5. US military is widely celebrated as a bunch of extraordinary cowards who go to war only after being convinced that they will kill their enemies without endangering themselves. Said bunch of cowards always acts surprised and terrified when their invincible warriors end up dead or captured, and proclaims that it only happens because their enemies are immoral war criminals.
The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
- Sun Tzu
I don't think this quote is the right one for american "war strategist".
I don't seem to remeber where this victory was won since 2nd world war.
Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan maybe?
You are assuming that the world will forever stay as peaceful as it is today, which is a horrendous bet.
Well there were several crises with Nato member states during history and Nato did not intervene and it should have. So don't talk about world peace and everything else and how Nato is preserving it. Nato will help no member state, it is an outlived organization in the hand of few (probably one) states, serving their interest and nothing else.
In the last 20 years Nato didn't do anything relevant to preserve world peace...so as I said it should be abolished.
But Nato is indirectly supporting USA in it's aims towards Russia, that are, well making a lot of dispute and tensions not just between these to countries but between Russia and european countries as well. If this is your idea of Nato and preserving peace...well then I am not surprised...
So that France doesn't decide to nuke Spain / Italy / Algeria when a border dispute gets a little too hot for comfort...
What kind of border dispute? Where do you live? France is a member of EU (as Italy and Spain) and will probably soon become a member of NATO. And I live near these countries and there was no border dispute probably since ww2.
Why the fuck do we need NATO for? Have you people forgot why NATO was created anyway? When the cold war ended so should NATO.
And if South Ossetia wants to be independent or if it want to join Russia it should...why? Because it has "the right" like Kosovo had. USA supported Kosovo indepedency...why don't they support South Ossetians now? Double standards?
What happens is this: USA continues shuttle, kicks the Russians out, probably keeps the Russian modules, and the NATO countries have a nice little space station.
Yeah right, with the money that USA gives for space program...They rather spend their money for their army and their "fight for democracy"...so who is the bully now?
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5. US military is widely celebrated as a bunch of extraordinary cowards who go to war only after being convinced that they will kill their enemies without endangering themselves. Said bunch of cowards always acts surprised and terrified when their invincible warriors end up dead or captured, and proclaims that it only happens because their enemies are immoral war criminals.
The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. - Sun Tzu
I don't think this quote is the right one for american "war strategist". I don't seem to remeber where this victory was won since 2nd world war. Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan maybe?
Any kind.
It's called a hypothetical.
You are assuming that the world will forever stay as peaceful as it is today, which is a horrendous bet.
Well there were several crises with Nato member states during history and Nato did not intervene and it should have. So don't talk about world peace and everything else and how Nato is preserving it. Nato will help no member state, it is an outlived organization in the hand of few (probably one) states, serving their interest and nothing else. In the last 20 years Nato didn't do anything relevant to preserve world peace...so as I said it should be abolished. But Nato is indirectly supporting USA in it's aims towards Russia, that are, well making a lot of dispute and tensions not just between these to countries but between Russia and european countries as well. If this is your idea of Nato and preserving peace...well then I am not surprised...
So that France doesn't decide to nuke Spain / Italy / Algeria when a border dispute gets a little too hot for comfort...
What kind of border dispute? Where do you live? France is a member of EU (as Italy and Spain) and will probably soon become a member of NATO. And I live near these countries and there was no border dispute probably since ww2.
What happens is this: USA continues shuttle, kicks the Russians out, probably keeps the Russian modules, and the NATO countries have a nice little space station.
Yeah right, with the money that USA gives for space program...They rather spend their money for their army and their "fight for democracy"...so who is the bully now?