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Subject: Britain is the most powerful nation in the world...Hmmmm

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Posted by: TwistedDippy666
The UK invented the Harrier Jump Jet which is currently used by the USMC sa one of it's primary jets.
Just thought i'd point out not all of America's forces is self-built.
The same goes for most militaries nowadays.

I agree i just wanted to remind any american extremists that the country isn't as cracked up as it's made out to be.

One thing about America though that was greatly ahead of Britain was the womens suffrage movement where the women gained the vote in america before britain. Although that was largely due to the racism at the time fueling that movement.

Would it be a bit of a reach to state that one of the primary factors leading to the second world war was due to american business in the 1920's?

  • 11.27.2012 12:39 PM PDT

Everything is proceeding as I have forseen.

Well if you go back in time about 100 years the British empire was the largest in the world and it has yet to be surpassed.

Another thing is the size of England- it is comparably small yet holds significant power.

  • 11.27.2012 12:41 PM PDT

Stealth Bombers

Nuff said

  • 11.27.2012 12:43 PM PDT

Fact is without the USA , England would be ruled by Germany. We gave you a navy and tanks and also a huge force of aircraft.

  • 11.27.2012 12:46 PM PDT
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I noticed the post about Manchester United. You said you didn't recognize them and that coke is more recognizable. I think coke is known world wide, but Manchester United is also known world wide. Like you I live in America, I have a class called literature in the media. I had to go around showing a bunch of different logos and see who knew them.

no one did not know what Manchester United was. Even the girls knew what it was because of him. The owner of my Tampa Bay Buccaneers owns them so they are well known here in Florida.

They are also HUGE in Asia.

  • 11.27.2012 12:47 PM PDT
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CALLING RECON, CALLING RECON.

I noticed the post about Manchester United. You said you didn't recognize them and that coke is more recognizable. I think coke is known world wide, but Manchester United is also known world wide. Like you I live in America, I have a class called literature in the media. I had to go around showing a bunch of different logos and see who knew them.

no one did not know what Manchester United was. Even the girls knew what it was because of him. The owner of my Tampa Bay Buccaneers owns them so they are well known here in Florida.

They are also HUGE in Asia.

Manchester what? I've never heard of it. Of course, I'm on the opposite side of the continent.

  • 11.27.2012 12:50 PM PDT

Germans would beg to differ

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-Panthers are the best.
-Haters gonna hate.
-Who Dares Wins
-If your one of my real life friends. STOP GOOGLE-ING ME.
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Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN
Fact is without the USA , England would be ruled by Germany. We gave you a navy and tanks and also a huge force of aircraft.

Fact is without England the USA technically wouldn't exist.
Also that USA was the main reason why the war started anyway.

[Edited on 11.27.2012 12:51 PM PST]

  • 11.27.2012 12:51 PM PDT


Posted by: TwistedDippy666

Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN
Fact is without the USA , England would be ruled by Germany. We gave you a navy and tanks and also a huge force of aircraft.

Fact is without England the USA technically wouldn't exist.
Also that USA was the main reason why the war started anyway.
We would still have the dutch and spanish settlers.

  • 11.27.2012 12:53 PM PDT

Halo 3


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Coca Cola.

If that doesn't establish a foothold into nearly every life on the planet, I defy you to find me something else that does better.
The kit kat?

Hardly.

The logo, the shape of the bottle, the fact that nearly any human capable of speech knows what it is, and if one is being offered, would more than likely accept?

That's impressive. At least to me. But everyone is willing to postulate their own. I think that my suggestion has at least some merit.


Try McDonalds.

  • 11.27.2012 12:54 PM PDT

Anyway, culture-wise, America has definitely still dominated. Look at our awful eating habits and the food that we eat, even Britain is adopting our style of unhealthy eating. Our brands are widely popular along with our celebrities, films, food, songs, etc. America can be found in almost all (ally) countries.

  • 11.27.2012 12:54 PM PDT

-Panthers are the best.
-Haters gonna hate.
-Who Dares Wins
-If your one of my real life friends. STOP GOOGLE-ING ME.
XD


Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN

Posted by: TwistedDippy666

Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN
Fact is without the USA , England would be ruled by Germany. We gave you a navy and tanks and also a huge force of aircraft.

Fact is without England the USA technically wouldn't exist.
Also that USA was the main reason why the war started anyway.
We would still have the dutch and spanish settlers.

Because we all know that the spanish and dutch contributed as much as the British Empire and her navy in colonising america.

  • 11.27.2012 12:55 PM PDT

Halo 3


Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN

Posted by: TwistedDippy666

Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN
Fact is without the USA , England would be ruled by Germany. We gave you a navy and tanks and also a huge force of aircraft.

Fact is without England the USA technically wouldn't exist.
Also that USA was the main reason why the war started anyway.
We would still have the dutch and spanish settlers.


and the French.... Do you even remember the 7 years war? In fact I bet that if it wasn't for the English, North America would be French-speaking.

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Germans would beg to differ
Off topic but they are amazing live.

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  • 11.27.2012 12:56 PM PDT

Don't forget what you did to the Irish and all your other conquered countries. Your not perfect and definetly not the most powerful.

  • 11.27.2012 12:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: lonepaul2441

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'Murica has the #1 Economy AND the strongest military. Your move, Sherlock.
Softpower > Hard power.

People like culture more than military.
Culture doesn't give you power.

And I don't watch any British television. AMC is the shizznizz.

  • 11.27.2012 1:01 PM PDT

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-Haters gonna hate.
-Who Dares Wins
-If your one of my real life friends. STOP GOOGLE-ING ME.
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Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN
Don't forget what you did to the Irish and all your other conquered countries. Your not perfect and definetly not the most powerful.

I never said Britain was perfect, infact Britain is a horrible place to live in my opinion as a Brit.



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Posted by: TwistedDippy666

Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN
Don't forget what you did to the Irish and all your other conquered countries. Your not perfect and definetly not the most powerful.

I never said Britain was perfect, infact Britain is a horrible place to live in my opinion as a Brit.
Military power means little now on the world stage of politics, with the increasing abundance of nukes owned by most of the major countries now invasion is merely not a factor of warfare anymore as retalitation would destroy nearly everything.
Not it's all about the economic power of countries determining their strength. Looked at what happened to both greece and italy economies collapsing due to debt.
Americans $16t of debt doesn't lend itself into stabilising your economy.

Except that we're the most economically powerful nation.

  • 11.27.2012 1:06 PM PDT

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-Haters gonna hate.
-Who Dares Wins
-If your one of my real life friends. STOP GOOGLE-ING ME.
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Posted by: TwistedDippy666

Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN
Don't forget what you did to the Irish and all your other conquered countries. Your not perfect and definetly not the most powerful.

I never said Britain was perfect, infact Britain is a horrible place to live in my opinion as a Brit.
Military power means little now on the world stage of politics, with the increasing abundance of nukes owned by most of the major countries now invasion is merely not a factor of warfare anymore as retalitation would destroy nearly everything.
Not it's all about the economic power of countries determining their strength. Looked at what happened to both greece and italy economies collapsing due to debt.
Americans $16t of debt doesn't lend itself into stabilising your economy.

Except that we're the most economically powerful nation.

Yet you are in an immense amount of debt and seek to ever expand a redundant military asset rather than pursue an increase in economic power.

If crisis occured in Japan and they decided they wanted their money fast it could potentially cripple america.

Look at what happened to Germany in the 1930's. Went from the Golden Years to economic collapse due to america wanting it's money fast due to your crashed stock market from overproduction.


[Edited on 11.27.2012 1:43 PM PST]

  • 11.27.2012 1:10 PM PDT


Posted by: lonepaul2441
As some would say "If you can dominate America, you dominate the world".


Ok. Come at us, bro.

  • 11.27.2012 1:11 PM PDT
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  • 11.27.2012 1:11 PM PDT

Key

Their unemployment rate is dead even with the US.

Their GDP is 1/7 the size of the US.

Their military is 1/7 the size of the US.

We have 13 times the nukes they do.

How...? What...? I don't even....?

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Good for you.

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Posted by: TwistedDippy666

Posted by: Wyzilla

Posted by: TwistedDippy666

Posted by: UNT0T3N GERMAN
Don't forget what you did to the Irish and all your other conquered countries. Your not perfect and definetly not the most powerful.

I never said Britain was perfect, infact Britain is a horrible place to live in my opinion as a Brit.
Military power means little now on the world stage of politics, with the increasing abundance of nukes owned by most of the major countries now invasion is merely not a factor of warfare anymore as retalitation would destroy nearly everything.
Not it's all about the economic power of countries determining their strength. Looked at what happened to both greece and italy economies collapsing due to debt.
Americans $16t of debt doesn't lend itself into stabilising your economy.

Except that we're the most economically powerful nation.

Yet you are in an immense amount of debt and seek to ever expand a redundant military asset rather than pursue an increase in economic power. No country in a large amount of debt will truly be an economically stable country as they have to rely upon other countries to keep them afloat.

If crisis occured in Japan and they decided they wanted their money fast it could potentially cripple america.

Look at what happened to Germany in the 1930's. Went from the Golden Years to economic collapse due to america wanting it's money fast due to your crashed stock market from overproduction.

The very collapse of Germany's economy was due to america's businesses, the very collapse of Germany allowed Hitler to rise to power and was a vital factor in him gaining power.


Good -blam!- god..., 'the hell taught you anything? The modern economies are so globally intertwined that nobody would rush anyone or be stupid enough, as that would cause their economies to collapse as well. This is just a bump within history. We're slowing down and didn't realize it, and kept pushing the throttle. The real problem that America is facing currently is that it's finally realizing that it won the Cold War, and now they're on top, but due to internal ridiculousness (and the Brits think their politicians are nuts), we're suffering and could even fall from this position. For what we're going through now, I put no blame anywhere else besides simply the government, as it's just getting terrible over here with ass-backwardsy that when we should have building up, we're patching up -blam!- with duct tape. We certainly are a global power and will likely remain this way for a decent amount of time, but our democracy is simply starting to stagnate.


TL;DR- If we had some great politicians again, we'd be flying high. But we haven't had a 'great' leader in decades, it's hurting us, and we're also not constantly fighting ourselves with media.

  • 11.27.2012 1:28 PM PDT