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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.04 22:29:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 04/09/2010 22:30:49
This is another armchair sport. Frankly put the world is still in the thrall of western christians. But the seams are unravelling. Having thought the west defeated communism in the cold war the USA now finds itself in the position that China is its banker. The right in USA has decided to stigmatise muslims as sharp toothed blood drinking pirates. Well that is stupid and 1 billion muslims on this planet are not going to vanish down a rabbit hole.
Europe will muddle on. But for USA to muddle on is not enough to retain its no#1 status. It's loosing its edge. A cultural war between the left and right in the USA is not helping. And a moronic idealogy in the USA of exporting one size of democracy fits all.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.05 23:41:00 -
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I got dental treatment in the UK when I was 21 as I agreed to go to a dental school. The trainee dentists did a lot of assement but a qualified dentist actually did the work.
If your over 18 in the UK and need dental work query your local dental school\hospital. They most likely are only in major cities.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.06 10:19:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 06/09/2010 10:26:47
Most Americans are not interested in foreign policy whereas its elite is deeply so to continue it's global hegemoney.
As it happened to the British empire if you top dog in the world you are going to get a lot of emotions aginst that. Jealously, bitterness, annoyance at being clumsy. If USA did retrench then the EU would have to step up to the plate. Then the Euro's would have to increase milatery spending at the expense of welfare spending.
Problem USA has it that it is the first global power that does not do colonalism with foreign territory. But it does it economically. So it has a poor record in nation building. After the conquest of Iraq Donald Rumsfeld was given a 900 page report by the state department on how to rebuild Iraq. He just put that in the bin.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.08 13:43:00 -
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What Toshiro said about a vac****of power if USA withdraws has a lot of truth. USA does operate, as any superpower world with divide and rule. But if they actually did pull back it could be a case of better the devil you know for western interests.
The quickest effect of US retrenchment would be the proliferation of nuclear weapons in many lesser states.
And with USA's strategic economic model based around high milatery spending it pays a social price with higher crime and poverty for those at the bottom of the pile. Although the percentage of taxation to GDP has crept up a fair bit recently.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.08 15:23:00 -
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I watched a tv program years ago that talked to American rednecks. One of them simply said 'education is good n'all but I need to know how to skin a chicken and cook it more than learning physics'.
I think the morale of that is there is much to be said for living of the land. Urban people are more wanting, fickle and spoilt.
I think someone who lives in a big city will have more common perspectives with someone else from another country in a big city than someone who lives off the land in their own country.
Imo progress is three steps forward and one step back. We mostly gain but we also loose something for the sake of progress.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.09 13:12:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 09/09/2010 13:14:24
Wiki:-
No plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.[24] U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower lost his interest in the race to Berlin and saw no further need to suffer casualties in attacking a city that would be in the Soviet sphere of influence after the war General Eisenhower foresaw excessive friendly fire if both armies attempted to occupy the city at once.[26] The major Western Allied contribution to the battle was the strategic bombing of Berlin during 1945.[27] During 1945 the United States Army Air Forces launched a number of very large daytime raids on Berlin, and for 36 nights in succession scores of RAF Mosquitos bombed the German capital, ending on the night of 20/21 April 1945 just before the Soviets entered the city.[28][/i]
The battle of Berlin was a huge bloodbath. Russian casulties was 361,367 men and for the Germans 937,378 men.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.09 18:05:00 -
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The industrial capacity of the USA was massive and it was a key to winning WW2. A Japanese admiral lamented this after they attacked pearl harbour. Also Russia's capability to churn out so many tanks in new manufacturing plants in eastern Russia was amazing.
Though a big future war will be different from WW2 as far as milatery hardware resupply goes. High tech manufacturing is very specialised. If an air force say runs out of missiles it can't get a car factory to make more as it requires special composite materials and classified electronics.
Though the Pentagon has a huge bureaucracy that studies all sorts of scenarios. They may have contingencies for resupply.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.10 12:56:00 -
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The Dutch have a more slimline royal family. They don't adorn themselves in old fashioned regalia. They wear smart suits and cloths. And do various stuff for charitable causes. Most Dutch are modestly very proud of their royal family.
Would this be more suitable for Britain? I don't know really. There is a lot of liberal rubbish that making the UK a republic would make it more egalitarian. Well the French killed off all their royalty over 200 years ago with great fanfare. But yet France is a more elitist country than the UK.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.13 14:31:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 13/09/2010 14:33:57
Since WW2 the world has enjoyed a state of relative peace unknown prior to WW2. Nowadays leaders of countries want to make money with countries more than fight with them.
Although the old chestnut of peak oil could fuel a huge war. If we actually get to a point where demand for oil really does outstrip supply then that really will create negative sentiment.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.09.13 16:44:00 -
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Smart move: USA arms deal to Saudi Arabi worth $60 billion
Can't beat fuelling an arms race at your own profit 
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