Alex Castellanos: Tonight You Saw the First Hint of a President Who Could Be a One Termer

You think China is another England?!? That they would just sit and watch everything crumble around them?

I'm saying that even though they have a whole lot of problems that's a far stretch from saying they are going to conquer half of Asia. Malthusian appraisals of our "enemies" are usually wrong. And historical comparisons to empires past simply do not apply now. All nations have a vested interested in keeping G20 economies afloat. If China fell apart, so would the United States. Do you think we're just going to fall apart because of China?

No but THEY may fall apart because of the US. We live in a world that is a house of cards. China was, is and will be a world apart from our western civilization. Wisely they are grabbing all they like and can use of it but they are not different from what they were.

China was called All Under Heaven by the Chinese. They still think so. It is not so much that they want to conquer the world as that they want to have a large degree of control over it. But if things get really bad...

If we lived in a world that was a "house of cards," the internet would not be working as bank after bank would have become insolvent and utilities companies packed it up and shut down. Prisons would close and convicts would be raping your children. So no, we don't exactly live in a world that is a "house of cards." We live in a world with trillions of dollars in liquidity. Despite recent corruption, the global financial system will endure. It will take time, but we've weathered far worse.

It IS a house of cards and if Dubia and then Obama had decided NOT to bailout anybody or anything you would see it clearly.

And as for prisons...in California they are talking of closing prisons and releasing tens of thousands of inmates because the conditions are "cruel and unusual" and the state is running out of money.

And 11 of those trillions and half the stock market's value have disappeared. If Obama sneezes it could get a LOT worse. It is a house of cards.

In California they are talking about releasing people who are on drug possession (particularly marijuana) offenses. Which is a good thing given the fact that a rapist can be given parole while some guy who had an ounce of dope is still sleeping in the bunk below him.
I highly advise you to read more history books. As to the house of cards thing, I advise you to read books about economics, the Great Depression, and so on. Thanks.