Replies to post #5182 on Nothing But Politics

[sylvester80]

>>>Our defense budget is by far the largest of any single country

I think it's the largest of the next 20 some countries... combined.

[CoalTrain]

The Russians started joint arms manufacturing with China not long after the Berlin wall came down if I am not mistaken. India has been invited to join the SCO and partake in joint arms manufacturing as of a few years ago. Just a year ago they were on the fence. Looks like the Bushies diplomatic insanity has pushed them towards Russia. Here is a search engine result on the SCO

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sco+russia&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&cop=mss&tab=

Then as you point out it seems that Saudi money is flowing into the fray...

#msg-2007709

Lets see....if we decide to militarily take on the Entire Arab world, the Russians, the Chinese, India and Korea
( which became a nuclear power due to GWB´s neglect While chasing fantasies in Iraq ) what are our chances of winning? MAybe if we pull out of Iraq and divide those resources evenly amongst all of the above we could get the job done?

The diplomatic insanity continues.

CT