Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-44248215-20191113060242/@comment-27144409-20191116014642

73.Anon.52 wrote: Sentry 616 wrote: China hasn't been making messes by shooting up an entire region and being surprised that leaving before cleanup doesn't make for stable allies.

That doesn't mean that they're not militaristic. They've been building up their military for some time, and stealing the notes from whoever does the actual experiementing makes it much easier. US analysts were the ones who actually dubbed one of their new ballistic missiles the, "carrier killer," not its Chinese creators or owners. They've also been competing with the US in drones, lasers, and railguns.

I'd also consider them a superpower. One which has been up to some... concering activites. Also there's that whole problem with censorship, human rights violations, the patriarchal tendencies exacerbating the one child policy, and the dangerously thin skin of its leader. 1. The actions of a rogue administration aren't really indicative of US policy as a whole, The US responded to an external threat with overwhelming force, then responsibly questioned why it was there in the first place, and after electing someone inept as to how foreign policy works and enforcing his dangerous belief he can unilaterally change policy without consequences, he did something stupid.

2 & 3 were what my point was. 1: It's not exactly new. We've been bleeding out into the sand and supplying future enemies for decades. Before the deserts and mountains, it was the jungles. The current administration is just particularly incompetent, cavalier, inexperienced, unqualified, short-sighted, treacherous, unstable, deranged, gullible, and generally bad at everything. We've been messing up the middle east for a while, but he brings a scary new spin on it.

2 I was typing these before I saw your post.