Peace for a Century: To 2124

[August1991]

To live peacefully and travel, trade easily, we ordinary people ask you politicians/diplomats to do this:

-dissolve NATO

-make Taiwan part of China, like Hongkong

-unite Korea

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About the Middle East and Africa, agree to disagree.

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As Mearscheimer does not say, we no longer face an ideological/communist enemy

As Mearscheimer wisely says, we now live in a multi-polar world. Reagan won. Where is a Nixon when you need him.

 

[Michael Hardner]

Dissolve NATO just as Russia is escalating, its aggression in Europe? 

 

Preposterous.

[sharkman]

Imagine there's no Russia...perhaps August has a magic wand.

[herbie]

Unite Taiwan & China and Korea even though the people that live there are opposed?
Smoke from that pipe long enough one might suggest uniting Gaza, Israel and the WestBank into a single secular state too. Hell toss Lebanon and the Golan Heights into the mix.

[myata]

Imaginary world? Easily.

[August1991]

The World gangsters need a sit-down.

It happened in 1815 and 1945.

(Versailles 1919 decided nothing.)

[August1991]

On 8/24/2024 at 4:19 PM, herbie said:

Unite Taiwan & China and Korea even though the people that live there are opposed?
Smoke from that pipe long enough one might suggest uniting Gaza, Israel and the WestBank into a single secular state too. Hell toss Lebanon and the Golan Heights into the mix.

Taiwan, China?

North/South Korea?

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I have been to Crimea, Kiev.

I have been to Israel and Jordan.

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Ordinary people want diplomats to get along.

[August1991]

Looking back, in the 1910s, the world powers (dlplomats, politicians) could have avoided the disaster of Summer 1914.

 

[August1991]

I was expecting a response/post.

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In 1989, the wall fall.

In 1996, we had a wonderful world. Then Clinton bombed Serbia.

In 1991, Bush Snr defended Kuwait.

In 2003, Bush Jnr invaded Iraq.

 

[August1991]

We are living in a vacuum.

[August1991]

I would prefer a change in the US but whoever wins in Nov 2024 - we can have world peace.

The world (China, Russia, India) must accept that Reagan/Lee Quan Yew  won - free markets work.

America (Reagan) must accept it is a multipolar world.

[August1991]

Nationalism? Define it.

Language? Religion? What tattoos a person has?

[August1991]

Unlike Mearsheimer, I am very optimistic.

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We have survived a Cold War - potential disaster.

We've even survived a so-called uni-polar world.

Now, we're in a New World - like post 1648.

[eyeball]

Mearsheimer makes a lot of sense like Gene Roddenberry.

Now we're in the anthropocene.

[August1991]

On 9/10/2024 at 9:10 PM, eyeball said:

Mearsheimer makes a lot of sense like Gene Roddenberry.

Now we're in the anthropocene.

 

Anthropoecene? Wtf?

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I reckon that you Americans won the cold war - we are free to choose.

 

[eyeball]

2 hours ago, August1991 said:

Anthropoecene?

Yup, that's what I said, anthropocene.

2 hours ago, August1991 said:

I reckon that you Americans won the cold war - we are free to choose.

You seem to think you're the only Canadian around here, why is that?

[August1991]

1 hour ago, eyeball said:

Yup, that's what I said, anthropocene.

You seem to think you're the only Canadian around here, why is that?

This is a Canadian forum.

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We Canadians get along. Since the 18th century, the Swedes avoid war.

Edited September 14, 2024 by August1991

[eyeball]

9 minutes ago, August1991 said:

This is a Canadian forum.

On an American server as Bush-Cheney 2003 always enjoyed telling us.

16 minutes ago, August1991 said:

We Canadians get along.

Yes we do.

[August1991]

Let me explain my point:

we Canadians (Catholic/Protestant/French/English) get along, have avoided civil war - largelybecause we have counterweights.

Yet, we Canadians (mostly men) have gone abroad and died for what we call Canada, this idea.

[eyeball]

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, when the walls fell.

[August1991]

14 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, when the walls fell.

Whatever.

To you Americans, Reagan won. For the Brits, Thatcher won.

For me, the free market won.

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I first travelled to China in 1983. Deng -not Mao- changed the world.

Edited September 14, 2024 by August1991