"Europe is old, the world's most tourist-friendly museum piece."Let me know when the garage sale begins. European junk should have a good resale value in those hot Asian markets.
"America needs to remain...working with Europe, no matter how annoying that is."It's not a matter of annoyance. It's a matter of drain--how much propping up we're willing to to and is it worth it--whether we're willing to save them yet again or just shrug as they go down the drain into Islamic theocracy.
We saved them from mutual destruction We saved them from Naziism. We saved them from communism. Is it worth it to save them yet again?
(Speaking of garage sale, maybe we'd better pick up the European nukes as soon as we can. No need to leave them just sitting there when the Muslims take over.)
"If we offend Europe..."...so what? We offend Europe merely by existing. They can't scrape together the energy or the will to survive. They're going to do something about the offensiveness of the U.S.?
"Taiwan could be an occasion for a war."Okay. Why not tell the Taiwanese to come over here to America? Make them U.S. citizens. They're strongly anti-communist. Then China can have Taiwan. This will also avoid a Fall-of-Saigon scenario.
"India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed adversaries."This is bad, but it does keep India in strong alliance with the U.S.
"China could break up into feuding fiefdoms."Anything's possible, but this is highly unlikely.
"Then, there's the psycho-state of North Korea."Essentially a Chinese puppet. Not likely to do anything serious as long as China's kept happy.
""Then, there's the psycho-state of North Korea."
Essentially a Chinese puppet. Not likely to do anything serious as long as China's kept happy."
Excellent observation. Not many people seem to understand this apparently obvious fact.