patrick.net

The Little Guy Lobby says

China doesn't have to take us over. Just let the clock keep ticking. They OWN US already, and more everyday they keep making stuff and we keep watching cable tv and eating doritos.

This is more paranoid cable news head spinner horseshit. The Chinese economy is nothing but a shell.

If anyone's going to be in a position to be dangerous, it's us. Not only are the Europeans financially broke but they're likely to stay that way given the demographic mess that's coming.

In Japan, it's worse. The Japanese have money in the bank but no natural resources and that includes failure to replenish their population.

We have the brain power, will power, military might and natural resources to do damn near anything we want to do.

LandShark2847 says

dont expect full scale war between nuclear countries, it takes only a few hundreds of nukes to end human beings.

There have been 750 above ground nuclear tests since the invention of nuclear weapons. (United States alone detonated over a thousand, but some of them have been under ground) It would take far more than a few hundred to result in the extinction of the human race. One estimate puts the figure at 14,000, and most of the deaths wouldn't be from the nuclear strikes or radiation, but from the resulting debris in the atmosphere blocking out the sun causing world wide temperatures to drop. (nuclear winter). It's estimated that only 6,000 nuclear weapons are functional enough to be launched at a moments notice.