"Lebensraum in Africa" was one of his vague long term plans after he tied up a few loose ends in Europe.
The most interesting part was the idea for a big Afrikaner state......Draka, anyone? :D
And these thoughts have surely occurred to the Chinese leadership, but their thinking is prolly summin like:
#1 - "Status Quo works for *us*. Ain't broke, don't fix it."
#2 - "How 'controlled' can any collapse be in a militarized nation of 25 million people?"
#3 - "If mass unrest, political...
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Yeah, I agree a "new" DPRK run by a docile Beijing puppet is the likely ultimate outcome of a war started by North Korea for some unfathomable reason. If the U.S was really stupid enough to invade, they'd be stupid enough to walk up to the border, start building permanent...
ASB, dem New American Century Boyz had their hearts set on Iraq for a decade. Scary looking evil dictator, pariah state, WMD history, military that couldn't fight back, tons of oil, and huge potential for development (on paper at least). It was the perfect place for a demonstration of...
All these scenarios seem to operate on the assumption that the land is...........depopulated. Whether that's because of radiation, anthrax, or Generalplan Ost, it's just another reason to NOT want a Jewish nation there.
This is Teddy f'n Roosevelt we're talking about here. He'd race towards WW1, crush Germany before Lenin can do anything, boom, 20th Century saved.
Teddy Roosevelt is OTL Ameriwank
That's how Bremer defends his most widely criticized decision to this day - there was barely any army left, ergo the "disbanding" was academic and its effects are overrated. It's a fair enough argument.
But....meh. I'm inclined to believe that Bremer was a fuckup and incompetent hack, so I...
>land you used to own two thousand years ago
Bruh. What part of "Holy Land" don't you understand lol. They knew the Arabs were there and they definitely knew they weren't going to magically go away.
2004? I thought it was common knowledge that we screwed this up in late 2001.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/15/how-bin-laden-escaped-in-2001-the-lessons-of-tora-bora.html
SMH
Within a year? This was about 9 weeks later.
Fix this, and the country goes APESHIT dwarfing the...
What other piece of earth is going to have the extremely powerful "destiny fulfilled" emotional appeal of The Holy Land? East Prussia? Crimea? C'mon. Those aren't the locations of an ancient Jewish kingdom. I agree that it's condescending. As if you could be like "hey, sorry about the...
Rumsfeld worshiped (and ultimately perished) at the altar of smaller, "smarter" militaries. You need some semblance of a "Hearts & Minds" strategy to make that feasible.
Cheney..............well if nothing else you're getting a MASSIVE expansion of the torture system............and he...
Hey, it couldn't hurt right? No Zionist trained sharks attacking innocent Egyptian beach-goers! :D
If nothing else, depriving corrupt governments of a convenient regional scapegoat would have an effect.
The Saudis are recognized as arguably the worst tyranny outside of North Korea.....but the rest of the world has a Gentlemen's Agreement to whistle past this particular graveyard, because nobody has the stones to see what's behind Door #2.
I suppose an Israeli-Saudi nuclear exchange would be...
The 48 states as in OTL? Man, that's GOTTA be ASB in a country with this kind of culture, history, and society. Like, really lol. I hope. :(
An "enclave" type scenario like CaliBoy mentioned? Ah, well that's another story. Someone laid out a lovely scenario for this happening in Utah during...