Originally Posted by AndyJWest (Post 411547)

Yup, with chemical weapons made from materials supplied by the US (the Ronald Reagan administration had taken Iraq off the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, enabling this), along with Singapore, the Netherlands, Egypt, India and West Germany. And of course, the US is still happily backing dictators where it finds it convenient...

Originally Posted by swiss (Post 411522)

Actually - you did.
The chengs beat you strategically everywhere, they even will dominate the pacific in the near future.
Have you ever wondered why they behave like they do?

Party A(USA) spends billions on Army they dont need and on a war which offers nothing in return.

Party B(China) spends almost nothing on its army but billions on infrastructure projects all over the planet(moon scouting too, actually).

What will the the situation be in 20 or 30 years to come?
The chengs will have earned trillions on their projects and almost singlehandedly control all strategic resources on the planet. Given the fact there was no thread in the past decades they also have enough cash to build one huge mofo Army in no time. And they already control their own "business" airfields in every corner of the world.

The USA on they other hand will be bled dry - without the power to counter it. Ever heard of they expression "being on small boat to china"?

Dont believe me?
Why do they buy a shitty old communist carrier? Because they need to know how to build them. Once they figured it out, they can produce them like bakeries donuts.
Same with the china stealth fighter, they dont want to produce a top of the line fighter, they especially dont want to scare the crap out of the todays superpowers. Imho, this is a large scale prototype run. Learn how this stuff works and how fast you can produce it.
If you got blueprints and understanding of the technology, the only two things keeping you back are: Money and manpower. They have both.

just my ¢2

Originally Posted by raaaid (Post 411594)

i completely falsify that by war being the biggest bussiness in the world

usa controls 1s t business: war

2nd business: oil

3rd business: drugs

usa is getting the big fish china the samller ones

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber (Post 411565)

Well if you like that - get this one,

Britian sold Saddam compaonants to build a super gun so he could he could shoot at Jordan(?). The "pipes" were huge! During the Gulf War the SAS blew it up... :-P

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway (Post 411064)

Actually the The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, more commonly known as the Templars, are an interesting choice as ...

1) they were declared heretical in France and officially disbanded by the church in 1312. They were not exactly exalted heroes of Christendom towards the end.

2) unlike the Hospitallers, who left a humanitarian legacy in the form of St John's ambulance, the Templars were the worlds first corporate bankers, and the first to use control of money to manipulate politics ... which led to their eventual downfall.


To be honest the people who can truly trace their lineage back to the Knights Templar are not the American Marine Corp, it is Goldman Sachs.

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider (Post 411932)

in a way..

The Church did grant The Templars exoneration from all forms of payment to the Church (even the obligatory Tithing), at their inception, in return for doing the Church's land grabbing in The Holy Lands.
The real problems arouse when the Church wanted to get its (fair share) hands on the huge amount of wealth amassed by the Templars in their trophy runs

Originally Posted by raaaid (Post 411942)

wasnt vietanam war extended so the general motors flourished?

usa makes the best weapons, weapons is number one bussines in the world and there are wars all over

this money gets invested in oil

and then this gets invested in drugs so a plant gets its value multiplied 1000000x

sounds like good bussiness to me but well that if you like printed paper

well but this was what i thought wehn i was 18 now i stimate 99% of the world pouplation have acces to time travel and stages the world for the other 1%, the untouchable by the force of paradox