World War III

[Walks_in_islam]

Originally Posted by shazeep

well, once you buy 'manifest destiny' for the native americans...

Times change. Right? LOL

Notice another few miles were "annexed" last year. Nice opportunity to expand under the guise of "self-defense".

[shazeep]

yup...and, closer to home, manifest destiny seems to be alive and well, too; i guess the Cherokee nation is sitting on a lot of coal...

[Esaias]

Whenever the peoples get uppity, governments give them wars as a distractiin. When economies go down the drain, war is usually the result. When resources become "scarce", wars happen.

WW2 never ended, we're just in the latest phase.

[Michael The Disciple]

Dont we have to defend Saudi Arabia? What was the deal about the "petrodollar" all about? Was that just for OUR BENEFIT? We owe them NOTHING?

[shazeep]

i think Yemen is just another proxy war; wwiii is most likely to be described here
http://new.euro-med.dk/20141215-puti...inevitable.php

[n david]

Originally Posted by shazeep

i think Yemen is just another proxy war; wwiii is most likely to be described here
http://new.euro-med.dk/20141215-puti...inevitable.php

Shazy, your posts have made me read more about the central banks and financial junk going on. I hate you. (Not really, but yes) I still don't believe a lot of your conspiracy theories, but I do believe these Central Banks and junk have caused wars and will cause more wars in the future.

While this is a bit different because of the CBR and everything, Iraq was put into a corner by Kuwait, the UAE and OPEC which led to them to military action and invading Kuwait back in 1990.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Esaias

WW2 never ended, we're just in the latest phase.

I don't understand.

What do you mean WW2 never ended?

[Walks_in_islam]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Dont we have to defend Saudi Arabia? What was the deal about the "petrodollar" all about? Was that just for OUR BENEFIT? We owe them NOTHING?

We do now, unless we want them to dump their bond holdings and jolt both the banks and the markets.

A couple of point increase in interest rates would just about guarantee a default. Right now interest is 7% of the budget and at these rates that number could quickly eat into revenue. Once we borrow to pay interest, we're done. Bad times.

With that said we owe just about everyone else too. We did not beat the USSR militarily, we beat them economically. Which in my view was worse. Now we are very vulnerable to the same thing. So speaking of owing or not owing really isn't our luxury anymore.

[shazeep]

hmm; i just assumed KSA was debt-free.

[Aquila]

I think that we are on the brink of a massive war involving the extremists in the Middle East, Iran, Russia, the Ukraine, China, and a European Union that is determined to pull out the stops to end any religious movement it deems hostile, including biblical Christianity.