Like it or not, that is the case. Doesn't always work, but they sure are more peaceful than the alternatives.Ok just so I understand what you are saying. You aren't saying that nations with the same government are friendly, you are saying that democracy is special and that democracies are peaceful towards each other unlike every other government?
No idea what you meant there.And leaders of democracies do play power games against each other, less against each other because there is a greater difference the Arab saying me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousin applies here. Democracies are like brothers and the other nations are more diffrent so they can play the role of the other.
Democracies, combined with the price of modern war, have to concern themselves with the price the population would have to pay in money, blood and discomforts, and so the leaders who want to get elected have to think twice about escalating conflicts to war, especially full scale war against peers or near-peers, bossing around some third world shithole is less of a problem, but then again, those rarely are functional democracies, these things are correlated often.
If both of the sides in conflict are functional democracies, chances are good that by the time they arrive at war, one government will change its mind, or one country will change its government, and at least one side decides it's not worth it after all.
Meanwhile, if one, nevermind both sides are lead by autocrats who even if they don't let absolute power drive them crazy are in a position where unwavering appearance of strength in any relations is literally a matter of life in comfort or death by a more ruthless underling, a war can happen much more easily.
But Japan is a fully independent country now, and a major power at that, unlike WP members, even more than Germany, which has more notable desires to contest US strategic influence.As for why Japan does not try to stop the US from being in Asia. Umm well they did it was ww2, they failed lol. Same reason why the Warsaw Pact did not directly contest the Soviets. The Russians were stronger.
What do they care? They have a country to rebuild from the economic and cultural devastation of CCP. Ego battles over who is "junior partner" or not is something the likes of Putin or Xi are naturally dragged into, but democracies? Leaders change, cliques change, goals change. They could start a virtue signalling match over green bullshit. They could get everyone into tracking vs industrial numbers like USA and Japan had with their economic competition in the middle of Cold War. Or they could restart the space race to mog on US history and current state of NASA.A hypothetical democratic China would still be China the nation with the largest population in the world as long as they are moderately competent they would be a peer of the US. A peer won't accept being a junior partner that would cause tension.
But the chances that for some reason t hey would have to just 1:1 copy CCP's ambition to dominate Asia and the world by hook or crook are just low.
Are you for real?Umm the U.S. has intervened in Latin America for a long time. It was not just a cold war thing to keep the communists out. Even before the soviet union existed the US invaded South American nations before the communists were even a threat. The US is not a better empire than China or Russia. From what I've seen and read it seems like nations that live close to Imperial powers hate them, while their clients/junior partners that live far away like them. For example Eastern Europe hates Russia (for good reason) yet Russian allies in the middle east or Africa like them. China's neighbors in Asia hate them, yet it's partners in Africa don't mind them, and if the US went into full isolation or yellowstone erupted Europe would happily ally with China to check Russia. Just the same America's southern neighbors don't like U.S. foreign policy and have legitimate grievances that is why they were buddy buddy with Russia back in the day. They did not just wake up one morning and say fuck America no nation just decides out of the blue they hate someone it's more complicated than that.Banana Wars - Wikipedia
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>poor totally moderate not commie socialists
>poor Spanish Empire
>poor banditos
Yeah, i'll play the world's smallest violin for them. Many have had a direct comparison between Russia and USA, and those generally choose USA.
Why not? When empires fall, shit like this happens. See: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union. More or less peacefully. Even then, doubt they would bother to so aggressively sinicize them as CCP does, which would alleviate the controversy a lot even without outright split. Plenty of democracies have minority troubles, they react differently to them, but generally not as strongly and outrageously as the CCP, in which case the bleeding hearts just barely are managing to get some real outrage going.You are saying that changing the system to a democracy like America would magically change the system how? The Taiwan situation would be fixed I'll grant you, but the Uigers and Tibet would not. The US does not allow states to secede why would an America style democracy in China?
Of course i would put Poland first. But trade is trade, deals have to be negotiated, both sides need to agree.Trade disputes with south east Asia would be the same Americans say America first. As a Polish person do you agree with that? Like if you had all the power would you literally put America first or would you put Poland first? I understand that since Poland is not as strong and needs the US as an ally you might have to take unfavorable trade deals sometimes but the benefits outweigh the costs. Tell me if a democratic China would be a peer to the US why would the democratic China not say China first and do the same or similar things in south east Asia, and get in conflict with the US over other trade deals?
The situation you are describing here is not something we need to make guesses for out of thin air, because it is very similar to the trade and legal disputes over such things as speech laws and climate bullshit between USA and EU, which is also a peer to USA by numbers, over the last decades, which definitely exist, yet are also much less intense and likely to turn into a war than the disputes with CCP run China.
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