(05-26-2023, 01:19 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(05-26-2023, 12:37 PM)Caldrac Wrote: It's West Vs. East. As our Government and it's policies along with the rest of the Western Unified Front have specifically inched closer and closer towards Russia and China's neighboring countries, the entire stage has become more and more volatile. Something most Americans don't want to look at and accept is that we're the only country on this globe that has a [BLEEP] military base.... EVERYWHERE. Nobody would put up with this here on our soil. You would be on edge all the time if you had a Russian or Chinese base, knowingly within a few stone's throw's away (military weaponry wise) from your home, your children's schools, your workplace, your business, your parent's home, your grandparent's hospital, etc. 

Map of the Week: Mapping the Global U.S. Military Bootprint | UBIQUE (americangeo.org)

List of countries with overseas military bases - Wikipedia

It's an ugly truth man. It's not hidden in plain sight. It's pretty damn obvious that we're the Imperials in the grand scheme of things. But, but, but, but... it's for "Democracy" and "Freedom". Yeah, okay, or, maybe, maybe, it was just a rich man's trick for them to steal resources, set up a coup and establish their own personal political figure and government to play ball with us. Since, you know, "we're the good guys". 

Don't get me wrong. It's [BLEEP] up. Hate to say this. But, would rather it be them instead of us. But, at some point, a day of reckoning will come. It might be from the East. It might be from the West. At some point, we're going to see an event that's so devastating that it will ultimately unify us all into something we probably wanted to a degree, just depends on who or what the spearhead of leadership will be once the dust settles. 

It's inevitable though.

In all seriousness, I disagree on the last paragraph.  Many forms of government have come and gone throughout the history of man.  All of them flawed, some more than others.  Our existing form happens to be one of the least flawed, but still flawed nonetheless.  Man's desires, greed, self-interest and motivations have remained the same throughout recorded history though and the "elites" have always existed as well and always will exist.  They just operate under different rules depending on what the form of government is and some forms appoint who the elites are vs. inheriting the status or allowing someone to be self-made and achieve that status as our form of government allows.  I don't forsee such a unifying event (not a lasting one anyway) as you do aside from joking about aliens landing which would actually unify humanity for a time.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."