After the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October, I told a friend how it was conveniently a back door into China. If World War 3 broke out, this would be a strategically valuable location for the U.S. It would also give us a near blockade on Russia, considering Alaska and our allies to the west of it. However, Afghanistan’s mountainous terrain is proving it rather difficult for our armed forces to fully occupy the country.
China opted to join the World Trade Organization yesterday. They may have done it because they felt threatened, deciding to join a global community with the hopes of gaining international support against us. It’s safe to say this decision cements the fact that they’re no longer a communist country. Trading with the international community can only mean one thing: they’ve abandoned the isolationist economic policy they once had and traded it (see what I did there?) in for a new one. In a sense they are now our allies, at least economically. Perhaps there won’t be a war after all.
It would be foolish to pick a fight with China and Russia. We don't even know what kind of weapons they have, especially China. They could have the technology to completely incapacitate us, just like Japan was surprised when they found out we had an atomic bomb. War isn't so simple these days; maybe that's a good thing.
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