Why America's Currency Is the World's Problem

[thegodfather]

You actually believe that???

You do realize that a real all out world war (ie: the US against Russia/China) will eventually go nuclear. Now you're probably asking "who would be crazy enough to go nuclear?"...

Well think about it for a minute, any country who has nukes and is losing a war... what do they have to lose? Heck even the US would go nuclear in a minute if it was losing a war.

Mutual Assured Destruction has been the basis for the uneasy peace between the US and USSR since WW2, it has been proven without the shadow of a doubt that going nuclear = no winners.

To the younger generations who know little of the cold war, a world war going nuclear is an abstract concept. To those of us who lived thru the cold war and remember real international tensions and silly stuff like school drills, it's still very real.

Just my 2 cents...

Red

I think with the new advances in technology this may not be true. Have you seen the new airplanes equipped with powerful lasers that can destroy ICBMs in mid-flight? I think with technology like this, it would essentially allow us to launch nuclear ICBMs at the enemy, while destroying their incoming ICBMs from the sky. Also, assuming a war with a country who does not have nuclear capability would be a plus as well. In the cases of countrys who do, what about placing large amounts of suitcase nukes whithin their borders and then detonating them, they would have no chance to respond. The only serious issue would be those countries who have submarines with the capability of launching nuclear weapons, as there is only about a 15minute window from the time of launch to the time its hitting the US mainland.

[eliteforce]

THIS IS SUCH CRAP! Do you really beleive this BS? The anti-missile 'tech nology is a joke, at best it might knock a few of them down, Russia has thousands of warheads that can get thru, and China hundreds more; and don't forget the Russians change their ballistic missile technology to counter the anti-missile defense, and they will also target the anti-missile facilities for destruction and blind it..The missile defense the US is trying to install at great expense is not even intended for Russia, it's for Iran.

even that Iranian sub I just posted about can creep up on the east coast and blow away half the country with nuklear cruise missiles before the US even knows what hit it. The missile defense does not defend against that kind of attack at all.. you can never really track opposing subs because sonar technology cannot work long range.

another thing you fail to understand is that the radioactive fallout 'nuclear winter' from a massive nuclear attack will effectivly detroy all regional countries, not just the one your attacking..insuring that other countries will retaliate even if the target country neglected to-which it wouldn't.

as far as a conventional war-you can't fight a war w/o money..right now the US fights the Iraq war with borrowed money..much of it from China and the gulf arab states that supposedly the US would turn on..there is no 'war' that the United States can win simply by going out and inventing a reason for the war-like they did in Iraq; an unjust war guarantees failure..they can't even mount a raid on Iran w/o sustaining as much or more damage than they inflict.


>If Im not mistaken, It looks now that the US is wining the war in Iraq. The war is hardly making headlines anymore. Iran will most likely be >next. If nothing else makes sense, this does.

Yes you are gravely mistaken, the US is not 'winning' in Iraq now, they still come under constant attack everyday, it is still protracted warefare and it is now more expensive than before, not less..coalition casualties past few months have been around 40, instead of previously being around 60-80 a month..this is mostly due to improved techniques for avoiding casualties..AND the insurgents can step up the fighting later on..the Iraqi 'army' is still unable to control any territory w/o direct USM support..but at the end of the day, the US will still have to draw back out of Iraq..sometime in 2008-2009 and at that point the various insurgent milities will take over and the government that was installed will collapse like a house of cards.

I think with the new advances in technology this may not be true. Have you seen the new airplanes equipped with powerful lasers that can destroy ICBMs in mid-flight? I think with technology like this, it would essentially allow us to launch nuclear ICBMs at the enemy, while destroying their incoming ICBMs from the sky. Also, assuming a war with a country who does not have nuclear capability would be a plus as well. In the cases of countrys who do, what about placing large amounts of suitcase nukes whithin their borders and then detonating them, they would have no chance to respond. The only serious issue would be those countries who have submarines with the capability of launching nuclear weapons, as there is only about a 15minute window from the time of launch to the time its hitting the US mainland.

[Logan13]

The value of the dollar effects every country. Since the US is the largest market on the planet for much of the world's goods, ****ing with the dollar will have a dramatic effect on world economy. The perverbial sky has been falling for decades now, and yet the US presses on as the leader of the Free World. Everyone loves to hate a winner, just ask New York Yankee fans.......