It seems that European countries are slowly emancipating themselves from the USA.
After Britain earlier, Germany, France and Italy also joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a potential rival to the US controlled World Bank. Others will follow.
That's a serious blow to the US hegemony and it will definitely not be the last. This is nothing less but a reshaping of the geopolitical and financial power infrastructure in process.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0655b342-cc29-11e4-beca-00144feab7de.html#axzz3UhDNKI9c

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No such thing as US hegemony.

You're shooting the wrong big fatso here, China's the danger.

Have you considered working for GHA? Stands for Germany Hates America, I think.

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Even X thinks that myhands irrational hate for America is , well , irrational.

Oh, myhand made another anti-U.S thread? What a surprise.....

No such thing as US hegemony.

hahaha, that was just plain stupid.

China's the danger.

According to the USA the danger currently is: China, Russia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, Pakistan and North Korea. Of course this changes on a day to day basis, depending how independent the current national governments are willing to act.
According to China, Russia, Lebanon, Syria, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, Pakistan and North Korea the danger currently is the USA.

Weird. Anyone spotting a pattern?

Even X thinks that myhands irrational hate for America is , well , irrational.

Since X is smart and well informed, I am pretty sure if he sets his cynism aside he is well aware how rational I am.

Listen guys, I am not breastfeeding you the significance of the current events. I leave it to people like szeweningen to do that explaining for you.
They can tell you what it means when the global financial infrastructre is monopolized by an US oligarchy and how that affects your daily life.

But this monopoly is about to be broken by BRICS. What is new and why this event is so noteworthy, is that European states for once didnt give in to US threats and blackmailing, spearheaded by the UK which is especially surprising and joined in this Chinese endeavour. Perhaps they finally understood that its important for their own national interests to participate in a financial infrastructure that isnt controlled by the USA.
Maybe they woke up from the Ukraine disaster in which they let themselves push in by the USA, we can only speculate.

Be it as it may, with the New Development Bank or the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank US hegemony is flaking. And I am very glad to see that happening. Me and maybe 5 to 6 billion people on the planet.

Thomas gtfu of my threads and go play with model cars. Or watch formula 1, or Nascar or go to school for a change.

hahaha, that was just plain stupid.

Just looked up the meaning of hegemony. I thought it meaned something slightly different. I see you, now.
But US is not the main hegemonious state.

According to the USA the danger currently is: China, Russia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, Pakistan and North Korea. Of course this changes on a day to day basis, depending how independent the current national governments are willing to act.
According to China, Russia, Lebanon, Syria, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, Pakistan and North Korea the danger currently is the USA.

Weird. Anyone spotting a pattern?

China's not necessarily a danger, but it's the most powerful country in the world.

Since X is smart and well informed, I am pretty sure if he sets his cynism aside he is well aware how rational I am.

My opinion is that you have seen some light, but put repeat it in such ways that make you look doltish, like now. You must remember that everyone is a daemon, not just US. Put some more things about not US. China, India, Japan.

Also, yes, the patriots will not be convinced with shock therapy treatments like this.

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Does Thomas even go to school? Although we know the one myhand was raised in "Today we will learn about Lenins contributions to Germany , And Germanys contribution to Marxism."

Barack Obama, Dark Lord of The 'Merican Hegemony, right?

Ostdeutschland>Weißdeutschland

Although we know the one myhand was raised in "Today we will learn about Lenins contributions to Germany

That was wrong again. Lenin was Germany's contribution to the world not the other way around. The German Reich financed him and had him send to Russia to orchestrate a revolution in an enemy country. Much like the USA today.

And Germanys contribution to Marxism.

Since Karl Marx was a German, its a rather big one.

Lenin would have contributed to Germany plenty if it weren't for those pesky Polish in 1920 .

vile Polish*

4/5 POW in Polish hands died, worse rates than the Nazis.

*Polish Polish. Poland is Poland , something no one will ever understand.

to slow to be relevant

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Folk call the Warsaw Pact a satellite state collection. But they often forget about the other side...

" History is written by the victors. "
- Winston Churchill

" In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them. "
-Sun Tzu

It's inevitable myhand. I am sure you have read the book " Lord of the Flies ". Everybody refuses to listen to Piggy, because Piggy annoys them. People refuse to listen to Ralph because he just bosses people around seemingly while doing little work (despite eventually coming to pull his own weight). The system leans 2 ways - Anarchy, or Authoritarianism (expressed by Jack for both, and Ralph in Authoritarianism). Democracy is a failed experiment in mass-scale. It only works in how the Greeks committed it: Cities. Digressing; Jack encourages the boys to have fun and dine and hunt, seemingly much more prosperous than Ralph's wishes.

The masses will never know the truth, because those in power don't want them to. If the masses knew the truth, there wouldn't be any power. If there is no power, then who is to say we don't do whatever we want? Sure, we have a democracy. Great. Except we'd become a modern-day recreation of ancient Greece, or a Feudal Europe. And if we tried to make democracy work on a national basis? It collapses. technocracy is bound to be hacked and fixed, normal vote only counts in Congress ( which ironically is all that counts because the Executive Branch is a farce ) and the entire system feeds on lies.

Granted, that was all very messy and probably didn't come off the right way, so I think I'll just sum up my point for tl;dr or too dumb;didn't want to bother:

The masses wll never have power beyond a city-level. One leader is necessary. There is no other option when you have to lead a people of so many regions, cultures and ethnicity. If you have a multitude of rulers, they squabble, end up in stalemate debates and never get anything done. This is expressed in Lord of the Flies. It is the natural ebb and flow of humanity. Myhand, you're liberalism is in vein and is a farce in a world where the only thing keeping everything from falling apart is the promise that your money is functional and is something.

Thomas gtfu of my threads and go play with model cars. Or watch formula 1, or Nascar or go to school for a change.

1. This is the virtual world, and you can't tell me to do a damn thing.
2. F1 isn't on, for a start it is only one weekends.
3. Nascar is literally the most terrible form of racing ever invented.
4. I posted that while I was at school.
5. Note how persidonas posts at 4am, 8am and 2pm tasmanian time.

I do most of this in school
my school likes laptops:
http://asms.sa.edu.au/

also I got 75% on my major test for the term yesterday so maybe I actually do do some work.
Oh BTW stop trying to do this to the US:

it won't work.
Also you live in Germany, not the US so why do you care so much?

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