Recent content by volbound1700

What is incorrect about it? China basically owns Russia now. Russia is NOT strong, if they were, they would have won the Ukraine war quickly. Russia's armed forces could NOT do what we did in Venezuela this weekend (I am not cheering on that move, I am just pointing that out). Russia has...

China doesn't play soft politics well. A great example is India. India wanted friendly relationships with China in the 1940s and 1950s and China was very aggressive with them about the border and fighting over some useless mountain regions. Now they are geopolitical rivals. Nations work...

USA doesn't have claims on Russian territory, China does. That area around Vladivostok and that port itself will likely be part of China in the next 20 years. To be fair, Russia took it from Manchu China in the 19th Century so the Chinese see it as a way to reclaim their land. Go play...

China is basically the major rival of the USA. You can't cut them. You can cut Russia but not China. Even if USA cuts China, you still have most of the world trading with them. China is too big to be cut from the system. The key difference is that China was FAR SMARTER than Russia. For all...

I think that this is a way for Trump to undercut Russia personally (and China to a degree). Venezuela was allied to both. With the new oil reservoirs from Venezuela (and potentially Iran if the Khomeni falls), Trump can undercut Russia's ability to find markets for its oil or drive down the...

No they are not, they are a vassal state of China.

He doesn't have to, if Venezuela and then Iran (which is pushing for the Shah) both fall in Trump's lap, he has the oil reservoirs to undercut Russia and cut off Russia's flow of funding. I am wondering if some of the Venezuela actions are tied into finding a way to break Russia. Honestly...

Can he even do that? Most of them are in state prisons. I guess he is just talking about city jails.

Ukraine is BY FAR the most valuable state Russia lost when USSR broke up. It isn't even close. It has over 60 Million people, it was the breadbasket of the old Russian Empire, it has tons of metal resources (something Hitler went for in WW2), and was one of the major heavy industrial regions...

Yeah, I have given up on Cuba doing anything meaningful. Over half their population lives in Florida now. The fact that their regime survived Fidel Castro speaks volumes that there just isn't enough opposition and fight left to get rid of the dictatorship. USA won't do anything about it...

We should just become the Roman Empire and start talking over all these useless nations that can't manage themselves and putting governors in place. We can just make them provinces. The really good ones that work well could become states and we get more than 50 stars. Heck, we could take over...

He tried to start a war with Guyana and destabilize South America. He was condemned by basically the entire continent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_crisis_(2023%E2%80%932024)

To be fair, Clinton worked very well with a Republican Congress that was determine to cut the budget. That is why things were so nice with his regime. He didn't act like the normal POS Democrat politicians we have today. Different time and era...

I am a little concerned about this one as I don't like nation building but impressed at how they took out the leader. Venezuela has been a problem for some time and a reasonable government in Venezuela could do great things.

I don't think they are just watching Venezuela, things in Iran are getting interesting as well. Now we just need North Koreans and Russians to rise up.