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Oct 22 2022 12:06pm
Quote (JessiWan @ Oct 22 2022 08:44pm)
I doubt that. Asians, especially the Chinese, don't have what it takes to be innovators. It's a genetically determined limitation. And I am Asian myself.

People see that today's China has made lots of progress in many fields and draw the conclusion that they will eventually take over the US in every way. Not so.


Not true about genetics, its mostly the social/government structure that is responsible for this. I mean Japan is Asian and they are one if not the main innovators or at least for good chunk of time where, now look at South Korea and Singapore they too started becoming top 10-15 innovators in recent times.

Of course China where corruption is widespread and "fake communism" suppresses its people that is true. Communists can only steal/copy and change the paint on the product that then will be hyped to be "best of everything" by propaganda machine.
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Oct 22 2022 01:36pm
Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 22 Oct 2022 06:23)
None of that threatens our military dominance.

Global crisis is solved by military in part. Political crisis has no way to unfund the military when both sides want to fund it. Global military warfare and technology discoveries are driven by our military.


That's what you say, reality is much more complexe and different. Else everything would have been "solved" since a while already. It is absolutely NOT.

ie: Cheap drones, Nuclear proliferation, China rise, new military techs, are a real problem and you and your country can't change that, never will. No one can.
Else it would have been done already.

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Oct 22 2022 02:30pm
Quote (Meanwhile @ Oct 22 2022 12:04am)
"Generations ahead" ? This is a bit much, IMHO.
More like an clear milotary advance and high numbers which is the results of gigantic defense budget on decades, which could itself vanish pretty quickly in various situations like: global crisis, internal political crisis, major changes in global military warfare, global technology discoveries. Or all together.


The US's military might is predicated on its economic might, which in turn helps sustain enormous intellectual and technological advantages. If the United States were to devolve into civil war, then sure, its overseas reach would be temporarily out of service.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 22 2022 03:53am)
Yes, Russia has proven to be a paper tiger, but it would be a mistake to infer that this is also true for other nations challenging the Western-led global order.
Also, let's not lose sight of our own glaring vulnerabilities that this conflict has exposed. From our sustained dependency on energy supplies from authoritarian countries over vulnerabilities in our critical infrastructure to the sheer edge that terrorism against civilians can provide, this war has unveiled a lot of potential tactics for our future adversaries.


China spends roughly 5.5x what Russia does, so we should expect better results. But the two or three issues confronting Russia will likely present a challenge for them as well. They'll struggle to control the seas, and so they'll lose control over global supply chains necessary for a war economy. They're making every effort to modernize their NCO corps, as did Russia, but it remains a work in progress. And China has no relevant experience prosecuting a modern war, whereas the United States has plenty of recent experience operating large wars thousands of miles from home.

That being said, I've read a number of articles referencing war games in the Pacific where the United States loses (regularly). That's why I refuse to get too drawn in to the Russia saga. For better or worse, Europe is going to need to solve the Russia question. The United States needs to be focused on the Pacific, and we're well past the time where we can take fighting two or three fronts at once for granted.
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Oct 22 2022 02:55pm
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The US's military might is predicated on its economic might, which in turn helps sustain enormous intellectual and technological advantages. If the United States were to devolve into civil war, then sure, its overseas reach would be temporarily out of service. .


I don't the see the proof of "several generations" here. Not to mention that US international influence got destroyed in the last decade. Arrogance is not a performance indicator.
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Oct 22 2022 03:03pm
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I don't the see the proof of "several generations" here. Not to mention that US international influence got destroyed in the last decade. Arrogance is not a performance indicator.


The USA is by a wide margin the most influential country. We have a long way to fall before that's not true anymore
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Oct 22 2022 03:52pm
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The USA is by a wide margin the most influential country. We have a long way to fall before that's not true anymore


IMHO "wide margin" just became a "margin" in the last very few decades.
Arrogance has a price, and some people never paid the price for it, so they simply have not a fucking single bit of idea of the shit they are talking about.
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Quote (Meanwhile @ Oct 22 2022 02:52pm)
IMHO "wide margin" just became a "margin" in the last very few decades.
Arrogance has a price, and some people never paid the price for it, so they simply have not a fucking single bit of idea of the shit they are talking about.


Are you Asian?
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Oct 23 2022 06:37am
Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 21 2022 04:38pm)
real communism has never been tried, because real communism isn't real.


This. Unfortunately there are humans that feel entitled to get more than others, for free even. That's one of the reasons why humans will never able to live in communism.
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