Post by KidCharlemagne on Jan 14, 2006 21:23:15 GMT -5
In regards to the United Nations, I think that, used properly, it could provide an excellant break on the cycle of one superpower being challenged violently by another and so on.
For example, the Spanish Empire and the Catholic hemogeny in the meditteranean was challenged by the Protestant trading powers of England and Holland, and the centralised absolutism of France in the 1600s and 1700s, with the UK rising as the dominant power in the 1800s. Britain, however, found itself superceded by the industrial-military complexes of Germany, the US and later the Soviet Union. America, of course, is now the dominant power in the world.
So now we can see challenges from elsewhere to American power. China is always mentioned, along with India, because of its population. The middle east could be a potential sticking point here, with wrangling over oil supplies already beginning.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4121830.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4191683.stm
So this is where the UN could be useful in arbitrating between global superpowers to ensure this cycle is broken.
In regards to the apocalypse, I agree, Shypsychologyguy, that the world has only a few decades left, but for quite different reasons
www.oilcrisis.com/
For example, the Spanish Empire and the Catholic hemogeny in the meditteranean was challenged by the Protestant trading powers of England and Holland, and the centralised absolutism of France in the 1600s and 1700s, with the UK rising as the dominant power in the 1800s. Britain, however, found itself superceded by the industrial-military complexes of Germany, the US and later the Soviet Union. America, of course, is now the dominant power in the world.
So now we can see challenges from elsewhere to American power. China is always mentioned, along with India, because of its population. The middle east could be a potential sticking point here, with wrangling over oil supplies already beginning.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4121830.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4191683.stm
So this is where the UN could be useful in arbitrating between global superpowers to ensure this cycle is broken.
In regards to the apocalypse, I agree, Shypsychologyguy, that the world has only a few decades left, but for quite different reasons
www.oilcrisis.com/
