(September 11, 2013 at 8:12 pm)Chuck Wrote:(September 11, 2013 at 7:55 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: China interveined militarily in each of it`s neighbouring countries between 1950 and 1980.
Uh, no. Of all countries in the world China has the most land neigbhors, 16 in total. Yet it only intervened militarily in 3 of them (5 if you count tibet and Taiwan as separate countries, in which case china had 18 neighbors) a total of 5 time (9 times if you count tibet and Taiwan) between 1950 and 1980.
United States border only 2 countries, yet in the same period, United States intervened militarily in 36 different countries a total of 48 times, amounting to more than 1 different foreign military interventions a year.
I think as far as peace time military intervention in recognized modern foreign nation states go, United States remain the all time champion in both total number of countries intervened in and annual rate of intervention.
This is precisely the kind of bullshit that I'd like to see the US engage in less, not more. That the Russians embarrassed us by achieving a diplomatic solution demonstrates that we're less capable of diplomacy than wielding our military like a bloody fucking meat axe.