BRIC is coming! Brazil, Russia, India, and China have formed a bloc to "challenge" the US's superpower status.
No no, they aren't warming up the tanks and arming the missles. This is about economic and diplomatic clout. Lots of it is posturing and bluffing. But, they also have some points.
The US has used up much of its power to tell the world what to do in the last 8 years. Heck, the last 12 as I'm not going to let Clinton off the hook.
Our brilliant plan of spend spend spend spend spend all while borrowing from China (they don't LIKE us people, they like our MONEY!) is going to come back to bite us in the butt.
Americans don't seem to realize the rest of the world blames us for the current economic crisis. Was it all our fault? Oh heck no! European banks were up to their eyeballs in it. But, it did start with our housing bubble and low credit.
Just keep this in mind people: The US has been mortgaging its world power status to buy shiny things. We are a paper tiger, or quickly becoming one. Until we clean up our own house more, well, don't expect to be the biggest kid in the school yard all the time anymore.
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Conservatives should be pretty happy about ceding power to these countries. Ok, maybe not Brazil.
Ignoring them: Russia has the strong anti-terrorist, national defense angle down. China is teaching the world how rampant capitalism and industrialization is done (pesky human rights just get in the way). Not only that, but their internal monitoring systems put The Patriot Act to shame. And India is like a capitalist success story. Sure there are slums, but the middle class is growing fast! I heard Wal-Mart just moved in, and they're getting cheap cars that could turn their urban area into a Los Angeles-esque paved wonderland! Nothing like a billion more car owners pumping out fumes to really eek that obnoxious Al Gore.
None of those 3 countries are too worried about this whole human-caused-climate-change brouhaha. They should elect Cheney to lead them...well...as long as they drop Brazil first.
Sorry for the thick sarcasm and snark. I'm tired. ;-)
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