Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. The US would not be tracking individual lanches what they would be doing is watching for atmosphere effects such as thermal signals. The idea that Russia can launch low travelling nuclear missiles that can travel across the ocean at hundreds of feet of atmosphere is nothings short of ridiculous. They have to use high altitude launches that descend and those would stand out like a sore thumb. Russia's real threat is that they can launch from submarines but that is a complex procedure on its own. Britain has a much better aerospace industry and even they struggle with submarine launches.
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  2.  @HedgehogZone  Poland has its reserves full up, has built in LNG infrastructure at great cost and also has a new gas pipeline from Norway and is also developing new trade with other countries. While Poland is still exposed to potential risk from Russian Energy it is nowhere near as exposed as Germany and several other European countries.
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  3. America is unique as It has the world's largest single consumer market, deep resources, market economy and competition between the states.
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  4.  @fallencielo2701  There is no body in the US congress that wants to invade Mexico. That is just nonsense. There are members who want the cartels dealt with but that is in context with working with Mexico. Taking snippets of statements made in the heat of the moment is not the same as policy.
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  5. @MASARU Hamamoto Afghanistan was not a war for the US it was a minor battle that was won by its special forces. Are you implying leaving the country was losing a war?
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  6. That may have worked 50 years ago where precision and detection was nowhere near what it is today. Having missiles today that require high altitude launch and descend would stand out like a sore thumb. Such systems can easily be tracked by laser with other exotic methods and the Russians have to know this as well.
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  7. The US has thousands of trillions of assets and about $200 trillion of liabilities. What most do not understand is that the QE does not change any of that. If there was no US there would be no world reserve currency and their would be economic chaos. Post WW2 the stepped up and used it wealth to act as a security for a world currency. Most people seem to think that the US were lucky in somehow getting this "priviledge" but the reality is being a world reserve currency actually takes away from US growth.
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  8. It really only needs India, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea working together. When they are combined they have far more power than China has. You could not name one product that is native to China that is used outside of China.
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  9. The US is not that exposed to China. The US has more trade with Mexico than it does with China. When Mexico and Canada are combined as a trade enity trade is twice that of China. I think people are confusing the mass production of cheap plastic junk from China with all economic activity.
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  10. People said the exact same thing before WW1 that there was too much trade between the nations. People are starting to realize that trade does not guarantee peace. Every single period of major war right back to the Punic wars had periods of strong trade before them and it did nothing to stop the wars.
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  11. The US is a designed political system that makes it very difficult for politicians to mess up. They may talk about it but never are they allowed to achieve it.
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  12. Mexico GDP has grown by 50% in the last few decades and that is only starting to accelerate. Blaming the US for mexico problem is typical nonsense.
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  13. Oil heating requires electricity to operate the pumps and ignition system. Do you have a stove that can build solid fuels.
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  14. Winds is not viable for continental Europe and neither is solar. Some places like Norway have unique geography that allows hydro build outs and Denmark for wind but that is not going to power the whole of Europe. The reality is that natural gas and oil are the only viable energy systems at present.
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  15. It would be good against smaller military forces due to the large scale but when it comes a well trained military based on western culture it would get destroyed even if that military is several times smaller. Japan for example would wipe the floor with them on every level.
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  16.  @jont2576  The vast majority of Chinese still live in rural poverty.
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  17.  @alexejII  South Korea has no choice in the manner. It would be conquered by China in seconds if it was seen to be weak. Russia is not China and should not be confused with China. India is currently right now at loggers with China because of the communist expansion that is taking place. You can try and pretend this is not happening but it is.
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  18. US weapons design and manufacture is based on the culture of the country which is about high levels of quality at vast scales. The US has been producing about 7 million cars per year for the last 60 years. And produces many thousands of high tech machines, aircraft, satellites and home entertainment. That all comes from culture.
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  19. Military culture cannot just be introduced on a whim and has to take generations to develop.
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  20.  @networkgeekstuff9090  Hydrogen has complex storage issues.
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  21. If they can find an industrial use for the waste material that would be revolutionary. I suspect with new developments in space technology they may be able to transports several tons of it into space and sent it towards saturn.
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  22. The way forward for Australia is to embrace a market economy like the US. Australia has everything it needs to function on its own. Modern coal plants could supply electricity to the cities and also be used as the backbone of the industrial system. Natural gas and oil could then fill in the gap. Australia does have a demographic issue coming down the line in that it current has a large population bulge in the 20 to 40 year old age demographic but has a smaller under 20 demographic and will need immigration to plug that gap but with immigration being a tough hurdle both political and immigrant quality challenged there will be bumps in the road.
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  23. Nuclear weapons and oil.
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  24.  @michaelginsberg9101  Austria did not want anything. They just capitulated when Germany started to become an aggressor. France did the exact same thing.
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  25. New Zealand is a welfare state and the political culture of New Zealand is formed around that ideology. That is the limiting factor of New Zealand. New Zealand should have a native clothing manufacturing industry that should be world famous but alas it does not have that.
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  26. Here is another question if China does invade Taiwan and is successful do you think they will stop at that?
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  27. Coronavirus cannot be managed. Comparing figures from one place to another means absolutely nothing whatsoever.
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  28. @Shane Septon That is pure nonsense. You stated that "Americans largely lack unless they are more well-to-do" That is pure horse dirt at best. Median income in the US is $60,000 with one in three incomes being in excess of $100,000, 90% of the US population has insurance coverage, median retirement income is $70,000 with the median retirement fund being $1.5 million. Everything you have stated is nonsense.
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  29. You cannot force Europe to be like the US with a single market. It is a dream or fantasy that cannot be achieved.
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  30.  @inomo  People keep bringing up ASML but they do not understand that it is based on US industry not European industry. The US government gave them permission to buy smaller US companies and US patents. There cutting edge laser technology for example is completely US based.
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  31.  @this_is_japes7409  ASML are a holding company and are made up of smaller America companies who the US government gave permission to be sold to ASML because the US has the idea that by allowing trade and prosperity to expand world wide that it would create a more stable world. Hence why the US helped China to set up an expand.
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  32.  @cedricdellafaille1361  Ireland is nothing like Panama so people need to stop with the stupid comparisons. Ireland is a European state with lower taxes and lower regulations when it comes to corporations. So while it is true that apple has a tax base in Ireland it also employs about 10000 people in Ireland.
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  33.  @edwardkim8972  Koreans, French, US, British and German are all working to build that capabilities. Koreans are starting to develop their own weapons industry towards that of international trade. Europe as a whole is about to go through a rearming period.
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  34. Europe has its own reserves but is too lazy to tap into it. Clean coal plants are also a option for europe.
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  35. You are assuming that Russia is thinking about this economically and rationally.
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  36. Africa is not a consumer market and will never replace the western consumer market.
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  37.  @hurrdurrmurrgurr  That is nonsense.
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  38. Median US income is $70000 per year which is liable for about 12% tax and in Europe that income would be taxed at near 50%. It is impossible in Europe to set up a small business and grow it.
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  39. Nope you are just making stupid excuses. Volkswagen has 600,000 employees and a revenue of €250 billion. This is typically the mind of those that exist in the EU looking for excuses as to why the American market is more successful than those of European countries. In WW1 America had a market that was 10 times larger than that of the UK.
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  40. There is also the fact that Europe still needs to keep its own defence industries active. The requirements of European defence will mean that they will need Korean weapons as well as European weapons. Sometimes it is more expensive to develop weapons at home but some times that expense is worth it.
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  41.  @archimedes2261  The US was like that 100 years ago are you thinking it is something new? Go and watch the movie Gangs of New York if you want to see internal messy politics and melting pot. The 40 million Mexicans who call them self Latino in America see them self as Americans. Most black people in America see them self as American very few would be interested in Africa, Europe or Asia. The US has seen all of this before.
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  42. No the wealth is not based on house valuations it is based on median income levels. Everywhere is facing inflation because of the supply chain disruptions that occurred and the over reliance on Chinese manufacturing of junk. Australia has everything it needs from Coal, Iron ore, Copper, alumina and large vast landscape to develop its industrial base. With modern industrial systems Australia could be an industrial powerhouse on a par with the likes of Germany only it would have all its own raw ingredients to tap into.
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  43. Australia is an island with everything that it needs to function on its own. It just needs to get its head out from underneath it self. What Australia needs to embrace a market economy approach. To copy what the US has done in its history. The biggest problem I see is that Australia has the labor party that is heavily integrated with the media and that will hold Australia back.
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  44. Most Americans do not look down on other countries. Very few westerners would actually know anything about Singapore other than it is Asia. Most Europeans do not even know anything about Switzerland or Luxembourg other than they are in Europe.
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  45. When you view things rationally yes that would be the conclusion but is there rational thinking behind any of this or is it about something else.
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  46. That is the thing about war it bring a nation together like nothing else.
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  47.  @Suksass  The oil does when it is combined with Nuclear weapons. Without the oil their now why they would exist as a country.
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  48. Nuclear weapons are mechanical systems that require maintenance. And the skills required to achieve that cannot just be done at will. Such a culture of science and technology has to be developed over decades. And then there was always the question how well did they work in the first place. It is one thing to set off a nuclear reaction and another to have an operational warhead.
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  49. The probably have systems that work but not enough for full nuclear exchange. Nuclear weapons have been way overhyped.
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  50. China would have a big challenge in trying to carryout a naval invasion. Taiwan has a large defensive airforce and a large ground troop that would make invasion extremely difficult for China.
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  51. America did not lose to the Vietcong. I think you are mistaken.
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  52.  @adastra8218  Not necessarily. China does not have a long term sustaining economy. It cannot be a factory for the west because that is not going to grow its economy.
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  53.  @redline589  China does not have enough nuclear weapons to wage war.
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  54. Taiwan air force and air defence system will make mince meat of any invading force.
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  55.  @overlord4404  They have risk exposure but not at the same level as other European countries. Any infrastructure in Europe can be hit and that includes Russian infrastructure.
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  56. There is already large amounts of manufacturing in Mexico that is based on NAFTA and that is only going to keep growing.
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  57.  @michaelwittkopp3379  Germany is gas and oil reliant on Russia. The US is pretty much energy independent and has everything it needs to maintain its trade and population levels. China does not project international power and its only leverage is that the west does not want a war to start so hey will tolerate certain activities to avoid that conflict. Russia on the other hand has oil and gas with a military that has nuclear weapons hence why it can get away with far more than what China can. The vast majority of US trade is internal and even gave up its markets freely to certain nations to buy it favors. The US treats trade as a means of stability on the global stage.
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  58. @Zgnid Olias China's national rhetoric is not their problem. They grew their market economy and now have decided they want to go back to communism. And then there is the problem that China has never answered for murdering over 100 milllion people like the Nazi's have.
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  59. Nationalism is not the problem in China. Being ruled by a murderous communist government is their biggest problem.
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  60. Again that is just nonsense and not the reason why the American market is bigger and better than any european country.
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  61. Pure fantasy.
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  62.  @NMY232  They maybe low tax by European standards not by US standards though. The median income in the US is $70000 with a tax liability of about 12% and in any european country that income would be taxed at almost 50%. A small business being run in America has far lower tax burden than in Europe. So while people may look at say Switzerland or Luxembourg they are not comparable to any state in the US when it comes to taxes.
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  63. Without American dominance the world would be in chaos. You may not like the idea but the reality is very different.
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  64. American investment most certainly help Korea get of the ground as did American support. Korea is responsible for its own success.
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  65. @Anton S The US has roughly about 50% of it cold war nuclear weapons active Russia has about 5% of its nuclear weapons active. China simply does not have enough nuclear weapons for full exchange with the US if it even tried to do it the world would have a very large supply of glass from China.
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  66.  @richardmakaya5261  For the US to wipe out the Taliban it would need to kill a lot of people and that would mean civilian lives. The US and its public are not willing to do that. Remember the US in all its wars since WW2 has been fighting with gloves on due to the fact it has been acting like world police force. If they take the gloves off it will be a different matter.
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  67.  @UniverseExp91  The US military in equivalent dollars has spent about 20 trillion over the last 2 decades and without Afghanistan they would still have spent the 20 trillion. The 2.5 trillion figure you are talking about covers both Afghanistan and Iraq. Pulling out of a place 20 years after a minor US battle means nothing in terms of win or defeat. If the US went back tomorrow they would control Afghanistan in about 3 weeks and that would be fighting with the gloves on and one hand behind the back.
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  68. Then Australia will need to develop a more market economy like the US. That means using those natural resources to build business and trade internal within Australia. I a not sure Australia people want to do that though.
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  69. If you do move to Australia or consider it make sure your professional skills are in demand and able to be used by Australia.
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  70. The backbone of Australian industrial energy should be coal. Modern coal processing for energy is much cleaner than the historical plants. Most of the by products like carbon in soot form and CO2 form can be used industrially. Sulphur and mercury also have industrial usage. Every waste material should be sucked up and used at an industrial level. There is no point Australia sending its raw materials abroad for value to be added elsewhere. Australian high quality steel and its products should be world famous and a mark of Australia instead Iron ore is sent to China to produce the worlds diresty industry and worst steel quality of the modern world. Australian agri should also be world famous.
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  71.  @danielch6662  The US did not have a 1 child policy so it has a healthy demographic and has 100 million available men in military service age range for a large war. The reason why it appears like the US has a deficit is due to the fact the US correctly calculates its finances and does not hide its debt into its tax and welfare system like other countries do. The US has thousands of trillions of assets that it can develop and use at any time and a transport system that enables it to freely produce food. It is the reason why the US is agri independent and energy independent country.
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  72.  @joshwright3683  Australia has massive coal reserves that could easily build a clean energy system that would be the backbone of its industrial base. Australia has everything it needs to build a modern wonder industrial economy. There might be a glut of German engineers over the next few years that could easily be enticed to moved to Australia.
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  73.  @dan7564  An Australian missile defence system with the abilities to identify targets through the use of Australia navy and airforce would be part of ensuring that no gap exists. That could counter any Chinese attempt to form a blockade patrol.
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  74. That would not stop China from trying though. The only thing about this is that it may not play out over the next 5 years but next 20 years but then again Xi is near to 70 years old and may out of some desperation try something.
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  75.  @Alex-Rainmaker  Biden and Trump are the presidents it is not them to decides if the US goes to war it is the Congress. The president can do limited things like send aid or direct the military for security reasons.
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  76. It is not difficult to survive that is an overstatement. What hight taxes does is not allow the internal economy to grow. Until Ireland decides to get rid of its welfare state mentality it will go nowhere.
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  77. Climate hysteria is creating a series of national and international policies that are not going to solve climate change. What they are going to do is use up existing capital for projects that do not work. The only solution to climate change is for a series of investments into new material science projects that can be applied to energy generation and energy storage. A well as recycling of materials such as plastics. The US for example recycles 95% of its steel and that needs to be the case for plastics. Ireland needs to develop a two market approach with it high tech value added export market that is cutting edge products such as pharma, medical devices, electronics and food production. Its internal market place is different and is more about supplying products for the internal markets and services. At present Ireland imports too much of its products and needs to reduce that figure about about 50%. More specialized products such as iphones do not need to be part of that internal production. Ireland needs to also form partnerships with British, French and german industries to help build its own internal market production. Deregulating the internal market is the only play that Ireland needs to make alongside tax cuts for income tax and small businesses taxes. Ireland is nowhere near its full potential when it comes to using its natural resources.
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  78.  @MrHotass81  The welfare state is a mentality that has been ingrained in Irish people since the foundation of the Irish state. It is not new and predates the current politicians who are in power. The Irish people want that welfare state culture and there is no getting around that fact.
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  79. Irish politicians are not pocketing the money. What is happening is that the Irish welfare state mentality has not allowed Ireland to live to its full potential.
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  80.  @dennisbrown5313  Taking all of that aside and just focusing on Russian engineering for a moment. I am saying that Russia simply would not have an easy time of just launching on their own never mind the capabilities of US defence systems. There is the factor that Russia warheads are based on mechanical systems that are 50 years old and it is unlikely based on the evidence of their performance in Ukraine that they would have an enough missiles for full nuclear exchange. There is a high probability that US sensor networks are capable of tracking the majority of Russian assets. I also suspect Russia knows all of this as well.
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  81.  @Морозов-ь7с  Launching for a video is not the same as deploying in a critical attack and doing it successfully. Sub launches are some of the most complex there are from a technical point of view.
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  82.  @JamesKerLindsay  Tighten what screw on Taiwan. China does not have any tools.
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  83.  @adamseward4713  You knew one guy out of 20 million. My god your sample size is really representative of the country.
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  84. Older US weapons are still years ahead of Chinese weapons.
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  85.  @neohubris  Losing does not stop tyrants from trying.
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  86. Drones are useless in war. They cannot take out military armaments. Too many kids playing video games.
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  87. That is fantasy. Taiwan as a chip manufacturing centre only functions because it is based on US industry. All those chips are licensed by US industry. Even ASML which is a dutch company functions via US industry. The only way China sort this out is to go out of its way to repair its US relationship. Is China ready for that?
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  88. That is fantasy. The Cartel does not influence the industrial centers in Mexico. It has no control of places like Mexico CIty.
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  89.  @billc6762  Right now there is a series of restrictions being placed on microchips going to China an that will probably end up doing that.
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  90. The has already shored more of its manufacturing in Mexico that that of China and that number is only going to keep growing. The main difference between the two places is that in Mexican culture the government does not see it self as the owner of production.
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  91.  @williamlloyd3769  I also think that Mexico will be more creative from a business point of view than China has been. I suspect you will start to see lots of Mexican branded products as well in the US. China is just an assembly manufacturing region. China cannot do any of the high tech production. People have been pointing out how China has made a big deal out of the fact that it just in the last decade figured out how to manufacture their own ball point pens.
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  92.  @mrsalwaysright6478  No body cares what you want.
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  93. China is still a rural country. The vast majority of the country live in rural settings earning less than $1000 per year.
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  94. China is a factory economy with little room for growth.
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  95. Detroit was a democratic run city.
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  96. You are talking nonsense at best and just spouting media political activism. Liz \Truss wants to implement a free market approach to grow the UK rather than using a failed European market approach. There is a reason why Germany is about to collapse and why Italy, Spain and Greece are failures.
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  97. That is just pure fantasy.
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  98. People use US dollar because it is the most stable currency in the world.
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  99.  @Fantastika  Median income in the Germany is $32000 per year and in the US it is $70000 show how is EU having a better quality of life? I do hope the heating works this winter in Europe.
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  100. It is part of the same economic culture that is how.
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  101. US has a median income that is twice that of any European country. Europe has a quality of life myth that keeps getting repeated over and over while they all live in their small freezing apartments pretending that Russia does not exist and that the evil capitalists in America are to blame.
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  102. Europe has no market for semiconductors hence why it does not have anything like AMD, Fairchild or Intel. .
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  103. ASML is really based on US industry not Netherlands or European industry.
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  104.  @_Kiren_  You are making up excuses as to why Europe is a failing market place.
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  105. Median income in the US is $70000 per year and no European country can offer that. US has a 95% private healthcare coverage and in Europe poor workers would need permission from the government for healthcare. They all have to line up for permission.
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  106. US military keeps Europe alive so clearly Europe just sits back and lets the US defend it.
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  107. Who would attack them is the thing? Nord Stream was an easy target the Norwegian lines are not as easy to hit and would have ramifications beyond hitting them.
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  108. Several countries in Europe have gas fields that they could develop the problem is they are simply not interested. They would rather fly flags showing how virtuous they are.
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  109. The US could probably build nuclear plants in 18 months if it wanted to but does not have the same energy pressures that Japan has and can use a more mixed system.
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  110. I do not think he was talking about nuclear fusion but the actual mechanisms fusing and causing an out of control thermal situation. Modern small nuclear reactor systems have mechanisms that eliminate the fusing of cores by employing aggressive mechanical systems that can force separation.
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  111. Large scale super reactors are the types that give real problems and when they start to develop an issue it can be very difficult to solve. A small reactor having a malfunction is nowhere near as catastrophic and can be more easily solved as a problem. Many of their designs make it very difficult to have issues.
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  112. Oil and gas are not going anywhere. Only Japan has the ability to achieve this and they have pressure because they do not have easy access to natural gas or oil. It is like Norway have lots of hydropower stations and claiming to be green and people calling to be more like Norway only to realize that Norway has lots of natural lakes at higher altitude that makes it easy to build those power stations. Not everybody can do as Japan are attempting.
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  113. Unless it is a video that addresses the real history and covers how certain parts of the Arab world do not actually want Palestine to become a state but want to use it to bring down Israel.
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  114. The US has always used trade to build their relationships with allies. It is the main reason why the US market is open to those allies. Hence why Kia and Hyundai are selling in the US as are Japanese cars.
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  115.  @godimedia1239  Imposing LGBT culture will fail.
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  116. What australia current has as a natural reserve (known and accessible) is more than enough for Australia to triple its population, build an industrial base and a consumer market. Australia has several problems to over come namely the negative world view of the labor party that is focused on controlling the market and growing its welfare state.
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  117. All Australia would have to do is park some of its naval assets in between China and its oil supplies to cause a complete collapse of China. With the US help of the UK or France such an intervention would be easy to achieve Australia on its own would be more challenging but doable.
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  118. No way is based on todays China not what China could become in the future. China is at stage one of five when it comes to their development. China current military force is all about maintaining their control within China. As a tyrannical state China has more or less maxed out its internal abilities and may need to start looking further afield. What china does have is a massive glut of steel production and that is something they could use to focus on their military. The issues that could knock China of its path ware demographics, energy, food production and a lack of innovation. Again that does not mean they cannot go crazy and cause a lot of problems.
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  119. No that is not the case. Australian median income levels are above European levels. And the large volumes of space that Australia has makes it easy to expand.
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  120.  @nanaholic01  Those mafia tactics would have been tolerated several years ago but not today. Any such fishing boat that would try to interfered with australia would get boarded or would be rammed out of existence. The very moment a Chinese vessel tries to interfere with trade routes to Australia will be facing down consequences. What are they going to do send out the Chinese navy?
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  121.  @nanaholic01  A large volume of fishing ships would get cut to shreds in a war. The Australian Navy would have a field day. That is pure fantasy if you think fishing boats could form a national blockade.
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  122. China would attempt it with the use of a missile defense system in the region and small patrol boats that would be used to identify any would be blockade breakers. Australia can counter this by building their own missile defence system that could create a bubble around Australia and its naval assets could then be used with the airforce to identify targets such as blockade ships or missile batteries.
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  123. Tyrannical powers are not logical. They do not think of common sense things and they are blind to reason.
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  124. Culture plays a role s well. If Malaysia were to keep developing it will have that culture as well.
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  125. Australia could easily support 300 million people. The challenges Australia has its insistence of copying British political culture. The labor party is also something that will hold Australia behind as well. They have deep penetration into Australian media and have done a really good job of confusing the public to what Australians best interests are.
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  126. That is not what Australia needs though. Water is a more efficient system of transport but what Australia needs is to build its own market economy with its own consumer base. That means copying the US model. I just not sure Australians are wanting to do that though.
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  127. The West had the same leverage over Nazi Germany and that did not stop them from their rampage. The US had the upper hand in the pacific but it did not stop the Japanese empire.
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  128.  @chasindigo  Electric transport is nonsense.
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  129. Australia having china as its biggest partner will be supply China with the materials and tools to some day come and invade. It is that simple. Be under no other impression as to what is going to happen in the future.
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  130. That is a good move but it needs to really look at its self as an economy. If Australia was to copy the US market economy culture it would become a powerhouse as it has everything it needs. Australia has every material it needs to be like the US which is independent. And products that are specialized such as microchips could be imported from the US.
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  131.  @MissFoxification  Australia does not need to be working with China. Giving China resources that it can later down the line attack Australia with is as bad as what Germany did with Russia gas only in reverse.
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  132. Interest rates is the only tool that a government has to quell inflation.
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  133. America is the best country in the world to live in. It has everything in place and needs no outside help for it to thrive. Australia does not have a good industrial base but it most certainly has all the natural ingredient to build out from such as Iron ore, Copper, alumina and coal. The backbone of the Australian industrial energy system could be its massive high quality coal reserves. All Australia needs to do is get its head out from underneath its body.
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  134. Australia is nothing like Canada. The limitations that Canada has does not apply to Australia. Australia is flat and hot but that is not a limiting factor for building transport. Lots of snow is. Now if Canada got its head out of underneath its self it would grow and become powerful but that will not happen by the looks of it hence why it is subservient to the US.
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  135.  @Yamumslover  Australia needs more than just skilled people as there is a bottleneck in Australian demographics that will come into play.
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  136. There is a lot of Australian owned mining companies.
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  137. Australia has massive natural reserves of Iron, Copper, Coal and alumina. Everything that Australia needs is there to do some very spectacular things. There is no reason why Australia cannot rival Japan, Germany, UK and Singapore when it comes to industrial outputs. Australia has always had wild fires and flooding and is just the price that has to be paid for living there and it has impact on Australia becoming an industrial power house.
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  138. China would have to throw massive levels of its assets into that region. It would leave China prone to a blockade from their main oil supply lines.
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  139. There is other factors as well such as Australia could easily blockade Chinese oil important.
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  140. The problem is that Australia is copying the UK more and more every day. Instead it should be embracing the US market economy model.
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  141. Australia cannot control that and needs to control its own assets and landmass. History has taught that relying on other nations a buffer is not a good thing to do.
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  142.  @geordonworley5618  It was impossible for Trump to go 100% when America is now a country that the media runs.
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  143. Marines are not a division of the Navy.
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  144. China destroyed the treaty the moment it started to shoot down satellites 15 years ago.
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  145. That would require a massive invading force to over come the defences.
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  146.  @leonarddi85  Climate change is a theoretical future event seen in computational models it is not happening right now.
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  147.  @reiniernn9071  An oil heating system tends to use electricity especially if it is a central heating system. The original comment mentioned oil heating system to imply central heating. Modern systems use electricity for the pumps, switching and control systems. Why you are arguing about this is beyond me.
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  148. It could end up being brutal. You just do not know.
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  149. Most of europe is not that cold.
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  150.  @_gungrave_6802  How do you transition away from gas?
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  151. Not enough for the whole of Europe but if Europe got is finger out it could tap into all its own reserves and also extend into north African and middle eastern supplies.
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  152. They are complaining because that is the price formation of American economics. You cannot compare it to other places. Now in putting that aside Europe's higher prices are not economically sustainable. The problem LNG is the infrastructure for the build out would cost enormous amounts of money and make it more expensive than pipe lines.
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  153.  @jerome96114  Merkely overseen the German transfer to Russian gas. So no excuses from you.
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  154. If Russia does such a thing the US will back factions in the region to ensure that the destabilizing effect can be used against Russia as well. I am just not sure what Putin's game is really as Russia is a massive place that has nowhere near tapped into its natural resources to build its economy.
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  155.  @jetmirmetaliaj8521  The US in the past had communists as well but they did not take the country down. There was even communists inside the fabled Manhattan project and it had no effect at all.
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  156.  @gHGhej  US and UK internal issues are part of the normal political discourse. Do Russians actually think that this is abnormal. The US had the exact same issues in the 1920s that it has today. 95% of Americans are unified in one thing and that is their love for their country just like the Russians and Chinese.
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  157. Merkel was fluent in Russian, educated at Karl Marx University and had made her way up the system during the era of the USSR.
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  158. Europe and Germany are the two most power export and manufacturing countries in the European region. Ireland does really well in that field but could do even better if it was to deregulate its internal economy and lower its tax liabilities for workers and small businesses. The beauty for Ireland is that it does not need to create any new ideas to overcome its problems in healthcare, education, transport or housing. Everything it needs is already known and tested. Take healthcare all Ireland has to do is adapt a singapore style system and with the amount of money Ireland spends it would end up being the best healthcare system in the world. To put things into context Ireland spends about €20 billion per year on healthcare and Norway spends about €10 billion. Ireland is on Swiss healthcare levels of expenditure.
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  159. That has nothing to do with Ireland housing crisis. Ireland simply is not building enough homes. It needs to deregulate house and property development. Right now nearly 70% of the house build cost in Ireland is regulations based. If Ireland was to reduce that to say 30% it would massively improve the house building output and reduce the cost of houses quite significantly. No point crying about refugees when the basics are not right.
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  160. Those people are moaning because they are subjected to those problems directly such as not being able to get a career up and going, not being to get on the housing ladder or being trapped in an economic zone that they find difficult to get out of. The only way ireland can get out of this is to grow its internal market place which means lowering taxes and deregulating like Ireland did for the corporate sector. If Ireland was to lower its income taxes, sales taxes and so on it would really allow the internal sectors to grow. Business startup in Ireland is very challenging and every county in Ireland should be booming on that front. If Ireland was to do that it would increase its economic activity significantly and the ordinary working class person would see that and be able to take part.
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  161. That is one of the stupidest comments I have ever read. Leprechauns are part of Irish culture just as Dwarves and Elves are part of Norway's. Get a grip of yourself and stop being offended.
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  162. If you are living in America you are better of economically than being in Ireland. In terms of European performance the average Irish person is better off.
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  163. I do not know where you got the idea that Ireland has one of the highest national debts relative to GDP. Ireland has a debt of about 48% to GDP. Ireland has one of the highest average household wealth levels in Europe bringing it within the levels of Switzerland when adjusted for house valuations. Ireland has one of the highest levels of house ownership in Europe and is on par with the likes of the US.
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  164. Ireland can most certainly afford it and can also afford to invest about €80 billion into its military. The problem Ireland has is its politics and media is more interested in partaking in international projects such as the EU and UN. Ireland could easily sort out its transport system by growing its internal economy and by focusing on its healthcare system with something like a public insurance model like Singapore or Switzerland. Just to put things into context Ireland spends about €20 billion per year on its healthcare budget and Norway spends about €10 billion per year. Ireland spends about the same level of money on healthcare that Switzerland does when population is adjusted. Yet Switzerland has one of the best healthcare systems in the world.
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  165. Ireland has a national debt of $250 billion and a GDP of $520 billion. That means Ireland's debt is about 48% per GDP. Switzerland has a debt to gdp of 39% which shows that ireland is in a good position in that context.
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  166. Irelands biggest export is Agriculture not Pharma.
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  167. It most certainly is not that and has one of the most advanced industrial bases in the world. What Ireland needs is for its internal economy to be developed and that can only happen if there is lower taxes, more construction and an easier system of setting up small businesses. If you are setting up a medium or large business in ireland it is really easy compared to other european countries but that is not the case for small start ups. Ireland has a very low up take in small businesses and also a very high failure rate.
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  168.  @Drifty40  Irish politics like most countries is a series of political party battles, media stories that are right in front of them and a good old fashioned bit of personal ideology. For the internal economy all they have to do is lower income taxes and make it easier for smaller business to function by reducing regulations. It is the irish people that need to demand that.
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  169. Ireland debt to GDP is about 48% while somewhere like Switzerland it is about 39%. It is not that significant to be honest. If Ireland was to grow its internal economy it would pay that debt of very quickly and the average citizen would partake in that growth as well.
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  170. That is pure outright nonsense. Ireland is nowhere near to be 50% foreign. Ireland is not under colonial rule. Everything Ireland does is at the wish of the Irish peoples.
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  171. Ireland has unemployment rate of 4.4% which is one of the lowest in Europe. Italy and Spain have unemployment rates that are twice that. Greece has an unemployment rate that is three times that.
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  172. Irish household wealth is one of the highest in Europe.
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  173. Ireland today is nothing like 2006. It does not have the same level of debt exposures or liabilities. What Ireland needs to do is deregulate its housing market and lower income tax levels. The recent middle tax and lower tax levels are simply not enough. In the US an income of €75000 per year would be taxed at about 12% liability in Ireland that same income would be taxed at about 40%.
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  174. The only way the government can make more rental properties is to stop regulating the market place and allow people to build properties.
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  175. Why? Because Ireland has never developed its internal economy because of the high taxes and restrictive regulations. That means there are areas where people in Ireland just go and travel or move to other countries.
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  176. If Ireland was to get rid of its welfare state mentality and embrace a true market economy its wealth and prosperity would go through the roof. Ireland does not even get close to maximising its total natural resources.
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  177. Ireland in the 1960s had tb outbreaks, no education system and so on. Today is much better but still has issues that it will sort out in time.
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  178. Those moves were not made in the late 1980s and had been around since the 1950s. It takes that long to build an economy of scale and to get that reputation. Ireland is still and untapped economy with large available work force. What Ireland needs to do now is to grow its internal economy by lower taxes, regulations and getting its own domestics industries built up. Ireland also needs to frack for natural gas.
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  179. The US military like Roman 2000 years ago is based on the market economy. It means development and advancement is based on commercial success. It then gives the government the power to build really fancy things and people mistakenly assume that it is the government building it because of lots of wealth. The iphone 13 is much more powerful than iphone 1 and the F-35 is much power powerful than the F-4.
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  180. All mechanical systems require maintenance. Most of the Russian nuclear warheads are 50 years old. They have had little maintenance. There is then the problem how well made where they to begin with. We are talking about a country that murder tens of millions of its own people while making lots of fancy looking aircraft and missiles. A complex project that everybody got to see was the Soviet equivalent of Concord that was based on stolen designs. But here is also an issue Russia nuclear warheads are based on stolen designs from the US as they could not do it on their own.
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  181.  @michaelryder9885  The West considers them to be a deterrent but does the East?
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  182.  @piotrd.4850  The US is nothing like the design bureaus of the USSR. The US has a marketplace where the best survive based on their market capabilities.
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  183.  @daveansell1970  Free market is always better hence why you are using technology from the free market. Everything around you is from the free market.
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  184.  @daveansell1970  Free Market and liberty are just better.
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  185. Overall worked better?
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  186. They are mechanical systems that require lots of maintenance.
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  187. Taiwan already has a large defensive airforce that would make it problematic for a Chinese naval invasion.
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  188.  @agentc7020  Outplayed? The French has the superior field position, More troops, better armaments and held the defensive position. The only way the German forces got into France was due to the French lines being deserted. There was a half empty attempt to repel the German forces after they broke the line but it was far too little far too late. "Paris would have been bombarded and for nothing" Austria though the exact same thing.
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  189.  @pepin8277  They welcomed them rather than fighting. If they had of fought they would have been destroyed. I am not saying that was the right thing to do but to claim they were all Nazi's is madness. Austria was not the only country to roll over to the Nazi's but they did it in the least amount of resistance.
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  190. A strong airforce in Taiwan can also repel a naval invasion.
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  191. Not at first but if a prolonged war was to start it most certainly would cause internal troubles.
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  192. Yes high tech equipment that is pushing the boundaries of performance is known to crash.
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  193. With President Biden China will expand even more. This is exactly what happened in pre WW2.
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  194.  @Carmeetkris  China would have to overcome Taiwan's air force and air defence system which is enormous. China does not have enough Paratroopers to overcome Taiwan.
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  195. It depends on what party is in control of congress in the US.
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  196. It is simple. Show them if they do not serve China will come and destroy them. Most Taiwanese people are keen to serve.
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  197.  @Mennion3  China does not have enough nuclear weapons to wage all out war.
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  198.  @andiaurox7927  You are talking crap. Taiwan has a cutting edge airforce that could easily repel a Chinese naval invasion.
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  199.  @rowback97  The most powerful nations allowed Cambodia to kill millions of people, allowed wars to break out all over Africa and just sat and watched millions starve and die. They allow China to get away with things because they do not tend to get involved in other people's lives unless they are a threat. China has a low standard naval force of glorified transporter ships. Taiwan has 30000 missiles that will turn any invading navy into a scrap yard.
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  200.  @rowback97  China has a gang of glorified fishing boats, merchant ships and substandard naval ships. Taiwan has has a first rate airforce that is capable of operating against naval attacks and layered on top of that Taiwan has a air defence system that would cut the substandard naval force of China to shreds. In that narrow section of sea China would get cut to shreds. China large numbers are all on paper and are not reality.
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  201. I think people are overestimating China's military and underestimating Taiwan's forces. If China thinks it will just come and invade and nothing else will happen then they are mistaken. Taiwan has a fully function large scale air defence system that could be used to target Chinese military assets on main land as well as target an invading navy. China simply does not have the capacity to carry out such a scaled navy invasion.
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  202. The EU is structurally flawed at an economic level and a political level. It cannot function into the future without it developing a new system but its main problem is that the left which dominates European political culture has stucks its finger into the eyes of several members so many times that it will never get those structural changes through.
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  203. It depends on what you mean by left. Are you talking about communism or do you mean a welfare state with trade unions.
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  204. Not every company as the resources to do it but those that are will do it.
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  205.  @cowboyCWOLF  I do not think they will do it either but they can do it if they want to. They would need to start doing lots of favors for the US and its various allies. It would need a regime change and an effort to liberalize its culture. There may come a point when China tries to do something to repair that relationship but it will be too late to save them self.
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  206. Chinese investments are like monopoly in that they are really worthless and just a game. Any country that is foolish enough to get involved in the Chinese financial system is stupid enough to not see what is coming.
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  207.  @williamthebonquerer9181  Contracts are just bits of paper nothing else. China is just an assembly centre and nothing else.
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  208.  @MrEvilshaggy  It is an indicator of the productivity of the economy. You are just playing these ideas in your head out of context.
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  209.  @MrEvilshaggy  GDP is not a measure of income. It is a measure of goods produced at market value. It has nothing to do with income.
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  210. No it is not as lawless as you imagine. The main manufacturing centers are not situated in the bandit regions. And they would never tolerate any of the cartels. What has allowed the cartels to function is that they operate within regions that are remote and they do not interfere in the main power regions. The Cartels rarely for example get involved in Mexico city politics or industry. I am not saying they are not active but they do not cause trouble in the same away. If Mexico was to become an industrialized country the cartels would probably end up becoming involved in business at some point. The money and power in that is just too tempting.
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  211.  @fallencielo2701  US weapons industry is struggling to meet the demand for their equipment world wide. That is not a new problem by any account. Even when the orders are in for US military equipment it takes time for the delivery even though no cash has passed hands.
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  212.  @jaybee4577  We can see it right now. No need to wait decades it is right in front of us.
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  213.  @theforsakeen177  China GDP is built on western consumerism and western industrial infrastructural investment. Africa has a population of 1.2 billion and the GDP for the whole of Africa per capita is about $2000. That will never be a consumer market for China never mind the fact China does not even have a consumer market of its own.
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  214.  @michaelwittkopp3379  China cannot projector power and because of its behaviors over the last decade it has damaged its standing in the world. The west is about to pivot away from China and that means it will not be able to get to the next level to enable it to exert influence. So China has three intersecting problems on the horizon that are already starting to take shape. Those are its demographic decline, lack of market economics and a very poor industrial base. To become a market economy is not just as simple as declarations it requires that a culture has certain features to allow it to develop. The only thing of concern in regards China is that its collapse could trigger it to start a major conflict in the Asian and pacific regions which could result in several hundred million deaths. It is one of the reasons why the West does not want to push China over the edge. No body wants to see that happen. The problem is that China is at the chess board but its positions are very poor and it cannot see that it has already lost.
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  215. 90% of US economic activity is based in internal trade. The US has very little exposure to China. The US is only exposed to 2% of trade to China. US relationships with China is nothing like German and Russia.
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  216.  @Commievn  You are really over playing it. Biden has ratified Trumps trade deals with China hence why the Chinese CP are whining like kids at the moment. Biden is not some radical president who does surprise policy that is innovative. He is the sort of presidential administration that follows through on laid out policy. I am not saying the Biden administration is good or historical but I am not either saying it is terrible like many are saying.
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  217.  @antoniomromo  The Jim Crow south was dealt with. The Democratic party there suffered for decades because of their Jim Crow politics. America tends to air its laundry in public for the world to see. There are very few other countries that do that. It can be messy at times but it is in public.
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  218.  @Imtiredofthisgrandpa  I am afraid the Nixon scandal, Clinton scandal would say otherwise. The US airs its views in open hence why there is considered a political divide.
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  219.  Elvin yeo  The US does not throw homeless people into camps.
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  220.  @hughmungus2760  China is a communist state and is nothing like the declaration by Monroe.
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  221.  @bluebottlecoffeeaddict6529  It is still true today as 30% of the Chinese workforce is directly employed in Agriculture. With nearly 50% of the country still living in rural communities.
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  222. There is no divide in America. What are you are seeing has always been US politics. It is that competition of ideas also experimentation that drives America forward. RIght now the left is dominating in America but that will all change once Americans understand what is happening. There is already a growing backlash in America against socialism and it will only keep growing.
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  223. China can start a major World War that would cost the lives of over 1 billion Chinese people.
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  224. US median income is $60,000 per year and one in three US incomes are in excess of $100,000 per years. Median US retirement fund is $1.5 million hence why there are more millionaires. Over 95% of all US millionaires are self made with half of them coming from lower income groups.
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  225. AI research requires thousands of projects, thousands of companies and economy that can then implement that technological development. AI is not going to come about from one invention. China does not have that type of economy that can be creative and implement such technological development. China will use the technology when it is mature but will not be a forward thinking force. China does not even have a google, Microsoft, apple or texas instruments.
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  226. Paper millionaires does not actually make them a millionaire. Buying properties because they are going up in value for the sake of it does not make it a productive asset especially when there is nobody living in the property.
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  227. Keep dreaming.
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  228. I suspect that the dictatorship will try to unleash a major war as their economy starts to fail.
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  229. They got taken out of poverty because the US made China its factory. The CCP was not responsible for that.
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  230. US conservatives are breeding like crazy. They are having 5 children on average and liberal socialists are having no children. US population is not going to increase over the next 20 years and there is going to be a 15% fall but what remains will be young and very determined.
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  231.  @3bydacreekside  And they ran it to the ground. Is that the And? you were after.
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  232. Detroit is a Democratic run city.
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  233.  @hakonhelgesen7659  VW are not better than Ford.
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  234. Detroit is an example of a democratic party run city.
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  235. @Ryan 8191 Yes Ryan democrats destroy everything.
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  236.  @jackpatteeuw9244  That is pure crap at best. Detroit was an industrial city for the last 150 years.
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  237. It is not as simply as just matching. The US has a completely different type of market place. So when you say match would you for example go with US healthcare, US low income taxes and the right for European citizens to own guns. If you want all of that then yes Europe in 100 years time may match the US.
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  238.  @tedcrilly46  Britain has a ruthless culture when it comes to PM. There is nothing new in that.
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  239. There was semiconductors in WW2. They were not integrated circuits of transistors if that is what you think of semiconductors. Diodes are an example of a semiconductor used in WW2 in radio and radar systems.
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  240.  @ritemolawbks8012  Before WW1 US economic output was 10 times larger than the UK. I am afraid the post WW2 myth that everybody is just repeating is nonsense. UK GDP in 1910 was 2 billion and in the US its GDP was 30 billion.
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  241. Europe is small fry compared to the US.
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  242. ASML would not exist without the US economic engine.
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  243. Europe already does that.
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  244.  @mammajamma4397  You are just living in a fantasy of your own making. European industry is not comparable to US industry.
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  245. Your statement holds no truths of any type. Europe would not exist without American military defence.
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  246.  @ClannCholmain  The US is the easiest country in the world to get rich.
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  247. Europe has not been relevant in innovation for the last 100 years.
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  248. China does not have a consumer market that is even competitive with what Europe has.
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  249. Detroit is in Michigan which as a state would be far nicer to live in than any European country. The median income in Michigan is $60000 per year which is still higher than any european country .
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  250. The US has a large number of SME's as well but they are not service providers to the larger companies and tend to trade independently.
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  251. Still not the reason why it existed as a center of innovation.
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  252. Not even comparable to any of the US industrial hubs.
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  253. China is not even close to being a superpower.
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  254. Ireland, UK, SPain, France, Germany, Italy and several other countries have potential natural gas reserves that are simply not be investigated because the very media that told people that green is good are telling the public that fracking causes earthquakes. I am afraid Europe is getting exactly what its behaviors would produce.
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  255.  @Big_Tex  You can google the term and find out what it means.
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  256. There is just no means for many european countries to import natural gas other than the existing pipe lines.
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  257. Europe freezing is not the problem. The real issue is Germany not having enough gas to power its electricity stations for industrial production.
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  258. Nope. Hydrogen is not a realistic fuel source for a car. A train could run on it with a large tank but why bother with that. Hydrogen would be most useful for small power stations that could be using it to generate electricity.
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  259. Many countries could have nuclear, gas, coal and renewable.
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  260. Hydrogen cars may work in Japan when it is a national effort but it will be very expensive and Japan does have the expertise and capital. That does not mean it can replace ICE cars in the rest of the world.
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  261. Nuclear has limitations.
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  262. Coal energy can still have its place and the by-products could be used in industry. That does not mean that all energy should be generated from coal.
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  263. It may work for Japan that are heavily invested in nuclear and do not have easy cheap access to natural gas. They will probably still have to use natural gas no matter what they are claiming.
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  264. If there is a lot of by-product why not use hydrogen even if it is over short distances.
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  265. UK energy should be nuclear, coal, natural gas and renewable.
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  266.  @tonychen76  Launching into space looks like it is about to get really cheap so sending small amounts into space and making it go to saturn would be one approach for the most high level risk waste.
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  267. They have their place but will not be taking over the whole world. Now Japan can do it because it does not have cheap easy natural gas and there is pressure on them to develop but it is not going to be cheap.
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  268.  @wallbangerproductions840  if it misses the sun the odds of it come straight back at earn are in lotto winning territory.
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  269.  @andrewgates8158  Yes it can be used for that as well and disposed of by whatever means. A holding station could also be developed in orbit around earth to send the most unstable elements.
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  270.  @liamwagner6597  It will be completely destroyed when it is launched into saturn. It could just easily be sent to saturned for use in various projects including low energy power systems and when it passes usage it could just be disposed off by sending it into saturn. It could also be sent into the sun.
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  271. Hydrogen would be most useful for small energy generation plants with good infrastructure. SO second to the nuclear plants there could be a series of smaller hydrogen plants that create electricity.
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  272. Thorium is just a concept and not a real type of reactor that is in demonstration.
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  273. Well the public is now getting a taste of reality and seeing what it is like to not have energy.
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  274. No matter what is claimed they are still going to need gas and oil for the foreseeable future.
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  275. If a hydrogen tank has a rupture then that helium is going to escape very rapidly and vent into the atmosphere.
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  276. Nuclear is not a cheap energy generation system. It has a place and will take that place but it will not be the primary source of energy.
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  277. Energy generated via coal could still be used. Cleaner coal plants that filter more of the by-products needs to also be used. Some countries have enormous coal reserves.
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  278. None of those regions offer any sort of real economic growth. China is an economy that is built on exports of foreign brands.
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  279.  @qjtvaddict  China is nothing like America. US debt is 99% internal and it has assets that run into the thousands of trillions. China is fooling it self if it thinks it can act like the US without earning the right to do so. China's economy is only about 30 years old.
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  280. @Phyarth Such a model cannot sustain its self in the long run.
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  281.  @Getahin  What makes you think China can offer any sort of economic growth. China as an economy is based on western manufacturing.
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  282. If they do that it will get the hearts of the Russians racing and may end up pushing Russia to the west.
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  283. Check out videos from the author Peter Zeihan and it will give a different view on what is coming down the line.
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  284. The US could easily afford it. Currently the US spends 2.5 trillion government programs and about 800 billion on the military. It could easily find a hundred billion here and there. Also US military and guidance systems has changed the game as well in terms of missile systems. A small military base with missiles could be very potent.
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  285. You are living in a fantasy world if you think the US is financially in decline. It has the most productive economy in the world, all the natural resources it needs and has thousands of trillions of assets against a debt liability of about $30 trillion.
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  286. Still need needs to help those nations and provide technical assistance with equipment and defence systems. There is no reason why France, Germany and UK cannot have an airforce that can protect itself against Russia in the case of an invasion. They also need to up their nuclear warhead game and missile defence system.
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  287. America is not internally polarized that is the media selling that story. Most votes simply want America to function.
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  288. That is pure nonsense. China cannot even feed it self.
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  289. Yes it can and will put away criminals who misbehave.
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  290. That is pure nonsense and stinks of EU/UN nonsense.
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  291. US needs more partners in different regions. Japan is one of the newest partners to step up and now has a military force that can rival China in that region. The biggest problem Asia and Europe has is one of demography where they do not have enough young people. China has an official birth rate of 1.7 children per women but it probably is much lower than that.
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  292.  @DirtyEdon  So you want to be controlled by cultures that have murder hundreds of millions of people?
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  293. US military spending is not being reduced. What is more likely is that welfare spending is going to be reduced and nobody would even notice.
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  294. Japan has really stepped up and is investing in its military capabilities.
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  295.  @jamesrey3221  Mexico is one of the US biggest trading partners. The US exports more goods to Mexico than they do to China. US total trade with Mexico is about 20% behind that with China and at some point it will surpass. Many US companies are now in partnership with Mexico for various services and goods.
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  296. US is best so get used to it.
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  297. Tough luck they can do as they please and there is nothing anybody can do about it.
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  298. The market place is the only way to run a country. Government down down approaches is the Russian and Chinese way not the American way.
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  299. China is an export economy that is nothing more than a US factory site. China is not low cost manufacturing anymore and their issue is that they are not high value either. Most US companies are not retool American manufacturing and their new partner is Mexico which has managed to keep their costs down but at the same increased productivity. China has no internal market place so it cannot really grow. If China was to adapt the American free market approach it would grow like crazy but it instead choose the communist model
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  300. The US is not a dynasty it is a culture that is built on liberty and its very structure is built upon it. Trying to get rid of that liberty is almost impossible.
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  301. She did not get to apply any economics at all. The only method of defeating inflation is to raise interest rates and to cut taxes. That is the only proven method.
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  302. That low birth rate from an economic point of view can be filled in by automation. The chance that Japan has is that it can over the next century rebuild its population by using automation as an economic stop gap. South Korea can do the same thing but China who has the exact same population structure is not going to be able to use automation as it has not even begun that process of automation development.
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  303. Japan already has a naval culture China does not. There will be no issues for Japan going forward in terms of its naval presence.
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  304. Japan has a large economic output and has built is place on exports to Europe and North America. The only way Japan will get economic growth is if it was to start having children again on a grand scale. If the 15 to 30 age group was to start having children again at a rate of 4 children per women it would start to grow its economy.
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  305.  @cacogenicist  Japanese defence is industry is massive and it would not be that much of a stretch for Japan to integrate its high automated industries into their defence s well. Japan simply is not exporting weapons at this point but the moment they decide they have to them and South Korea will be monstrous and have competition but there will be an endless list of customers.
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  306. Korea is facing a demographic collapse and needs those robots to bridge the gap for them when they start having children again just as Japan needs to. China and Russia cannot do this because they do not have a creative economic society. North Korea is having babies but not at a rate that will allow them to replace their aging society.
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  307. The US can do it as well but the scales are so large that the likes of South Korea will be needed as well. That does not change the fact that German industrial energy base is going to increase in cost 10 fold.
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  308. It takes several decades to build up a military industry like the US. European countries and the UK do already have native industries but their government value buying welfare votes more.
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  309. Greece has one of the largest navies in Europe.
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  310. Socialists do not really care about the things that matter. They care about taking over.
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  311. Germany has a massive airforce but most of it is storage. If they can get that gear out they will have a formidable force. The UK, French and Greek navies could easily out number Russia. And the UK, French, German, Italian and Spanish airforces would be to powerful for Russia.
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  312.  @justtrevor6004  The reason the word probably is used is because it is really unknown as to the full extent of what is available. What is publicly stated are the vessels that are in active service and on register. What is contained in the grey fleet is really unknown. The 68 subs you are talking about are what is active and on patrol but it would not be unimaginable to think that there more ready in waiting to be active if need be. There is nobody that can tell you how many fighter Aircraft the US has or how many Marines there actually are or even if Delta Force really exists. No body even knows what the Harp project was really about I would assume some sort of atmosphere analysis. How many drones does the US have is also unknown as it is not declared. The US directly has a military spending of about $1 trillion per year but the stated figure is about $700 to 800 billion.
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  313. The US probably has about 30 aircraft carriers, several hundred naval destroyers, probably over 100 submarines, the ability to produce far more naval ships than China and most importantly of all the US can produce over 5 billion barrels of Oil per year.
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  314. They were never private.
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  315. No body cares.
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  316. A Ford Class carrier is a naval asset buying elections is not.
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  317. Purchase parity only matters when it comes to general development it does not matter when it comes to cutting edge technological development. You cannot compare simple engineering with more complex engineering.
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  318.  @Matt-fu9wx  America has done it before and may do it again.
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  319.  @Infamous41  I do not think they did it with a GDP but did so with the threat of going to a concentration camp. Such milities have very poor moral and are not fighting for their homeland but something else.
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  320. What do you mean?
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  321. No country can hide spending 500 billion on their military.
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  322. It is the contractors that enables US technological growth. US industry is capable of fusing with its industrial military output. China is not even close to the US when it comes to that. The 1 trillion per year that the US spends does not account for industrial development. The US within a year could produce 10 million military vehicles and several hundred thousand aircraft. ballistic
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  323.  @chinadollfmd  The US has about 200,000 Marines which are elite shock troops that can be dropped into anywhere and function by them self. In a global war the US would produce about 1 million marines and probably 100,000 rangers.
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  324. The US spends 25% of its budget on development and not just wages. All those fancy aircraft, weapons systems, communications, new materials and so on all cost money. The US has been spending about 1 trillion per year for the last 70 years (inflation corrected). And here is the thing the US still has about 50% of its cold war nuclear weapons Russia might have about 5%. It is claimed that China has 250 nuclear warheads but that is very doubtful. The US military budget is about maintaining and also development which makes it very unique in world military forces.
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