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Soviet being a confederation, it’s member states are already sovereign. This is also why some suggestion of creating a Chinese confederation is a nonstarter.

A myopic analysis that's purely based on percentage without even considering the actual numbers, as a 5% growth for a $18 trillion economy is many times more than a 15% growth from a $3 trillion economy. You can't have linear growth percentage as the economy expands.

Not a good idea as you'll get stampeded.

There are always consequences. Not all are immediate, some will take decades or even centuries to play out like the case I've already stated. But don't worry, you will most likely witness the consequences of US unilateralism in your lifetime.

Looking at the advancement of technology, it will be challenging to find jobs for 600-700 million people.

China Must Show Intention to Keep Engaging US, Blinken Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-18/china-must-show-intention-to-keep-engaging-with-us-blinken-says#xj4y7vzkg 😂

Political and military are interlinked. And yes, US bombs countries on the other side of the globe, and the consequences are becoming more and more apparent.

The long term consequence is Taliban not only is back in power but also in areas it wasn't previously able to control. Through years of US occupation, Taliban's opposition basically gave up resisting as the alternative to US occupation appeared more attractive.

As low as 1.2bn people? 1.2bn is still too high, not low.

Fly 12,000 mile to f with other people's home is just a stupid waste of resource rather than a demonstration of power. In the 7th century, Chinese envoy by the name of Wang Xuance borrowed troops from Tibet & Nepal, and single handedly destroyed the Vardhana Dynasty without any directive and...

You can kill 30 million and still doesn’t do anything for the US to advance its interests. It’s more harmful than anything else. What you describe is a very immature mindset that doesn’t understand the long term consequences of one’s own actions. Iran says thank you. China too.

Didn't say all regime changes will be successful, but I don't think the Vietnamese government would like to put its survival skill to the test all over again.

Rather than creating shock and fear, its withdrew from Afghanistan has created nothing but contempt and mockery. US action in the middle east has very much weakened its own global position and strengthened that of its adversaries. If you think war are just anger management tools with no...

The Vietnamese government understood that getting too close to the US means regime change.

It's certainly restricting S.Korea and Taiwan chip makers as both sees their revenue sink.

The end to any war is to achieve political objectives, not to just kill people. In that the US failed on both accounts, handing Iraq to Iran and Afghanistan to a more entrenched Taliban. You can win a thousand battles while still lose the war.

That's the decision for the local government. For example, the Sri Lanka Hambantota port was proposed by Canada, not China, and Sri Lanka hired Danish company Ramboll for another feasible study of the port and further contracted Ramboll to design the port before it got the loan to actually...

The biggest difference is that Taiwan is an island 1/20th the size of Ukraine, making supplying the island in times of war virtually impossible as the entire island will become a war zone without a front and a rear. Any interference will directly involve the US military engaging the Chinese...

Figured that’s the whole point of trolling the thread, to make proper discussion of the topic impossible. Mods should really just remove all of these pointless bickering.

The goals are different as Putin was hoping for a quick war to do a regime change in Kiev as 150,000 troops was not nearly enough to actually occupy Ukraine. But yes, don't count on your enemies to surrender.