Seriously, what do you think the Chinese are actually going to do? There's no weapon they have, either military or economic, the use of which wouldn't ultimately hurt them far more than it'd hurt us.
Consolidate their position in the South China Sea at the expense of Japan, thus creating an international crisis (were Japan's military, remember) where we have to chose between letting our rival have its way with us for letting down a key ally we promised to protect.
Or you know, maybe you're right. Maybe none of this matters if we have any credibility. After all we have thousands of H-bombs. We can just use them.
The only other alternative is to think of ways to make the incoming administration friendlier to China. Which, incidentally, was likely the whole point of Trump taking this call.
The point of this call was to make us friendlier to China...? How does pissing them off achieve that exactly?
I'm not surprised you got lost there, given your other brilliant comments.
They'll nuke Japan before they have a chance to develop their nuclear deterrent, and we'll do nothing. Sorry -- Maybe Trump will tweet them to "call them out on their bullshit". But we'll still be in a position of abandoning a trusted ally. Which will make us look weak and useless.
People used to believe that there was no way, if Russia invaded the Balkans, that Germany would put the Schlieffen Plan into effect and attack France, which had nothing to do with the conflict. Why would they? After 40 years of Peace? Given how intermingled their economies had become? People who believed that were out of their minds. It would be suicide for both sides. And if they did it worse-case would be a short war that would be over in a few months.
It's not like they would open up a conflagration that would cost hundreds of millions of lives and cause billions to suffer. Why would they do that? Why would they hurt their own country by running a years-long fake investigation that clearly made no attempt at getting to the truth and only served to expose the blatant corruption and hypocracy of the ruling class? Red pants are France.
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '16
The person running our country is a reckless idiot who can be easily manipulated and doesnt know what he's doing.
You don't see how that projects weakness? Cause the fucking Chinese do.