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It's one of the few things that is preventing more wars. Get rid of the UN, you'll have the planet start looking like Strangereal with its world wars every decade.

While realpolitik-ish, it isn't taking into account this little thing we call precedent. Geopolitics is built upon precedent (alongside various treaties and their precedents), so you must take into account what sort of precedent you are willing to make because eventually it'll be used against...

No, it wouldn't because their (especially their leadership's) hatred of the West -and the US in particular- is pretty impressive... and only in the sort of situation where everyone has to work together or die would Russia work with the West. Not really, given their leadership is nostalgic, and...

The thing is, it all goes down to money and if the States comply. Given that the rich have historically gone 'fuck you, I'm hoarding cash' leading to interesting bits of history including Justinian the Great of the East Roman (aka Byzantine) Empire allowing his tax collectors to torture and...

That really isn't the case when you get into geopolitics. China would be considered mentally disturbed in a cultural and collective psychology sense, but that is due to just how much bloody baggage it has. We're talking about one of the top three continuous cultures of the planet here, and that...

China is, despite everything, a mostly-sane player with oodles of baggage on the world stage right now. The real problem is Putin and his associates in Russia who are more than nostalgic for the return of the 'glory days of the USSR' and are more than willing to basically turn the world to ashes...

The thing is that while 2% GDP isn't much on paper, politically its significant, especially after a Europe that literally bled itself white within half a century. A lot of the money that would be put into the 2% GDP military budget was used to... paradoxically... improve the economy. It turns...