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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #16 (permalink) Sun Apr 22, 2007 21:54 pm   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

Hi Jamie,

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If there is any big threat, the US has to come in and rescue them.


When has this happened?

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There is a feeling of kinship between the US and the UK (at least from the American side), and if someone attacks "our English cousins", as Americans often still call them, it feels to us almost the same as if someone had attacked Canada or a US state.


Have you already forgotten about Canada's head of state?

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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #17 (permalink) Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:48 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

i am always imagining america as a gangleader . The guy lounges about carring a huge a bar of iron. when he sees the folk who is an offence to his eye. hehe sorry: first:"warning". if you are still disobedient the unlucky guy will be greeted with the BIG IRON BAR.
Nowadays the united states is the only big dog in the world.... It is decided by his national characteristic-aggressive
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #18 (permalink) Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:27 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

aleaf wrote:
i am always imagining america as a gangleader . The guy lounges about carring a huge a bar of iron. when he sees the folk who is an offence to his eye. hehe sorry: first:"warning". if you are still disobedient the unlucky guy will be greeted with the BIG IRON BAR.

Interesting you would say that. President Theodore Roosevelt, at the turn of the 20th century, said that US foreign policy should be, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Where are you, by the way? And what does "the multraunderstanding" mean at the bottom of your post?
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #19 (permalink) Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:23 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

Mutual-understanding* (understanding each other) just a typo Surprisedo
i am a chinese i just want to express my idea i don't want to offend anyone........................
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #20 (permalink) Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:15 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

Che Gevara wrote:
I mean people,culture,history,traditions e.t.c
Not 200 million weapons

You're wrong here. They have all of those things.
Anyway, don't listen to Zadornov, but try to gather the information about the USA from more reliable sources WinkSmile
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #21 (permalink) Tue Apr 24, 2007 13:06 pm   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

nice to meet you here. i am aleaf from china.........
If you say i am wrong please put forward some proof to support your opinion
the conclusion i drew is based on the past behavior of usa. i mean what the usa had done and said really like the comment i had on the country.....such as vietnam war , korean war, Iraq war and the action the country will carry out on Iran and North korean.................
The united states was involved in almost every major war which had happened in the world......................
Facts speak louder than eloquence....................
You live on the Mar how could you know the case on the earth??????? LOL
By the way what does Zadornov mean? the languae on the Mar?
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #22 (permalink) Tue Apr 24, 2007 13:58 pm   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

Jamie (K) wrote:
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Because of its well-organized economy they've achieved this position still keeping it firmly.

I think you're mistaken here. The US is successful because its economy is mostly NOT organized! Countries that try to organize their economies too thoroughly either never become successful, or they crash at some point.


OK.The USA is the most powerful state for it's NOT WELL-ORGANIZED ECONOMY. I understood.
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #23 (permalink) Tue Apr 24, 2007 18:09 pm   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

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If you say i am wrong please put forward some proof to support your opinion the conclusion i drew is based on the past behavior of usa. i mean what the usa had done and said really like the comment i had on the country.....such as vietnam war , korean war, Iraq war and the action the country will carry out on Iran and North korean.................
The united states was involved in almost every major war which had happened in the world......................

The Korean War was a result of an imperialist attempt by the People's Republic of China to spread its communist system, and political and economic control, to the neighboring country of Korea. China provided weapons, supplies and 2 million troops to the North Korean communists and installed a genocidal totalitarian dictatorship there, on the Stalinist or Maoist model. The United States supported the Republic of Korea and still does. I think any reasonable person can compare conditions in North and South Korea and see very clearly which country was more benevolent to its portion of Korea and where Koreans have been and still are better off.

The Vietnam War was a result of an imperialist attempt by the People's Republic of China to spread its communist system, and political and economic control, to the neighboring country of Vietnam. China provided weapons, supplies and hundreds of thousands of troops to the Vietnamese communists, and to the communist forces in other parts of Southeast Asia, and installed genocidal totalitarian dictatorships in them, on the Stalinist or Maoist model. The United States supported the government of South Vietnam, and the non-communist governments of Laos and Cambodia. After the US retreated -- in keeping with the usual Chinese way of doing things -- hundreds of thousands of political prisoners were banished to camps, and tens of thousands of them died. The Chinese-backed government of Laos dropped biological toxins from airplanes in an attempt to exterminate the entire Hmong ethnic group, and the Chinese-backed communists in Cambodia killed more than 3 million people, including almost everyone with a higher education.

The Chinese government is currently in violation of an international weapons embargo against Sudan and is selling the Sudanese government the arms it needs to continue its genocide in the south, so basically China is supporting a genocide that has so far killed about 400,000 people. (China has oil interests in Sudan.)

I could go on and on about Chinese imperialist interventions in other countries, but this is enough for one day.

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Facts speak louder than eloquence....................

That's right.
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #24 (permalink) Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:33 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

Firstly, even though the Korean War was a result of an imperialist attempt by the People's Republic of China to spread its communist system, what is wrong? At that time Korean was just stepped out of the world war 2 and the Korean communist will defeat the corrupted Korean government of that time, please remember it was the choice of Korean ppl. If they wanted to be a socialism country, it is noun of american’s business……Don’t werstern countries spread their own capitalism system?
Secondly china has never attempted to control any other countries. Chian is a country suffering from colonizing and invading for over 100 years. Besides china has never invaded any counties in his history (except Yuan dynasty but please remember Yuan dynasty was controlled by the minority not Han nationality)Even the famous ancient military building the Great War is a kind of fortification. Gunpowder first came in in China but we have used it for celebrating festivals for over 1000 years but at last we were invaded by you western countries and japan…..aha radiculos…………
So we never wanted to control any country Quite the reverse is true, we just want to help the country on the request of Korean ppl.
Thirdly, We Chinese have always opposed the arms race and advocated that the danger of war surly we opposed any kind of invading, it is the reason that we cut the friendly relationship with Soviet Union in the 60s of last century.
Forthly, how do you think that any socialism societies are all a genocidal totalitarian dictatorship it is just another social system totally different from the system which ever existed in history.. Surely the system has lots od deficiency just as any other systems in the world. But if it is the willing of its own ppl. Why not?

Quote:The Vietnam War was a result of an imperialist attempt by the People's Republic of China to spread its communist system, and political and economic control, to the neighboring country of Vietnam.
Again you referred to the its communist system, and political and economic control, to the neighboring country of Vietnam. But why do you think the USA lost the war in the end? Vietnam ppl prefer it to the control by the foreign countries like French and the USA............

Quote:Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners were banished to camps, and tens of thousands of them died.
But do you know how many communist were killed by South Vietnam government? If they didn’t Intrigue against socialism government and the stability of the society. I don’t think they will be killed. Furthermore I am not sure the figures you pointed…. Has it been exaggerated? I don’t know and you don’t know. I don’t think media is a believable source………….anyway any media is just a propaganda tool of the government……..at least express certain political standpoints

Quote: The Chinese government is currently in violation of an international weapons embargo against Sudan and is selling the Sudanese government the arms it needs to continue its genocide in the south, so basically China is supporting a genocide that has so far killed about 400,000 people. (China has oil interests in Sudan.)
But haven’t your country been supportingt the Tibetan independence and Xinjiang and Taiwan? And what I have pointed here is just an internal affair of China . I really don’t want to talk about what the USA had done to other countries again………

PS have you ever seen we sold weapons and supported the Sudanese government youself? I don’t think so

Okay just stop here today… maybe my English is not good enough to express my opinion.
Tell you the truth most Chinese feel angry about what you American had done………………
Facts speak louder than eloquence....................But the facts you talked of above are not true………..

Facts speak louder than eloquence....................it is really right………….
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #25 (permalink) Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:51 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

My grandmother who died 1n her ninties almost 10 years ago she was a farmer and experienced Qing Dynasty, The Republic of China and the PRC ...... she said :"Chinese Communist Party and the socialism society are the best"
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #26 (permalink) Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:11 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

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:"Chinese Communist Party and the socialism society are the best"


My grandmother has experienced 1905 revolution both World Wars ,Siberian Beauty and Communist from "hard nuts" up to "playing idiots" (more or less money is good for everybody)
and finally final democracy ; She used to say they are the worst times now because I am over 90 years old and sex doesn't make so much fun as before.

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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #27 (permalink) Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:19 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

The soviet Unions and other socialist countries lost because they didn't understand the core (nature) of communist.....they diviated the correct directions.......
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #28 (permalink) Wed Apr 25, 2007 15:54 pm   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

There are so many possible variables. I'll list a few of the big ones. Some of these are related:

1. Personal/business economic liberty (fairly low taxes -- relatively little socialism)

2. Personal consumer liberty (buy more or less what you want to)

3. Personal production/marketing (etc.) liberty (produce and sell more or less what you want to)

4. Personal investment liberty (buying/selling bonds/stocks)

5. High-quality labor and management in many companies

6. Above five mean that risk/ownership is rewarded rather than punished (by government, at least)

7. Above six mean that there is competition in nearly every sector -- strong entrepreneurial spirit

8. Above seven mean that the economy serves consumers, investors and businesses

9. Above eight yield the foundation for a strong economy -- investors give money to companies, companies sell goods/services and employ people, and consumers buy things. Low unemployment is caused by plentiful jobs and the willingness to work. (I won't get into the direct link between interest rates and unemployment rates, and what they have to do with the economy -- that is a paper unto itself. Nor will I get into trade.)

10. The Cold War had a great deal to do with our military strength -- we had to save the world from Communism/Socialism, and with our strong economy we were able to outspend the Russians in the arms race... which eventually helped bankrupt the Soviet economy.

Well those are ten reasons, anyway. hehe

***Ahhh, forgot a few more big ones:

1. Infrastructure -- helps in the distribution of goods as well as the ability of consumers to get to them (so that goods can be bought).

2. Resources (won't get too specific, but a country this size is bound to have some decent natural resources)

3. Technology

4. Capacity (space and ability to produce)

I think the single biggest reason is freedom. Without freedom from undue taxation, for instance, fewer people would go into business. If fewer people went into business, fewer people would have jobs and investment opportunities, both of which help people make money. If fewer people have jobs, more people will require help from the state (welfare -- socialism). If more people require help from the state, taxes either must be increased (usually on the rich) or spending decreased elsewhere. If taxes are increased on the rich, the rich have less money to pump into new businesses, jobs are less plentiful, products are not as good (due to less competition, less of a need to innovate), prices are higher, etc.

So we keep our taxes relatively low, our economic freedom relatively high...
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #29 (permalink) Wed Apr 25, 2007 18:11 pm   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

aleaf wrote:
nice to meet you here. i am aleaf from china.........

Me too, I'm from Russia Wink
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If you say i am wrong please put forward some proof to support your opinion

Actually it was CheGevara's opinion that I commented on
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By the way what does Zadornov mean? the languae on the Mar?


If you dont speak Russian, you will never understand it... I presume that CheGevara does, cuz he's from Tbilisi,Georgia, and virtually my message was addressed to him.

BTW, Mar is a bruise, but my location is Mars Wink
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Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world? #30 (permalink) Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:07 am   Why is the US the most powerful nation in the world?
 

Actually it was CheGevara's opinion that I commented on

sorry i fired at the worng terget.............. Embarassed
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