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Originally posted by Gauss
About bleedin' time somebody does something.
Of course, with doing something also comes the responsibility of keeping the more fanatical rebel groups out of the new government. Sigh... I miss the Cold War. Things were much more simple back in those days.
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by Alternative4u
Maybe your contact should get another crystal ball because the one he's using seems a bit faulty at the moment. Russia isn't going to attack anyone and neither is China. The West keeps those countries alive with our investments - if we pulled out all our cash they'd be canabalising each other within a week.
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by Alternative4u
Maybe your contact should get another crystal ball because the one he's using seems a bit faulty at the moment. Russia isn't going to attack anyone and neither is China. The West keeps those countries alive with our investments - if we pulled out all our cash they'd be canabalising each other within a week.
With any luck our commandos will get into the presidential palace, find the criminal Bashar,
and execute him.
Originally posted by darkbake
reply to post by DevilJonah
China and Russia and Syria and Iran are planning on doing some war games this summer, so probably.
Originally posted by Power_Semi
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by Alternative4u
Maybe your contact should get another crystal ball because the one he's using seems a bit faulty at the moment. Russia isn't going to attack anyone and neither is China. The West keeps those countries alive with our investments - if we pulled out all our cash they'd be canabalising each other within a week.
LOL - what planet are you on?
Our investments to them? Pulled out all OUR cash?
Man, we owe them TRILLIONS for THEIR investment in US.
All we're giving them is bits of paper with IOU written on them.
Originally posted by ThisIsNotReality
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by Alternative4u
Maybe your contact should get another crystal ball because the one he's using seems a bit faulty at the moment. Russia isn't going to attack anyone and neither is China. The West keeps those countries alive with our investments - if we pulled out all our cash they'd be canabalising each other within a week.
HA! Aha ha haha hahaha... Good one! You're joking, right? What parallel universe did you come from if you're not? You must have accidentally walked through a black hole or something.
Guess who the US owes money to? That's right.
China is already the biggest foreign buyer of U.S. government debt with holdings of more than $1.1 trillion as early 2011. But U.S. statistics showed just $2.3 billion in Chinese direct investments in companies with operations in the United States at the end of 2009, the report said.
That is approximately 0.1 percent of the $2.3 trillion in total foreign direct investment, or FDI, in the United States.
China's share is less than many smaller countries such as Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Brazil and India and dwarfed by the biggest foreign investors in the United States, such as Britain, Japan and Germany, the report said.
However, Chinese investment in the United States already is increasing, likely rising by more than $5 billion in 2010 and supporting more than 10,000 American jobs, the report said.
U.S. companies have about $50 billion invested in China, compared to the low level of Chinese investment here.
Originally posted by Trajan
It is a fact they train harder than other nations because we have no conflicts with other nations.
your 10,500 troops opposed to 500,000 Army Soldiers (That's only Army.. don't forget Marines and both their reservists).. let me know how that works out for you. That's almost like the ratio of the Chinese Army against the U.S.
10,500 Active and 9,800 Reserves isn't so bad if that is what you are getting at. We don't fight conventional warfare. We fight guerrilla warfare and only fight in static defences under UN missions.
I guess we're just supposed to take your word for it right?
That said, if you want to nit pick about numbers then so be it. But just remember that the Irish Brigades take some of the lowest casualty rates in any EU Battlegroups. :-)
You clearly had no idea of what your military standard is.
I train with U.S. Marines (your so called Elites) as part of Ireland's PFP programme with NATO, and let me tell you, they are nowhere near the level of Britain's regular or territorial army.
Originally posted by Flavian
reply to post by DevilJonah
Any other sources than RT?
Can't find any UK sources saying British troops involved in any action in Syria? Makes me doubt the credibility of the story to be honest. Rightly or wrongly, our media usually bangs the drum for any action involving our forces.
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by Power_Semi
Sure, look up the statistics for how much the Western countries have invested in China and Russia over the last 30 years and how much Russia and china have invested in the western economies, then get back to me on that one. The end of the cold war was down to economics, guess who won that one.
If we tank as a source for China's products - they're stuffed, they're totally dependant on the west and they know it.edit on 26-6-2012 by Hopeforeveryone because: (no reason given)