Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "China vs USA: Geopolitics of the new Cold war" video.

What about India? I don't think that you can talk about the geopolitics of any real/potential Sino-American relationship without mentioning India. They're only the world's second largest country that shares a border and an unfriendly attitude towards China, and they're also ascendant economically. Plus, given the Chinese relationship with Pakistan, that's yet another reason for India to involve itself.
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@100Diyab I know that the Indo-American relationship isn't what it could be. But I think that this can change. I think that India and the US have many reasons to be allies - mainly that we share the threats of China and Islamic terrorism. Previously, the US backed Pakistan over India, due to the idea that the heavily Islamist nature of Pakistan would make them less susceptible to communism. With the changing nature of the world, I think that a realignment is in order - and that the world's two largest democratic nations have good reason to want to form an alliance.
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@TheOtakuPrince Uh, the US never used Pakistanis against the Taliban. Don't know where you got that bit of nonsense. And it was Pakistani malfeasance that caused the cooling of that relationship. US never funded bin Ladin/al-Qa'ida either. We did fund some mujahidin groups, but not that one. Blaming the US for Islamic terrorism is akin to blaming a rape victim for wearing a short skirt. It's the madrassas and the mosques that cause that particular problem - if not for the US, they'd have some other scapegoat to blame. Try to see things objectively, your extreme anti-American bias is showing.
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@TheOtakuPrince Okay, so there's some 9/11 conspiracy theory in that. Cool. It shows where you're coming from - basically that anything you say can be disregarded. You do realize that "the mujahidin" weren't one single group, right? That there were a number of different mujahidin groups all fighting against the Soviets, and that the US supported some, but by no means all of them. Now, I'm not saying that it was necessarily wise to support any of them, but the idea that we offered blanket support to anyone willing to pick up a rifle and go to Afghanistan is patently false. Again, your claim that the US "instigates terrorism" is utterly baseless, and shows a deep ignorance of history and geopolitics. I know that IS used to be al-Qa'ida in Iraq. I spent some time fighting those savages back when they were AQI in Fallujah. We had them beaten, then some bad decisions by the Obama administration allowed them to reorganize. Then we beat them again. What's your point? Trying to blame America for Islamic terrorism is idiotic. Yeah, the Pakistani government is "fighting the Taliban" by providing them with intelligence and support while telling the US that they're fighting them. The same Pakistani government who claims that they had absolutely zero idea that Usama bin Ladin was living right across the street from their military academy for several years, but made a point of imprisoning the doctor who helped the US find him. Yeah, I'm willing to believe anything they say at face value. You have no idea what you're talking about. I get it, you don't like America, because reasons. That doesn't make any of your conspiracy nonsense even remotely valid.
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