It would never reach a point that F22s would be used. Any tactical supremacy would be immediately responded with strategic weapons. There is no point in analyzing if US conventional weapons are superior while nuclear warheads exist.
The army performance in a total war would be mutually assured destruction. Period. US armed forces are there to kill insurgencies as you correctly explained and to keep a balance of power, not to be used in any real war. Any real war won't end with the almost complete destruction of one side. It will end with the complete destruction of both sides.
Better energy efficiency is certainly desirable and worth the effort to achieve, to a point. It does not lift the need for nuclear power in the long term, though.
People are more closely represented by themselves, still in modern society there are many needs that can be only be met by the coordinated efforts of many many people, thus the existence of governments.
We have individual rights, municipal laws, state laws, federal laws and international law because of this. And up till federal level each level supersedes the other whenever there is a need for hierarchy to solve conflicts between them. At International level there us no constituted power to enforce the laws, though, and therefore they are superseded by any and all the "lesser" instances, which makes them mostly a joke. That is what happens when local becomes more important than global. Global disappears. At the limit all laws disappear and there is only individual choice, i. e., anarchism.
If US didn't exist after WWII the world would be indeed a worse place, because there would be only one superpower around, the Soviet Union. US existence guaranteed a balance of power which was generally good for all humankind, despite the negative effects provoked by its existence.
Unfortunately now, after the fall of USSR, there is only one superpower. The very situation US existence helped to prevent is now ironically cause by it.
Yes I am dead serious. Russia has a lot of problems and its government is very far from being decent and fair to its population, but regardless of all its past evil doings, currently its negative impact over the world is neglectable compared to US.
It is amazing that I have to speel to you that "US" means "United States". RBN is not a government entity, it does about as much harm as the Yakuza, the Mafia, and the Chinese triads, and a lot less harm than most US corporations.
The government controlling everything is totalitarianism, not communism. There is capitalist totalitarianism. There wasn't any communist implementation in the real world without it though.
Now about China, a lot of international companies have plants in China, have employees and pay salaries to these employees. China does not control all means of production and it is not a communist country anymore for a long shot.
Russia is not the only place where the communism didn't work. Everywhere it was implemented it eventually collapsed. Even in China. Today China is more a capitalist totalitarian regimen than a communist one.
I can't really tell if capitalism is a good choice for Russia, but I am quite sure communism is not a good choice for anyone.
Russians are not the bad guys anymore. Not because they are morally superior or anything of the sorts, but because they lack the power and influence to be the bad guys.
China, although in a better economical position, lacks the opportunity to be the bad guys because of decades of neglect in international relation and consequent lack of real political influence in anything but itself.
As of now only US has both the economical power and political influence to be a negative force in a global scale. I am quite aware that the American population is not to blame for its government actions, at least no more than the general population of the affected countries, and I do sympathize with your feelings of impotence (and I share them rest assured), but that does not invalidate the fact that US as an entity is the greatest negative force in our World.
What Assange did needed to be done and with or without them needs to continue. Transparency, even if a feeble one, it is our only hope to be able to change anything in this world.
Viktor Yushchenko is still very much alive, which he wouldn't be if the Russian secret service really wanted him dead and were the ones who tried to kill him.
Current Russia is an angel compared to US. Apparently save for killing its own former spies it hasn't done anything bad against people on other countries, unlike US. Also unlike US, it is not manipulating politically and economically several of these countries in detriment of their populations well being.
Chairman Mao (and Stalin) wasn't alive and in power last time I checked. But CIA is still there up and running.
As I said Russia are not the bad guys anymore, and guess what neither is China.
Currently all the worst communist regimens still in place in the world, terrible as may be locally, even combined do insignificant damage to the World compared to US.
Fischer was really good, and for a time he was indeed the best, but many better players came after him.
Regarding chess players and governments it is not unusual for really smart people who become celebrities to go into politics. Everybody has his political views and intelligent people are usually very able to defend them. Einstein did a lot of politics, so did Oppenheimer (at great cost to himself) and many others.
American culture has become just like this. The government does whatever it wants and people accept and believe in what is said in the TV networks, which are controlled by a handful of people all in the bed with the government.
It is obvious that Assange is not a messiah. You can't really expect for someone to solve or even fight against all that is wrong in the World. One must prioritize what he thinks is more important.
Russia is not the evil superpower it once was. It is just a country struggling with lots of problems and trying to get back on its feet. US on the other hand continue being the evil superpower it always were.
Russia is not forcing extraditions of anyone in other countries for talking bad about them or for committing the heinous crime of file sharing. Russia is not manipulating countries in the Middle East, South and Central America and causing more civilians deaths and misery in the long term than any war has ever done. Russia is not enforcing an inhuman embargo to a small island in central America. Embargo that has made the lives of many many people miserable.
Accept reality. Russians are not the bad guys anymore. You are.
And the constitution can and have been modified accordingly to the majority's will. "Tyranny of the majority" is a nonsense term invented to justify imposing the will of a given minority (usually a ruling minority) over the majority. Tyranny of the majority IS democracy. Period.
If you only buy the assets yes. It is like buying a building from another company. You don't assume their employee medical bills by doing so and it is perfectly logical. But when you buy the company, which they did in this case, you do.
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It would never reach a point that F22s would be used. Any tactical supremacy would be immediately responded with strategic weapons. There is no point in analyzing if US conventional weapons are superior while nuclear warheads exist.
The army performance in a total war would be mutually assured destruction. Period. US armed forces are there to kill insurgencies as you correctly explained and to keep a balance of power, not to be used in any real war. Any real war won't end with the almost complete destruction of one side. It will end with the complete destruction of both sides.
Better energy efficiency is certainly desirable and worth the effort to achieve, to a point. It does not lift the need for nuclear power in the long term, though.
Nuclear power is not only necessary, it is unavoidable, although it may be possible to avoid it in some places, for some time.
People are more closely represented by themselves, still in modern society there are many needs that can be only be met by the coordinated efforts of many many people, thus the existence of governments.
We have individual rights, municipal laws, state laws, federal laws and international law because of this. And up till federal level each level supersedes the other whenever there is a need for hierarchy to solve conflicts between them. At International level there us no constituted power to enforce the laws, though, and therefore they are superseded by any and all the "lesser" instances, which makes them mostly a joke. That is what happens when local becomes more important than global. Global disappears. At the limit all laws disappear and there is only individual choice, i. e., anarchism.
If US didn't exist after WWII the world would be indeed a worse place, because there would be only one superpower around, the Soviet Union. US existence guaranteed a balance of power which was generally good for all humankind, despite the negative effects provoked by its existence.
Unfortunately now, after the fall of USSR, there is only one superpower. The very situation US existence helped to prevent is now ironically cause by it.
Because UK has no legal basis to extradite him at the moment, accordingly to its treaties. Sweden on the other hand has.
Espionage laws, if the government can make it stick, and I bet they can. Nowadays they can do pretty much whatever they want.
To their ex-spies. A thing CIA would never do, right?
Yes I am dead serious. Russia has a lot of problems and its government is very far from being decent and fair to its population, but regardless of all its past evil doings, currently its negative impact over the world is neglectable compared to US.
China lacks the political influence to be a negative force in a global scale anywhere near US today. It may change someday, but not in a near future.
It is amazing that I have to speel to you that "US" means "United States". RBN is not a government entity, it does about as much harm as the Yakuza, the Mafia, and the Chinese triads, and a lot less harm than most US corporations.
The government controlling everything is totalitarianism, not communism. There is capitalist totalitarianism. There wasn't any communist implementation in the real world without it though.
Now about China, a lot of international companies have plants in China, have employees and pay salaries to these employees. China does not control all means of production and it is not a communist country anymore for a long shot.
They certainly think so...
Russia is not the only place where the communism didn't work. Everywhere it was implemented it eventually collapsed. Even in China. Today China is more a capitalist totalitarian regimen than a communist one.
I can't really tell if capitalism is a good choice for Russia, but I am quite sure communism is not a good choice for anyone.
Russians are not the bad guys anymore. Not because they are morally superior or anything of the sorts, but because they lack the power and influence to be the bad guys.
China, although in a better economical position, lacks the opportunity to be the bad guys because of decades of neglect in international relation and consequent lack of real political influence in anything but itself.
As of now only US has both the economical power and political influence to be a negative force in a global scale. I am quite aware that the American population is not to blame for its government actions, at least no more than the general population of the affected countries, and I do sympathize with your feelings of impotence (and I share them rest assured), but that does not invalidate the fact that US as an entity is the greatest negative force in our World.
What Assange did needed to be done and with or without them needs to continue. Transparency, even if a feeble one, it is our only hope to be able to change anything in this world.
Viktor Yushchenko is still very much alive, which he wouldn't be if the Russian secret service really wanted him dead and were the ones who tried to kill him.
Current Russia is an angel compared to US. Apparently save for killing its own former spies it hasn't done anything bad against people on other countries, unlike US. Also unlike US, it is not manipulating politically and economically several of these countries in detriment of their populations well being.
Chairman Mao (and Stalin) wasn't alive and in power last time I checked. But CIA is still there up and running.
As I said Russia are not the bad guys anymore, and guess what neither is China.
Currently all the worst communist regimens still in place in the world, terrible as may be locally, even combined do insignificant damage to the World compared to US.
Because CIA has never killed anyone, right? Seriously, the best you can argue here is the assassination of a former KGB spy?
Fischer was really good, and for a time he was indeed the best, but many better players came after him.
Regarding chess players and governments it is not unusual for really smart people who become celebrities to go into politics. Everybody has his political views and intelligent people are usually very able to defend them. Einstein did a lot of politics, so did Oppenheimer (at great cost to himself) and many others.
American culture has become just like this. The government does whatever it wants and people accept and believe in what is said in the TV networks, which are controlled by a handful of people all in the bed with the government.
Important as his political position may be his chess level is extremely relevant. He was probably the best player this world has ever had.
It is obvious that Assange is not a messiah. You can't really expect for someone to solve or even fight against all that is wrong in the World. One must prioritize what he thinks is more important.
Russia is not the evil superpower it once was. It is just a country struggling with lots of problems and trying to get back on its feet. US on the other hand continue being the evil superpower it always were.
Russia is not forcing extraditions of anyone in other countries for talking bad about them or for committing the heinous crime of file sharing. Russia is not manipulating countries in the Middle East, South and Central America and causing more civilians deaths and misery in the long term than any war has ever done. Russia is not enforcing an inhuman embargo to a small island in central America. Embargo that has made the lives of many many people miserable.
Accept reality. Russians are not the bad guys anymore. You are.
And the constitution can and have been modified accordingly to the majority's will. "Tyranny of the majority" is a nonsense term invented to justify imposing the will of a given minority (usually a ruling minority) over the majority. Tyranny of the majority IS democracy. Period.
If you only buy the assets yes. It is like buying a building from another company. You don't assume their employee medical bills by doing so and it is perfectly logical. But when you buy the company, which they did in this case, you do.