Empire_of_the_mind

Your key statement which I was responding to was: "Right now power difference is just way way way bigger then it ever was."

My view is that you are incorrect, wildly so. The rest of the world is very much on the rise these past twenty years and very far along the path of upending the US empire's strangehold on the world. This is why the US is lashing out and being aggressive - it's an effort to prempt the rise of the rest of the world.

To illustrate the decline:

Here's your list of pathetic wars that exposed the US millitary in the past fourty years:

Vietnam Afghanistan Iraq

Here's a list of former vassal states of the US empire that have thrown off the chains in the past 15 years or so:

Venezuela Brazil Bolivia Argentina

Here's a list of active resistors to the US agenda:

Malaysia Iran Cuba Russia Syria

Empire_of_the_mind

obviously the rest of the world is not indifferent to the USA - have you ever even left the US?

Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur

Empire_of_the_mind

amateur hour, brah

Empire_of_the_mind

you're completely full of shit and/or a retard. i hope you're getting paid to write this, because it's way more pathetic if you're not

Empire_of_the_mind

you are vastly underestimating the rest of the world

Empire_of_the_mind

if your knowledgeable about history the bells of war are ringing very loudly right now. this era is a bit of a combo of the days before WW1 and the early days of the cold war. Those are not promising omens!

mojo4567

Mind explaining? i am not ver knowledgeable about those era's and this seems important and interesting.

Heimdallr

Going off from the book @Empire_of_the_mind suggested, I recently picked up "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War" by Patrick J Buchannan and it's been well worth the read so far.

Given the subject matter and viewpoint, calling the world wars the 'unnecessary war', it received mixed reviews. You can find criticisms on the Wiki page here , but I still think it's well worth it if you're going to start diving into that part of history.

Empire_of_the_mind

Well, these are big topics with tons to read so there's no real tl;dr, but if you want to start on WW1 read "The Guns of August" and for cold war I suggest watching Oliver Stone's Untold History of the US documentary. These both cover the periods leading up to war and give you a good window into what it looked like.

Regarding WW1 - the big thing there was alliances. All the powers of Europe had entered into various defense pacts with each other - once a war started in one place it was thus inevitable that everyone would get involved, and that's exactly what happened.

Regarding the cold war - this was mostly the US flexing its muscle and basically daring anyone to pick a fight with it. The reasons we avoided a big fight have less to do with the US and more to do with the rest of the world, their weakness at the time, and the reality of WW2 which had ended recently.

The similarities are that we have extensive alliances, NATO in particular, that can easily drag us into war. Our stance is also very similar to the early cold war years, except we're not in nearly as strong a position and our opponents are not nearly as weak.

Defense pacts plus aggressive US plus ascendant rest of the world is a recipe for war.