Wacky :tinfoil:
http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2009/08/power-china-world-japan-poland
Finally Anime can be destroyed for good.
I'll trade Poland and a player to be named later for Japan.
That's so old I think it was ever reported on the old forum
You draw all those stupid maps that have Britain owning Indonesia and splitting Brazil with Uruguay and you call THIS whacky?
The author needs a bit more focus.
EDIT: Well thanks Tim. That was truly a waste of time.
Quote from: Jaron on August 29, 2009, 03:39:03 PM
You draw all those stupid maps that have Britain owning Indonesia and splitting Brazil with Uruguay and you call THIS whacky?
Britain occupied the Dutch East Indies during the Napoleonic Wars I believe.
I've never done the latter.
I had a topic on this guy either on the old forum or on this forum. The book was mentioned on Fareed Zakaria GPS.
"Is the European Union likely to become more or less significant in the future?
It is not clear to me what the European Union is. It is certainly nothing akin to a multi-national state, as sovereignty is genuinely in the hands of the national governments. It seems to be an attempt to have the benefits of scale without the abandonment of sovereignty. It reminds me of the United States in 1861 when the southern states argued that sovereignty rested with the states, and that membership in the federal union was an elective matter; that even as members, they were free to pursue their own independent policies. There was a conference held on this at Gettysburg in 1863 that ultimately settled the question. There is no force in Europe prepared to wage war to preserve the European Union, or to enforce the policies of the central government. Thus, Europe is a cooperative framework that individual states may ignore or withdraw from at will. I doubt that it will become more than this because of underlying mistrust among the nations and an unwillingness of the nations to subordinate their interests to the Union. It may stay where it is or decline. I find it difficult to imagine it growing stronger."
http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2009/08/united-states-power-china
Quote from: Siege on August 29, 2009, 11:33:30 PM
http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2009/08/united-states-power-china
Interesting take on global positions of nations, and projections for the future.
Is that from the Russian guy who expects US to split into six pieces in a year from now?
Quote from: DGuller on August 31, 2009, 09:36:33 AM
Is that from the Russian guy who expects US to split into six pieces in a year from now?
Q&A: George Friedman
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Quote from: DGuller on August 31, 2009, 09:36:33 AM
Is that from the Russian guy who expects US to split into six pieces in a year from now?
Nope, this guy expects Russia to be a nonentity.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 31, 2009, 09:45:57 AM
Quote from: DGuller on August 31, 2009, 09:36:33 AM
Is that from the Russian guy who expects US to split into six pieces in a year from now?
Nope, this guy expects Russia to be a nonentity.
Hmm, I like where he's going. He may have a good point after all.
500 years from now, Uruguay will be the most powerful nation in the world.
Well, I suppose it's not impossible. Poland will always be an irrelevancy, but Japan could be troublesome as the war generation dies off, particularily once their financial apocalypse strikes in the next five or ten years.