When do you think Obama's admin will have boots on the ground in Iran/China/Russia?

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JEDIYoda

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I think it will be when the Ahmadinejahd leaves office. When do you think it will be?

Obama won't strike Iran right now for three reasons I think:

he likes to see Netanyahu pissed and to use the situation to his advantage.

the next leader of Iran will be a true Persian (not a "global citizen" like Obama is) who won't be as smart as Ahmadinjahd is.

the debt/currency/trade war against China needs a definite turning point, and America isn't quite there... yet.

After the Hot War comes to a truce, I personally think Russia will become a confederation and that Rand Paul will be the first Constitutional Monarch of a fully unified American State. China will become the next superpower, but part of the treaty will be that they not attack America in return for the expendables, as of which I may be one... I hope I will not be expendable, because I wouldn't mind for Rand Paul to be a monarch because at least the warfare state would be gone and there would be some order (at least for a time)... he'll succeed where Washington failed.

We might already have American made boots on the ground in those places......sort of depends on who made the boots.....
 

Anarchist420

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We might already have American made boots on the ground in those places......sort of depends on who made the boots.....
That's true... America is manufacturing way too much, or at least too much is being manufactured through subsidies, bailouts, and credit dumped into the manufacturing sector by the Fed since 2009.

I'm thinking that once America crashes China's manufacturing (which they will if China doesn't have enough long lasting efficient trade partners and if they don't come up with original solutions to dealing with the big bully, the U.S. govt), then America could be ruined if someone (like a restored Japan or Korea) isn't willing to manufacture for them. One thing that may make China not a threat is the fact that they're typically not original... they haven't been able to change easily, on their own, against other peoples.

It will be wise to buy up some German goods soon given the crisis in the E.U., that's all I know.

French manufactured goods being dumped all over the world won't happen because Le Pen lost the election.:(

All of that said, I think the future of good, efficient, original, inexpensive, creative manufacturing may be in Korea although I wish it didn't have to be managed from the top down... that will suck because it will be dominated by America that way (Americans are more domineering than Koreans, a rule with few exceptions). Chinese goods are about to get way too expensive, at least for Americans if not for civilization.