Where do you stand on America?

#51
#51
It all boils down to the fact that the United States has immense geopolitical advantages that no other country, past or present, has even come close to having. The country hit a genetic lottery of sorts once it was able to control all of the territory of what eventually became the lower 48 states.

It almost impossible to screw up those advantages; it almost has to be done intentionally. The country is going to be fine but there will be ebb and flow, and if there is some sort of collapse the rest of the world will be even more screwed up than we are.

The biggest problem facing this country is a financial one; it is not terrorism, or global warming, or anything else. The government is a health insurance, pensions, and security (military) company and it cannot pay for the first two of those in their current formats. One of the most under-reported but startling facts is that the United States would have a full-blown debt and currency crisis if interest rates simply returned to normalized levels (i.e., what they were 10 years ago).

I have absolutely zero confidence this will be solved before a crisis situation forces them to, and that will be very painful.
 
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05_never_again said:
It all boils down to the fact that the United States has immense geopolitical advantages that no other country, past or present, has even come close to having. The country hit a genetic lottery of sorts once it was able to control all of the territory of what eventually became the lower 48 states.

It almost impossible to screw up those advantages; it almost has to be done intentionally. The country is going to be fine but there will be ebb and flow, and if there is some sort of collapse the rest of the world will be even more screwed up than we are.

The biggest problem facing this country is a financial one; it is not terrorism, or global warming, or anything else. The government is a health insurance, pensions, and security (military) company and it cannot pay for the first two of those in their current formats. One of the most under-reported but startling facts is that the United States would have a full-blown debt and currency crisis if interest rates simply returned to normalized levels (i.e., what they were 10 years ago).

I have absolutely zero confidence this will be solved before a crisis situation forces them to, and that will be very painful.
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Very true.
 
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Vol8188 said:
Lol how does that link in anyway prove we are wrong? We created this refugee crisis.
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The refugees are from at least 7 separate nations where religious civil wars have been started by radical islamists.

The islamists are against anyone, even other muslims, who are not fighting to create a caliphate as envisioned by the radicals. Or, they are commiting religious genocide to stamp out sects or other religions, especially Christians.

'We' didn't cause that.
 
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TennFan said:
Did some of you know that Obama cut the Army by 40,000? That's true. The Air Force is 15,000 short.
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The end strength cuts were more than that. He cut a Brigade from each active division. The end strength projections were supposed to end up being pre-WWII numbers(so less than 400k active Soldiers not to mention cuts to the Reserve Components). At the height of GWOT we were at or dang near 600k active Soldiers with close to 1 mil Reserve and Guard Soldiers. Which the state funds the Guard. And that's just the Army.
 
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Orangedogsrule said:
The refugees are from at least 7 separate nations where religious civil wars have been started by radical islamists.

The islamists are against anyone, even other muslims, who are not fighting to create a caliphate as envisioned by the radicals. Or, they are commiting religious genocide to stamp out sects or other religions, especially Christians.

'We' didn't cause that.
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Hmmm.....so we didn't fund those civil wars? Are you being serious?

Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq....yeah, we had nothing to do with any of that.
 
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Vol8188 said:
Hmmm.....so we didn't fund those civil wars? Are you being serious?

Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq....yeah, we had nothing to do with any of that.
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We've caused a lot of the instability in the Middle East since Israel was created.
 
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