(02-21-2019 05:44 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (02-21-2019 04:25 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote: (02-21-2019 04:21 PM)JRsec Wrote: (02-21-2019 01:13 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote: If you think about it, the largest fascist state ever to exist is alive and well today, and in certain aspects is thriving, but also has very fragile foundations.
Three rep points for the first one to get the correct answer.
That would depend whether what a state calls itself is, or how it actually functions is, considered to be accurate.
Brazil technically could fit the model. But China, in spite of calling itself communist is actually a fascist state in practice.
But I am tempted to point out that California is headed that way fast!
You were right with China. Congrats!
Technically he made 3 guesses. I guessed China right away
By the way, there's speculation that Mao's right-hand man (and China's Premier from 1949-1976) was also gay:
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-35196824
No, technically I qualified the distinction between what a nation is, and what it claims to be
. California was a jab and a joke.
China's racial policies, which don't get enough coverage, were purity codes taken right out of the Waffen SS guidelines, only converted from Aryan to Chinese. Their acquisitions of new territory have usually been a form of genocide (Cambodia) whether cultural or racial.
They have raised a generation of Chinese young males who have formed a special group prepped to have no empathy for the killing of women, and children along with males. And again it was patterned after the SS.
Their industrial/government/market model is typically fascists and hardly open or free.
IMO, they will be a much larger threat in the millennia than Russia. Neutron weaponry could pose a particular problem with a radiation half life measured in days it makes the use of a weapon of mass destruction a much more viable option.
So far they have been reworking Hitler's model but with obvious and potentially more lethal changes. They are working on weapon R&D before invading anyone per se. They are sidestepping international law with man made accretion as a claim to expand territorial waters. And when they fight a war I promise you they will go out of their way to make sure that either Russia, or the United States will remain neutral. They will try to co-opt India by granting them an equal trade status and sharing a currency and I think they will push through India/Pakistan to expand influence in the direction of the Middle East where there are resources that they need.
How they treat Japan will depend on whether they are hoping for U.S. non-intervention or not. IMO if they cant co-opt India through trade they will have to explore options to move over the top of them into the area they want to access. That's where Russia come into play.
Their industrial raw materials needs and O&G will eventually force them into hostilities. There's your real nuclear threat.