sorry man, but now I'am thinking you just trolling me ;) if you honestlyy think that the US society was kinda of "well-balanced" between capitalism and socialism, you must be joking, right? hmm, lets see what would Dr. Martin Luther King say or Rosa Parks? what kind of balance is it? 90/10? Til late 70ies for up to 15% of population USA was basically an slavery system... oh man, in relation to USSR the "positiv effect" of war for US could not end in 45! Because US simply had no damages after the war at all o_O
"С такой формулировкой согласен, и про это я и пишу в своих двух текстах: хилая страна+мощный враг=поражение."
actually this is not the same what i was talking bout ;)
У всякого сложного механизма должны быть системы аварийной защиты - hmm what do you think how such mechanism should look like if the most powerfull people of a state doing such things? killing the president? militant overthrow? do we have such mechanism right now? what will happen if after Putin somebody in rang of president or prime minister or both would come along and tell the world "the truth" about the "murder regime of Putin"?
"Доля госсектора в США больше, чем была в СССР? вы уверены? :)" - no that is why i removed my comment ;)
"Что до Китая, то визит Никсона и пинг-понговая дипломатия были намного раньше переноса производств. Второе стало возможным благодаря первому." yes sure the result need some work before of course, did i said something that declined that?
well this is true and a fact nobody doubts that! my point is exactly what you said :) only that it were both traitors AND a mighty opponent from outside, they toghether did that and succseeded. only one of them could not do it
"Конспирология про то, что США на ближнем востоке сеют хаос довольно распространена, вот только посмотрите что происходит: в результате своих действий они теряют влияние в ключевом регионе мира, а значит, делают хуже себе. Если это осознанно, то в чем смысл?"
We are right now in process so nobody can tell if it is a "обычной некомпетентности" or purpose. It's live on CNN. If they get what they want, we wil speak in 10 years of it like genius strategy of a super power if not the historians will tell us about "weird, unbelievable wrong descisions, that brought a super power to fall".
For me it is just not believable to assume that they are just arrogant, dumb yankies doing what arrogant, dumb yankies do. Of course i can think of ways why they could do it and how they profit of it by the end but you would tell it is a conspiracy while i just trying to understand what is going on
well this is unfair - i did not meant traitors like somebody were paying them for it or something, i meant traitors by the fact of ruining their own country from inside instead of doing what every leader should do, protect and evolve it.
For the US people like Snowden are traitors, but if i.e. Obama comes out and tells everything to the whole world about NSA etc. than it would be legal and still for the most americans he would be a traitor. As Chrutschow came out and told "everything" about Stalin (no matter if its all truth or lies) the way he did, it damaged the soviet world like no nuclear strike could do. It damaged their awarness. No responsible leader of a super power could do it, without knowing that he is destroying the power itself - this is betrayal by definition! Same story with Gorbi later...
hmm ok maybe, maybe not. As China made a deal with USA, USA needed partner, who would produce cheap things for them and take USD for that. But I see maybe it could work for USSR too, nobody will ever know