Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "USA vs BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China u0026 South Africa) 2017- Who Would Win?" video.

  1. This is a fairly vacuous comparison. None of the BRICS nations are going to unite to form a force, and are in fact more likely to start wars with each other. Further, the real comparison, GDP per capita, is unmentioned here for the obvious reason: it is stacked in the favor of the USA, which is $57k, vs. Brazil $15k, Russia 26k, China $15k and South Africa $13k. The USA spends more money than other countries on defense because we have better technology than other forces and are more effective than others, again per capita, and that relationship to per capita GDP is not an accident. Finally, you have to consider the force equations of each of the respective countries. Russia and India devote a lot of their forces to counter china, but not each other, since they don't share a land border. China counters the USA in the pacific, but probably still reserves the majority of their forces for Russia and India, their bordering states. Brazil could effectively do without any military, since the only credible threat is Argentina, and nobody would take Brazil's territory even if it were offered free. South Africa has a large military but no credible enemies, which leads you to understand the real reason their large military exists, to control their own people. India does not consider the USA as a threat, quite the contrary they consider the USA an ally. Thus the net force facing the USA is China and Russia, and neither state seriously considers the USA to be an invasion threat. Thus I sleep well at night.
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