shockedcanadian
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China spends less yes, but consider how much cheaper local military technology is especially when they don't spend as much money in R&D since they steal those technologies and build copy cats. Many Russian and American technologies are copied by China at much cheaper costs and definitely less costs in the beginning of the process. Due to hacking, espionage, theft they have all they need, especially when there are no consequences for China, why would they stop?
You overlook an important point to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the weapons America had in Turkey. MAD wasn't even coined at this point, I am referring specifically to the 1980's where America and Russia had enough nukes to destroy everything multiple times. There should have been logic then about limits of nukes as had certainly reached the stage of diminishing returns, but, I might have argued that the Star Wars project was worth pursuing. The ultimate deterrent that had Russia quite worried.
America doesn't have to declare itself anything, it just has to be. Whether you like it or not, acknowledge it or not, without America's leadership we will be looking at a very different global environment, one that I don't want to experience. For the record, I'm not someone who supports war, I'm one who supports strength to avoid war. The real empires of 2016 are built with economic strength, something other nations are taking advantage of when dealing with America,
You overlook an important point to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the weapons America had in Turkey. MAD wasn't even coined at this point, I am referring specifically to the 1980's where America and Russia had enough nukes to destroy everything multiple times. There should have been logic then about limits of nukes as had certainly reached the stage of diminishing returns, but, I might have argued that the Star Wars project was worth pursuing. The ultimate deterrent that had Russia quite worried.
America doesn't have to declare itself anything, it just has to be. Whether you like it or not, acknowledge it or not, without America's leadership we will be looking at a very different global environment, one that I don't want to experience. For the record, I'm not someone who supports war, I'm one who supports strength to avoid war. The real empires of 2016 are built with economic strength, something other nations are taking advantage of when dealing with America,
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