Where would the world be without the USA?

bertsmobile1

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I have a feeling the threat of the U.S having nuclear weapons, as well as Israel possibly having them is keeping China & Russia wary.... although China also has us about right where they want us...
I have a feeling the threat of the U.S having nuclear weapons, as well as Israel possibly having them is keeping China & Russia wary.... although China also has us about right where they want us...
It was the nuclear arms race that was the catalyst for the collapse of the USSR.
The cost of making them is astronomical so to always have to keep making them so you have at least one more than your enemy plus some sort of bunker system and some sort of defence / intercept mechanism so you have to dedicate a massive amount of money every day to the arms race.
Both leaders realized it was sending their countries broke , the West just did not realize how broke the USSR actually was .

This is why China only has a small nuclear arsenal , just enough to be a threat to enough US / Korean / Japanese / German / French & even insignificant Australians to make sure no one will lob one at them . Chinese politicans are a lot smarter than Western politicans who like to play the bigger gun than you hand in diplomacy.
They used a far more powerful weapon, GREED to destroy their enemies , Ford can't make cars cause China can't supply the computer chips that the USA could make but Ford bought from China because they were 0.01¢ cheaper . Same story with everything electrical .
 

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I like the simple pleasures...like butter in my a$$ and lollipops in my mouth.

Whoever invented porn... the Germans have taken it to another level. You can't unsee that stuff.
 

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To be qualified to answer this question, you have to understand that the American state is not the same thing as America.
It's obvious that the world would be much poorer if not for the ambition and genius of American entrepreneurs. But it would be much better off without the American state, at least in its current incarnation.
It was a fantasy to believe that a written Constitution could ever contain it. The useless loudmouths in D.C., most of whom have never in their lives produced anything that people would voluntarily pay their own money for, do whatever they want – because general welfare and interstate commerce.
And the people put on their masks and obey.
 

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No internet
No porn industry
No Snapper mowers
No crappy cars and trucks
No TV's
No good music
No computers - which later lead to cell phones
No microwave ovens

many many more

Probably speaking german.
 

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No ignorant ilinformed people with a massive over inflated ideas about their own supremesy unwilling to believe that there are other people on the planet with a functioning brain and claiming they own everything while being too bone lazy to actually check anything except with other Americans .

1) Internet, well that is tricky because it was a world wide collaboration .
Americans will tell everyone that the internet evolved from ARPNET, but ARPNET was just a private email network and in reality it goes back to technologies the USA got from Germany as reptreations.
What makes the INTERNET the internet is TCP/IP and that came fro CERN in Switzerland

2) Porn was around in the Greek & Roman times, if not before and is clearly depicted in some of the pottery which for reasons of the "Fake" modesty is hidden in the basements of museums & universities for use by scholars only
IF you want some porn in literature search for the works of the Persian poet Suffi or perhaps the Kama Sutra

3) ?

4) The UK & soviets were making crappy vehicles long before the USAthey just don't pretend that they are the best on the planet.

5) TV was first introduced back in 1840 by Scottish & German scientists wanting to share the results of laboratory experiments with each other.
In 1926 an Australian back yard inventor broadcast the Melbourne cup ( horse race ) from Flemington Melbourne to Ballarat Victoria then lost interest and went into rocketry .

6) a matter of taste

7) again tricky one.
Most objective historians would put the origin at the Bletchly Park WWII research station.
Now the personal computer can definately be attributed to Apple .

8) an Australian invention .
Because the telephone system in Aust was originally government owned , every Australian was deemed to have equal rights to a telephone . ( never happened in the USA )
Because Australia is the same land masa as continental USA we had to be able to send telephone signals over massive distances .
But because of the geography & small population running wires was not an option so we perfected the use of microwave radio transmission for telephones which at a latter date sold to Bell Industries
At one time Aust had over 90% of the microwave patients world wide .
The technicians working on the towers noticed that the eggs in the nests of birds in & around the towers were all cooked .
The CSIRO ( government research facility ) investigated and invented the microwave oven.
Now at that time we had an unbelievably conservative government and part of that government policy was anything the government developed that had commercial potential to make a profit must be sold to private enterprise. No Australia company wanted it ( or could afford it ) so GE bought the technology & release the domestic microwave oven. ( same story with Rank Xeros & copiers )

And Cable TV was also an Australian invention ( developement would be more appropriate ) and again at one time he held over 80% of the world wide patients for the use of optical fibre for communications. The longest fibre was the Sydney Melbourne line and that was also the first one to send TV signals down a fibre cable thus inventing ( if you like ) cable TV and for the same reason as above the technology was again sold off.
Up until 2015 Australia had the largest optical fibre network on the planet and had the government appointed board members of the now privatised telephone company ( Telstra ) back in 2000 not vetoed the plan to take the fibre network to each house hold we would have had the worlds first all fibre network on the planet .

All the USA really is happens to be the largest single private market on the planet which means it benefits from the mass effect so any new technology introduced can get massive market penetration very quickly which results in massive profits which in turn causes massive product development very quickly as every Tom Dick & Harry attempts to catch the cash train .
Oh and the Wi-Fi you use to connect your computer, phone,TV etc to your fibre modem & the WWW, you guessed it another Aussie invention / development .
Well,Ive always liked The Land Down Under,(even Vegemite!) Now I know I have good reason(s) to do so!! Thanks,Bert,for sharing those facts!
 

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I've always thought I would like to visit Australia, then I remember all the snakes they have. No thanks! Be nice to lay on the beach though.
 

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You know they have green cards after ONE DAY being at our border right? They wait till nighttime and all the cameras are gone to bus them out. This happens every day non stop.

What about the covid illegals that don't go to a border crossing station? Guess all we can do now we are on Joe Biden's watch is say hi to your new neighbors. Or is it o'la?

We have parts of town in OKC where the businesses and shops are, well let's just say I feel like I need my passport to drive down certain parts of town. Feels like I crossed the border.

I don't mind them coming over. Just do it legally. There are no good jobs here anymore. Taxes everywhere and on everything you own. Some you pay taxes on multiple times. I don't see the draw to come here?????
The word is hola'.. :)
 

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I've always thought I would like to visit Australia, then I remember all the snakes they have. No thanks! Be nice to lay on the beach though.
Australia does have some dangerous creatures,but then so does the more dangerous New York city! Personally,I'd feel safer with the snakes of Oz.
 

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When did everyone else start becoming first, used to be for Americans, that they came first, & then help other countries.
American can't make a tiny computer chip for these new vehicles. And our medicines should be made here too, & I'm sure sure other stuff should be made here in the USA as well.
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Intel, which is in the USA and were my neighbors in Folsom, California, makes chips... There must be a lot of political crapola that is also in the mix to probably create more of a "demand" so the price/s can be artificially raised ??
 
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