@I:
Do you guys have any opinions about wikileaks and what they do? I'm conflicted, I admit, but will wait to expound until you guys post, so as not to look stupid, lol. (and not to inluence anyone else)
Well being that the Internet Censoring bill is actually in congress, and this guy does this shit right when its in Congress pisses me off, It just ASSURES that the Senate and House are going to pass that internet site blacklisting bill,
Thanks Jason asshat
I have no love for wikileaks now, just give governments the excuse to take our freedoms why dont ya?
A;though the bit on the arab nations hating on Iran and wanting them wiped off the map was interesting. . .still wrong place wrong time…
@Bucephalus:
On the note of Korea, I'm not quite sure what to think of the recent events in that area.
There's clearly no doubting that South Korea is in more danger in the face of North Korea than it's ever been. Even back during the Korean War, when N. Korea had authoritative control over Seoul for a while, it wasn't this serious of a situation, as N. Korea didn't have weapons anyway near as destructive. The notion that N. Korea has ten nukes is incredibly frightening. While I'd like to find solace in the fact that China could retaliate brutally and swiftly upon N. Korea should they try anything on their neighboring brother country, Kim is too irrational and sociopathic to predict. Not only is he essentially insane, but he's dying, and there's absolutely no telling what he might pull. I'd even argue that he's more dangerous than Putin was a decade or so ago; he's just as dangerous militarily, but perhaps even moreso given his unstable mindset.
Hopefully this'll blow over like previous skirmishes between N. Korea and S. Korea, but I just can't tell at this point. Any day I could wake up and Seoul could've been reduced to ashes. May as well play the waiting game for now I suppose.
Itll blow over, sure kim is crazy and dying but the top brass that keep him in powe. . .prison arent going to let their hard work (brainwashing their people for 60 years) go to waste, they would probably kill him and install a new leader before anything was done to seriously bring CHINAS wrath to them. . .yeah America saying fk it Ive had enough would be bad but. . .China gives them all their food since they kill all their own farmers and people etc etc
Personally I think NK acts up to keep China as its Hostage, like saying you better keep giving us food and money or else this nation will collapse, and when it does its gonna hurt all around.
China, NOT wanting this to happen and NOT really wanting to have ANYTHING to do with NK but cant ignore them cause they are right on their border, anything that NK does has a possibility of destroying Chinas own Stability (you know, oppressive government, controlling its people etc etc)
which is already on edge because of the economic crisis. Which is why China would just rather have NK. Stfu than to team up with the Americans and destroy their Nuclear Facilities-which is what they SHOULD have done in the Clinton Era. That would have sent a clear message that NK couldn't ignore because well its CHINA and they had no Nuke program then.
The world economy was also booming at that time, so china could have absorbed the shock of NK refugees, or just take over NK for a while and rebuild it or whatever.
its too late for any of that now people are forgetting that NK is the country that is setting the rules because they know that
China wont and really cant do anything about them at this time
the U.S. wont really do anything with fighting 2 wars already
the rest of the world wont do anything with the worldwide economic down turn
SO basically NK has the eastern world Hostage
Unless China does the Unthinkable. . . .
If China cant handle Refugess from a failed state, but China feels the need is strong enough to get Rid of that failed state. . .
What unthinkable act do you think they would do?
(and no they wouldn't nuke NK)
Personally I think all this will HAVE to blow over, because the consequences of it NOT blowing over would be to grave for any side to bear
if the top brass of NK gets tired of kims shit and endangering their regime, hell be killed and then if the country doesnt collapse from that they will; have to do all the hard work of getting a new leader (because the family would be killed of course)
If the country Collapses or goes to war with SK China will have to intervene to keep the fallout from NK refugees fleeing to China in Droves - remember china has a population problem AND trying to keep its pissed off people happy during the economic crisis, while being repressive etc etc China doesnt need another plate to spin on this balancing act
Of course if NK collapses and they have refugees. . .they will do the Unthinkable which China doesn't really want to do unless they want their trade cut off from the west, which would force the economic transition of money from west to east that is Happening now(thanks bush/cheney/powell, Paulson, lehman brothers, Goldman Sachs Fannie Fae Fredie mac, Clinton signing that back act way back when) to happen too quickly for them to handle.
Personally the U.S cant Reaally do anything because this is really Chinas Problem, the only thing the U.S. can do is back China up and do the Barking for China (which is what it is doing right now with the u.s.s. george washington off the coast) but if it comes to actual war. . . .
We cant fight three wars at once with trillions of Dollars in debt unless china wipes that debt clean, or lets the yuan float, which they cant as it would upset the little Stability China has at the moment as a higher yuan, means less people buying their exported cheap stuffs which means factories close and Chinese people lose jobs and revolting against the gov. . .
But really the U.S. cant fight three wars at the same time period.
really in this situation unless China does the unthinkable and is helped in covering that up by other nations. . .
in a war Situation or NK Collapse situation. . .China is Fucked.