally, for a number of reasons, their size, their history, the number of global regions they border, etc.
There is only one country as far as I can tell that is actively trying to sabotage/influence US elections and have a global agenda. That makes one different from the others. Very different. You can try and hand wave that away but that doesn't change the reality of it.
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As shouldn't you. I find the Saudis much worse than Russia tbh. Thus I see your joker/scarecrow analogy quite the opposite as you do. There is something about religion that brings the worst in people. The only thing Russia has over SA is that Russia is much bigger/more powerful. So you might see them as a more viable short term threat. I also see that their idealogical endgame is much much worse for the world (Sharia Law) than what Russia has in store. They just don't have the power. At least not yet.
Hell, if you wanna talk about dangerous required reading that hint at world domination, check theirs out.
I don't hand wave anything, actually, my point is that you are actually the one doing the hand waving. There are plenty of threats out there. Why focus on one? Maybe you're more worried because Russia may become a viable threat to American dominance? Well, I don't see complete dominance as a good thing. Having someone in close second nipping at its heels can keep America in check, and that is a good thing IMO.
Personally, I know that there is little I can do to affect the geopolitics of the world and I find worrying snd fearmongering to be a waste of time.
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I think SA would like to have Sharia law in their neck of the woods, not even so much because I think the Saudi rulers even believe any of that shit, it's just a good way to keep the religious nutters in check. The Saudi rich wigs, they're partying it up in nightclubs and driving Lambos, they don't give a poop about Sharia.
There's no realistic way anyone with a lick of common sense could think that Sharia could become some global thing ... I mean you can't even play music ... like lol, forget ideological warfare, that would just get laughed out of the majority of the world, I'd bet even a majority of Muslims deep down think it's a load of bollocks.
I actually don't think having two forces is beneficial. The Cold War was far more dangerous than the worst threats we face today, a bunch of cave dwellers with a standing army smaller than the nation of Ethophia driving around in used Toyota trucks with no heavy infantry, like 5 tanks, no air force, no anti-air weapons, is laughable compared to things like the Cuban Missle Crisis where the world literally probably came within 30-40 minutes of a cataclysmic war that probably would mean that none of us who are typing on this forum would even probably be alive, because the course of human history would be so dramatically altered that none of our parents likely meet in the same way (and many of them probably would be dead in the ensuing conflicts).
Like the US or not, but the 90s and even the 2000s IMO were a lot safer. Having two equal superpowers jockeying for position inevitably is going to lead to a war that's going to leave hundreds of millions dead (or one of two has to collapse upon itself). We're just too stupid as a species to avoid it. Maybe in 200-300 years we'll grow out of it.
