Albeit, there were large periods of time where they were either a) isolationist or b) in one or more civil wars

Unequal treaties for example

China hasn't been a world power for a long time

China might have been doing better about 600 years ago

Yes, they HAVE been a world power in the past

the Han Dynasty, for example, was comparable to Rome in both size and power

But recently by which i mean from now to about 100-200 years ago they haven't been a world power or even really close

The thing with europe is, it never was world power as an entity

individual european _states_ were

but not europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v47eDFFXlM

my point being in the cyclical natire of history 200 years is not that much

the pace of at which xx century accelerated these cycles might lead to believe it is considering we went from horses to space in half a century

seeing my own country devolve into anarchy in a month and seeing some of the international institutions disregard whats going on, makes you question the global status quo going forward

I feel the US doesn’t realize how insidious the left is and how much they are willing to play the long game

russia was in the right in those hostage scenarios

the theatre had a long hallway that the cops would have to go through

and the place was rigged to explode

it would have been a long firefight

and lead to more deaths

best way to deal with terrorists is to just kill them

ive been having a discussion last month, due to what has happened here, without rule of law there’s no expectation of human rights, even criminals expect to enjoy human rights, unless they threaten rule of law

yeah pretty much

philippines are a good example of that

they execute people who are involved in drug trafficking without a trial

without rule of law the government acts like a mafia

and they only go after people that they don't like or that they consider a problem

in our case they’ve accused police of “brutality “ and they launched a constitutional case against the president

its all bullshit

but rule of law has been broken

now cotizens are taking the law in their own hands

there are neighborhoods where there are no services left

and no police

gangs are taking ober

who looks for human rights then?

and this happened in 4 weeks

probably 20 years in the making , but the left plays a dangerous game, look at what’s beeing tought in universities

and look for those people to get to high schools

Throwing drug dealers from a heilcopter. I dont see the problem

i mean

here theres an issue with pensions