04-20-2018, 10:30 AM
Our standing as a super power has never really been tested outside of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and that could have gone terribly wrong had we not had a highly developed economy and the protection of two rather large bodies of water to isolate us from potential invasions. Most people don't really think of how thinly spread our military has become around the world now . Probably the only thing preventing an adversary from attacking us now is the idea of mutually assured destruction ,our nuclear capability and global trade . If we had to fight a purely conventional war without the use of nuclear weapons and high technology we'd be in big trouble . We simply don't currently have the manpower to defend ourselves in a purely conventional war so it is our nuclear power and economic power keeping us from such invasion.
Our world is far different from the world our grandparents and great grandparents grew up in .China has little interest in invading because we're huge customers of the goods they manufacture and sell to us . A global war, the kind like WWII would make no sense and the same reason we don't invade them. If either nation were to attempt to invade it would disrupt our economies so much that neither nation would have enough of a customer base left to sell anything to .
In these respects the world is a much safer place than just 70 years ago . Now we fight proxy wars in places that are too far from our shores to affect our daily lives and only a very small percentage of our population is even involved.
The biggest danger we face now are the fools who seem to want us to believe that we could successfully invade another large global power. We could unleash our weaponry on them and destroy cities ,but we don't have the physical manpower to take control and administer the aftermath and even if we did we would stand nothing to gain from it. The rest of the world is also aware of this and they also have the same problems of what to do with a nation after you completely destroy it .
I'm glad that we and others had the foresight to put in place the capacity to prevent future global wars from happening in the first place. I worry more about people who want to drag us back in time to colonialism and wars of conquest.
Our world is far different from the world our grandparents and great grandparents grew up in .China has little interest in invading because we're huge customers of the goods they manufacture and sell to us . A global war, the kind like WWII would make no sense and the same reason we don't invade them. If either nation were to attempt to invade it would disrupt our economies so much that neither nation would have enough of a customer base left to sell anything to .
In these respects the world is a much safer place than just 70 years ago . Now we fight proxy wars in places that are too far from our shores to affect our daily lives and only a very small percentage of our population is even involved.
The biggest danger we face now are the fools who seem to want us to believe that we could successfully invade another large global power. We could unleash our weaponry on them and destroy cities ,but we don't have the physical manpower to take control and administer the aftermath and even if we did we would stand nothing to gain from it. The rest of the world is also aware of this and they also have the same problems of what to do with a nation after you completely destroy it .
I'm glad that we and others had the foresight to put in place the capacity to prevent future global wars from happening in the first place. I worry more about people who want to drag us back in time to colonialism and wars of conquest.
