Another US recession 'cannot be ruled out'

[fd24]

Anyway im happy and going to bed confident that the mighty US of A is on its way to going bust and this will make the world a fairer and just place. Net result less muslims and pakistans being killed around the world!

 

[Dalai Lama]

Anyway im happy and going to bed confident that the mighty US of A is on its way to going bust and this will make the world a fairer and just place. Net result less muslims and pakistans being killed around the world!

Better go to bed mate, it's getting pretty late!

 

[VCheng]

Anyway im happy and going to bed confident that the mighty US of A is on its way to going bust and this will make the world a fairer and just place. Net result less muslims and pakistans being killed around the world!

You will need to go to sleep for a loooooooooooooooong loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time, longer than Rip van Winkle, before your "dream" of America's bust will come ture.

 

[888jamie888]

Anyway im happy and going to bed confident that the mighty US of A is on its way to going bust and this will make the world a fairer and just place. Net result less muslims and pakistans being killed around the world!

You have got to be shitting me. I'm not too keen on the yanks, but who would you prefer to rule the world? A dictatorial regime?

 

[CardSharp]

You have got to be shitting me. I'm not too keen on the yanks, but who would you prefer to rule the world? A dictatorial regime?

Sigh... does the world need a hegemonic power?

 

[888jamie888]

Sigh... does the world need a hegemonic power?

No, but there will always be one, or at least countries striving to be one.

 

[CardSharp]

No, but there will always be one, or at least countries striving to be one.

Despite what you might hear about China, I truly honestly think that Chinese culture is inward looking and ill suited for global hegemony.

 

[888jamie888]

Despite what you might hear about China, I truly honestly think that Chinese culture is inward looking and ill suited for global hegemony.

Not specifically China, but someone. I think fear of the unknown heavily influences western perceptions of China.

 

[CardSharp]

Not specifically China, but someone. I think fear of the unknown heavily influences western perceptions of China.

I apologize, I automatically assumed you were going in that direction.

 

[below_freezing]

You have got to be shitting me. I'm not too keen on the yanks, but who would you prefer to rule the world? A dictatorial regime?

The US is worse than a dictatorship. In a dictatorship there is only the dictator and his inner circle that needs to be fed fat. The US wants the entire top 0.1% Wall Street bankers to be fed fat.

If the Soviet Union won the cold war, the world would be significantly better.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

If the Soviet Union won the cold war, the world would be significantly better.

The Soviet Union was really bad as well.

Better to have no global hegemons, i.e. a multi-polar world.

 

[888jamie888]

Well the people of the Soviet Union obviously did not think so. Otherwise the the Union would not have broken up. The people were kept in line by fear.

 

[below_freezing]

Well the people of the Soviet Union obviously did not think so. Otherwise the the Union would not have broken up. The people were kept in line by fear.

Why nearly 60 percent of Russians 'deeply regret' the USSR's demise - CSMonitor.com

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,634122,00.html

 

[888jamie888]

Why nearly 60 percent of Russians 'deeply regret' the USSR's demise - CSMonitor.com

Homesick for a Dictatorship: Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Okay what about the rest of the world?

 

[below_freezing]

Okay what about the rest of the world?

Oppressed post colonial states of Africa, SEA and Latin America looked up greatly to the Soviet Union. Along with China, Russia has been and always will be the beacon and model for the world's poor that don't want to end up like the Philippines.