He is real unpatriotic. He pointed out McCain on television saying shit like "We do not support you" and "If china attacked, we would lose." I showed him this. "Amount of Troops (total): United States: 2,938,213 Error loading PDF document. No source. I'll look for another one. China: 7,024,000 Active Troops: United States: 1,426,713* (Army 37.0%, Marine 13%, Navy 24%, Air Force 23%, Coast Guard 3%) China: 2,255,000* (army 71.0%, navy 11.3%, air force 17.7%). *Source is identical to source used for total number of troops. We can already see that China probably spends a huge amount of money on their army. In the 21st century, there isn't a need for an overly large army such as China's. Countries with strong militaries need to have a strong navy and airforce. Military Expenditures: United States: $583,283,000,000 China: $59,000,000,000* *Some say China could be spending three times as much. Let's see how much more we spend on our military. 583 283 000 000 / 59 000 000 000 = 9.88615254 We spend 10 times as much on our military, and even at China's highest estimated spending, we spend 5 times as much. Remember that since China has a considerably larger amount of troops, they spend a lot less money on each troop than the United States does. The figures do not include money spent on purchased weapons or development and research. Although I don't believe numbers are of as much importance as people seem to think, remember that Germany was absolutely tearing through the Soviet Union during WWII, which had millions more troops than any other military at the time. Germany only ended up loosing because of the prolonged war, the harsh soviet winter, and because it had to fight a war on two fronts. (east and west) This was back when it was harder to keep troops healthy, well fed, properly equipped, etc.. And since the United States seems to spend more money on all these things, all while having more advanced technological abilities, I'm fairly certain that we would defeat China in a military confrontation. People have made the argument that we rely too much on China, and if we stopped trading with them, our economy would falter. Please note that this goes both ways, and China heavily relies on us as well. Then people have made the argument that China has too many people. We sent 300,000 troops into Iraq, but still didn't have enough to take it over. (by defeating groups of terrorists and having enough troops to station at the spot to make sure another takeover doesn't occur) It's obvious that we have nowhere near enough troops to invade every single part of China. That isn't what we would do. I'm not a military expert, but I'm fairly certain we would rely heavily on our Air-Force, while sending troops into a concentrated part of China." He gets all mad and says "Well no one would fight for this country, we are all spoiled and lazy" and cites me as an example. I cite that China has to mandate a law to prevent people from calling into work for playing World of Warcraft. I say "everyone is lazy, especially Europeans" (average work is about 6 hour shifts". So he gets mad, starts hitting himself and says we are not a super power anymore and something about Russia wanting to attack us now. Really...Russia? The fuck is wrong with him.
Your brother on crack? China isnt going to have enough food to feed its people in the next year or so, if things dont change, the Germans ran over Russia because they may have had millions of more troops, but they only had 12 guns, total.... , If it wasnt for the winter Russia would have gotten pimped out too. But that was Hitlers fault for trying to fight two wars at once. Russia attacking us would be about the smartest thing they could do. The way things are today, if we go to your country and kill people we will give you trillions of dollars for reconstruction, that would really help them out.
