August1991 Posted August 24 Report Share Posted August 24 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 ===== About the Middle East and Africa, agree to disagree. ======= 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted August 24 Report Share Posted August 24 Dissolve NATO just as Russia is escalating, its aggression in Europe? Preposterous. Quote Click to learn why Climate Change is caused by HUMANS Michael Hardner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkman Posted August 24 Report Share Posted August 24 Imagine there's no Russia...perhaps August has a magic wand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbie Posted August 24 Report Share Posted August 24 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myata Posted August 24 Report Share Posted August 24 Imaginary world? Easily. Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted August 26 Author Report Share Posted August 26 The World gangsters need a sit-down. It happened in 1815 and 1945. (Versailles 1919 decided nothing.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted August 26 Author Report Share Posted August 26 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? ==== I have been to Crimea, Kiev. I have been to Israel and Jordan. === Ordinary people want diplomats to get along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted August 26 Author Report Share Posted August 26 Looking back, in the 1910s, the world powers (dlplomats, politicians) could have avoided the disaster of Summer 1914. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted August 31 Author Report Share Posted August 31 I was expecting a response/post. ====== 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted September 2 Author Report Share Posted September 2 We are living in a vacuum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted September 5 Author Report Share Posted September 5 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted September 7 Author Report Share Posted September 7 Nationalism? Define it. Language? Religion? What tattoos a person has? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted September 11 Author Report Share Posted September 11 Unlike Mearsheimer, I am very optimistic. ===== 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted September 11 Report Share Posted September 11 Mearsheimer makes a lot of sense like Gene Roddenberry. Now we're in the anthropocene. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted September 13 Author Report Share Posted September 13 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? ===== I reckon that you Americans won the cold war - we are free to choose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted September 14 Report Share Posted September 14 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? Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted September 14 Author Report Share Posted September 14 (edited) 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. ==== We Canadians get along. Since the 18th century, the Swedes avoid war. Edited September 14 by August1991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted September 14 Report Share Posted September 14 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. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted September 14 Author Report Share Posted September 14 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted September 14 Report Share Posted September 14 Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, when the walls fell. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted September 14 Author Report Share Posted September 14 (edited) 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. ===== I first travelled to China in 1983. Deng -not Mao- changed the world. Edited September 14 by August1991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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