I’m not interested in continuing to pay your European share of national defense to keep Chinese influence out of your life, sorry. America needs to wind down our military and pay for universal healthcare and scientific research, and you need to beef up your own militaries if you want the status quo from after WWII through 2000.
Also I don’t believe the rest of the world views China as an enemy that they wish America would vie for power against.
Although sticking to just the first one is an excellent cost-cutting measure.
You realize that was actually Plan B, right? To leave 'em up there, resupplied by rockets, until we could get 'em back?
Our number one export is AWESOMENESS!
and as we all know America is a place where neither grossest abuses nor inefficiencies are tolerated. Indeed, the allegedly democratic American government is especially well known for the great efficiency and strict obedience to the law in all its works. Woe is the dictatorial China when compared to this and other similar paragons of democratic governance.
Actually, it is. By any measure it is.
Other than the USA being the greatest country on earth, I support this rant. We are strongly tied to the US, and I don’t want us getting dragged down with them.
(I’m not keen on CIA assassinations either, frankly.)
I’m on it.
I think the British should pull their socks up and do this sort of thing again 
Nope.
We used to be the sawmill. Now we’re the whorehouse where the lumberjacks go on payday.
You might think the US is the place of the grossest abuses and largest inefficiences, but that’s only because of your wilful ignorance of what goes on in other countries which lack democracy.
As for the US government being known for great efficiency and strict obedience to the rule of law, that’s a strawman of yours because you can’t come up with a proper argument of your own. I never said there was great efficiency and strict obedience to the rule in all its works. The fact that you try to ascribe that opinion to me based on what I said shows that you cannot or will not show any nuance in your reflection.
Hello no! I want to go back to the days of the Swedish Empire, when the Swedes were someone to be reckoned with in Europe and even had colonies. Just think, if the Swedes had kept up the good work, instead of having McDonald’s all over the world, you’d be able to order Surströmming (fermented herring) or kroppkaka (potato dumplings with bacon) in every major city.
Second choice would be the Netherlands. Wind power rules, and tulips are pretty.
Naturally. Who knows a country’s shortcomings better than the people who live in it? It’s the same for every country on earth, IMO.
Why would that surprise you? Given the typical conditions of politics and government in those days, if America ever was exceptional it was back then. Most other countries were still reigned over by monarchs of one kind or another; not least our neighbors Canada and Mexico (while still under Spain’s rule). Reigning kings and queens, moreover, had a much more active role in their own governments in those days.
And they have the Matterhorn, and that cheese with the holes. Arnold knows, he’s from there! 
Chinese clout is way over-rated.
Read Foreign Policy online for a few weeks, & you’ll quickly grasp that China is coming apart inside of 20 years.
Which means the CCP will go NUTS before it runs out of time since it has nothing to lose, but a future to gain. Not sure why this should make anyone feel safer.
Where do you get that Australians are paranoid about China?
What, precisely, would the OP like me to do about the situation?