The Euros are right

[cia]

I reiterate, the Euros are right. We should have never gotten involved in the affairs of other nations all over the world. Especially from 1945 on. At least the the French could be speaking Russian, which is a much nicer language. The British probably would have held their own and China would have kept the Russians from getting too expansionist. Let all you dimwits fight your own battles and the US can pick when and if we desire to pound someone.
Throughout history diplomacy is simply a large gun strapped to the side of a smiling person. If any country would simply do what they say and say what they do I think this brinkmanship garbage would be ended. I long ago learned, I never threaten, I promise.

[Jon Shafer]

I agree... the US should just take the European stance and flip the world off.

[Bereta_Eder]

What you did, you did for YOUR interests
And in not so nice ways always...

After Europe, the US would be faced with a red USSR AND Europe.
You could kiss your SUVs goodbye if that happened.

So no, no gratitude whatsoever On the contrary a bit of dislike for the way you handled some things

But what it boils down to, you did it for your interests, not anyone elses

[Spiffor]

2/10 (aaaaah, first time I rate a troll )

[Comrade Tribune]

Re: The Euros are right

Originally posted by cia
We should have never gotten involved in the affairs of other nations all over the world. Especially from 1945 on.

Amen to that.

[cia]

Actually paiktis22, if you looked at your map the same way you chide Americans to do, there are no necessary resources that America does not possess within it's existing borders. So if the US wanted to tell you all to kiss off, it would no be so painful as you might think. The problem was we had expansionist persidents setting stupid policy for too long. We should have had weapons in space and a killer navy and told the rest of the world to fly a kite. We'll trade with anyone but ally with no one.

[Bereta_Eder]

nah cia.

A communist world and the US standing alone in the middle of all of it? I don't think so. YOU don't think so

[Shi Huangdi]

Re: Re: The Euros are right

Originally posted by Comrade Tribune


Amen to that.

Yup, if not for our intervention, freaks like you would be suffering under Stalinist slavery.

[cia]

It wouldn't have all gone communist paiktis22. YOU know that. They would have been ground up in the Middle East by the religious nuts, with China trying a land grab of their own. No one would touch Africa anyways, and it's a long way through warm water to invade the US. Even with me being the military tactician I could defend this place

[Agathon]

No way would the Americans have stood for a communist takeover of the Eurasian continent - that would have meant the inevitable defeat of the United States.

Once again, I refer interested readers to "The Grand Chessboard" by Zbigniew Brezinski.

[Bereta_Eder]

cia, You'd had no chance against a communist world.
Latin America would go first, of course.

[DuncanK]

At least this thread comes right out and says "America bash here." Maybe you guys can try and keep it to this thread and stop jacking all the others.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by DuncanK
At least this thread comes right out and says "America bash here." Maybe you guys can try and keep it to this thread and stop jacking all the others.

But these days it is so hard not to bash America left and right. Wherever they go, they cause chaos and destruction.

The world was a much safer place before the fall of the Soviet Union.

[cia]

Communism runs out of steam in a hurry unless there is an external threat to use nationalism as a motivating force.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by cia
Communism runs out of steam in a hurry unless there is an external threat to use nationalism as a motivating force.

I was referring not even to Communism as such in this case, but to Mutually Assured Destruction. This was what made the world safer then, as compared to now.