Post by Sinbad on Mar 6, 2010 4:15:39 GMT -5
Mar 5, 2010 21:15:51 GMT -5 @rebecca said:
Oh, I know that Canada as well as Australia has an agreement or share of trust will Britian. But I meant that we literally are the last standing empire. How did America push west? Wars. Conquest. Manifest Destiny. Then once we reached the Pacific, where did we go? Hawaii was an independent country virtually annexed by the United States. We virtually took the Philippines from Spain. Seriously, it was like target practice. Spain was no match for the United States. The Spanish American War is just an excuse so we could take the Philippines. Really, no one asked for the USS Maine to port in Havana harbor in war-stricken Cuba. And guess what, the ship was destroyed. But what do you expect. This was war. And was Spain responsible? I highly doubt it.One has to keep in mind thought that up to a certain point, war was seen as a means of politics, and that era officially only ended after WWII which doesn´t mean that it directly vanished from every nation´s mentality even then. However, interesting idea.
I always wonder if Japan would have attacked Pearl Harbor if America didn't harass them in the Pacific. I don't know the specifics, but I see America as the bully that led Japan to declare war on the United States.
About why Japan joined. But still, they were allies with Germany and Pearl Harbor was one attempt to keep the US busy so they wouldn´t join the war.
And even today, we virtually invaded Iraq. Sure, weapons of mass destruction. Did you know the Halliburton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton , an oil company which used to be run by Dick Chaney, the Vice President at the time, was on the verge of bankruptcy. And where was most of its assets? In Iraq. So we invaded Iraq and gave Halliburton billions of dollars to repair Iraqi oil fields and provide services for the troops. And now Halliburton is a thriving prosperous company. So what was the real reason we invaded Iraq?
*nods* And quite frankly if you ask me there are several people of the previous government that should be put on trial in Den Haag.
And now, who's next? Iran? North Korea? Syria? Egypt? Or even Canada? And the frightening thing is that nobody CAN stop us. At least not now. The Soviet Union was our closest competitor.
I think something like this is also linked to the personality of those that lead a country and I highly trust in Obama having more brains like that.
Maybe China will be the next Soviet Union.
Power-wise and counterpart to US wise..possibly.
Maybe Russia can regroup its forces.
These are different times and different circumstances. It´s not about the Cold War any more.
Germany would have been wiped out if World War II happened 30 years later.
Actually, Germany WAS wiped out with the end of WWII. When it was split into 4 different zones it stopped to exist as a nation for the next four years.
But why would 30 years have made a difference? I really don´t want to know what things would have looked like in a Germany that had been under NS rule for 36 instead of 6 years before they entered war...
