Bert
Sr. Member
- Reaction score
- 4
- Points
- 230
To balance it a bit, every country in the world has its own agenda. The UN is not so much US
dominated as each country wheels and deals to get a suitable place or result. The US and
many other countries figure prominantly in the back rooms of the UN. Yes the US watches
and manipulates the world. Does not Russia, Germany, China, and other countries in their
respective regions also control and manipulate events?
Heres a classic example. Remember a few years back when the US Orion surveillance aircraft
struck a chinese fighter and was forced to land on a chinese air force base?
I worked for a company employing many chinese and they were furious at the US for challenging
chinese airspace, spying from "international waters", acquiring intelligence on chinese military
responsiveness, being agressive, and no business being out there so close to chinese territory.
Listening to their point of view from their point of view made sense given their history over
6,000 years. The chinese have always either been raided and abused by outside forces
or by themselves.
The USA has memories of the Civil War, WW1, and particularily WW2. Remember Pearl Harbour
and how the Japanese silently devastated the American Pacific Fleet? The German aggression
in WW2 and the Americans knew it wouldn't stop in just Europe. Note the recent attack on the
twin towers. The USA has history too that affects their outlook on the world. From the
American perspective, taking surveillance of China is understandable.
Both the USA and China spy on eachother. Dispite any point of view, they both do it and thats a
fact. Another fact is Germany sells armaments to Israel and Eqypt as well as a host of countries
who are at odds with one another. Not to pick on Germany, yet often the US is critized for selling
armaments but other countries escape the same "deserving" critizism.
There are many opinions yet the bigger picuture suggests there are few countries that can take the
moral high ground.
dominated as each country wheels and deals to get a suitable place or result. The US and
many other countries figure prominantly in the back rooms of the UN. Yes the US watches
and manipulates the world. Does not Russia, Germany, China, and other countries in their
respective regions also control and manipulate events?
Heres a classic example. Remember a few years back when the US Orion surveillance aircraft
struck a chinese fighter and was forced to land on a chinese air force base?
I worked for a company employing many chinese and they were furious at the US for challenging
chinese airspace, spying from "international waters", acquiring intelligence on chinese military
responsiveness, being agressive, and no business being out there so close to chinese territory.
Listening to their point of view from their point of view made sense given their history over
6,000 years. The chinese have always either been raided and abused by outside forces
or by themselves.
The USA has memories of the Civil War, WW1, and particularily WW2. Remember Pearl Harbour
and how the Japanese silently devastated the American Pacific Fleet? The German aggression
in WW2 and the Americans knew it wouldn't stop in just Europe. Note the recent attack on the
twin towers. The USA has history too that affects their outlook on the world. From the
American perspective, taking surveillance of China is understandable.
Both the USA and China spy on eachother. Dispite any point of view, they both do it and thats a
fact. Another fact is Germany sells armaments to Israel and Eqypt as well as a host of countries
who are at odds with one another. Not to pick on Germany, yet often the US is critized for selling
armaments but other countries escape the same "deserving" critizism.
There are many opinions yet the bigger picuture suggests there are few countries that can take the
moral high ground.