if the USSR and communism had not collapsed.. (4 Viewers)
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Juventico said:
Militarily... 
pumpkin: ) Things are just plain worse than 10 or 15 years back. Apparently to try and just get some money in their hands a certain former superpower did a Juventus-like garage sale, and thus russian made machineguns, tanks, jets and other lots of bang-bang-kill-kill thingies ended up in the wrong hands, giving countries with less-than-benevolent leaders a shot to kill anyone that isn't his friend. Of course, the guys that disagree with him and have some money can arm themselves too, so we have a violent world overflooded with weapons. Sadly though, instead of killing each other, those weapon-crazy sickos decide to kill each others' civilians. Resulting in terrorists on one side, and state-terror on the other.
pumpkin: ) Things are just plain worse than 10 or 15 years back. Apparently to try and just get some money in their hands a certain former superpower did a Juventus-like garage sale, and thus russian made machineguns, tanks, jets and other lots of bang-bang-kill-kill thingies ended up in the wrong hands, giving countries with less-than-benevolent leaders a shot to kill anyone that isn't his friend. Of course, the guys that disagree with him and have some money can arm themselves too, so we have a violent world overflooded with weapons. Sadly though, instead of killing each other, those weapon-crazy sickos decide to kill each others' civilians. Resulting in terrorists on one side, and state-terror on the other.
Point is if you want arms, you can buy them regardless.
My personal favourite is when the US and Britain invaded Iraq and got shot at by American, Dutch, German and French weapons. Gorgeous stuff. Especially since any weapons produced in Western nations are highly advanced and the countries in question make sure they sell cheap rip-offs to third world regions. Just in case they wanna invade some time.
That's totally right...
I heard that the F-16 plane which is gifted to Israel has very different characteristics from the same plane which is sold to Saudi Arabia...
I don't blame the US authorities though because they know that those planes which are loaded to Israel are the ones which will be used while those which are bought by Arab countries are bought just to feed Mr. Rust...
I heard that the F-16 plane which is gifted to Israel has very different characteristics from the same plane which is sold to Saudi Arabia...
I don't blame the US authorities though because they know that those planes which are loaded to Israel are the ones which will be used while those which are bought by Arab countries are bought just to feed Mr. Rust...
its true but itsnot the f-16, the usa gives saudi arabia the f-15 S (s= saudi version) where as isreal has the f-15 I. they look the same but they r different, the f-15 I is very offensive where's the saudi version is defenisve with a shorter range. another comparison is eygpt.
the f-16s eygpt have are defensive ( carry certain types of air ro air missles where as the isreal versionis highly equiped with much better radars and air to air artillery.
the reason for this difference is to maintain a tactical balance which in reality is isreal superiority in the region. this in my opinion is the result of the ussr breaking down. now most the arab countries apart from syria and libya get there military equipment from the usa and therefore they dont get a variety of equally balanced weapons. for example in the 6 year war between eygpt and isreal. the eygptain army that was brought to crumbles in 1967 was fully built and re-armed with soviet weapons and with isreal always getting highly advanced weapons from usa the soviets always closed down the gap between us. ( ther is no doubt the soviet weapon is effective but not as accurate or moderniszed as the us military equipment even back in those days.) so the region that lost aot from the break up of the soviet union are the arabs them selves.
lets not forget the u.s.s.r had there own goals in the middle east cos of its stratgic importance adn due to the sources this region is bless with like the srongest weapon which is oil. so i would't really go runing and say the u.s.s.r loved arabs for the sake of it no thats not true there were benefits for them too and thats why they helped the region alot. now with one super power things are looking very crazy. its true no more nucluer weapon face offs but its not any peaceful is it.
That's not true, the EU is kicking American butt in the courts of the World Trade Organisation. The reason: because economics is the only field the EU has actually unified in.
There will be no political or juridical union any time soon, so there will be no European superstate or superpower in the foreseeable future either.
There will be no political or juridical union any time soon, so there will be no European superstate or superpower in the foreseeable future either.
