Nausicaa, American Style

Its Jaws 7: Sharks need braces too.

Olympic failing anyone?

If the US can ruin anything, it is working its way to ruin itself and the world. STAY AWAY!

they also chopped it to peices and change Nausicaa's charactor to fit the american audince. I should know I have a copy on batamax. this is why it took almost twenty years before studio Ghibli let another of their movies get exported to the west.

DO BLAME THIS ON CHINA AND REMEMBER ROBOTECH

think it the other way around, at least its not plagiarism lol

Just fucking WTF ?!?!

If you owe the bank a million dollars, you're in trouble. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, /they/ are in trouble.

you do realize how insignificant 1 billion is to a country like America, right?

America is not a country, it's a continent...

and china think they're getting this money.....
why?

well for starters china can boycot usa if they dont pay up, that will prolly result in anarchy in the usa and government thrown over(seeing as everything on the shop shelves is made in china), if that doesnt work, then sorry china has more military power than usa and like cccp they are not afraid to send their troops in line of fire.

or a softer approach would be to let their juan loose and see the usa sink along with their own debt value.

usa is serioursly overestimating its position in the world, china has been no 1 for a while now, eu is steping on its heels and then usa comes as no 3

really? usa no.3? i love how all these foreign third world bitches get mad at my million dollar house and me buying up all their cheap shit. thanks for picking my avocados, and if you don't someone in your immediate family probably does. lolz

Anon 14:25 has obviously never read a book on geopols or read a single graph available outside of propaganda... and I'm half-Chinese.

China is catching up... economically.

We are living in Pax Americana... and will for the next fifty-hundred years. Guaranteed.

@Anon 14:25

The reports of the demise of the American military are exaggerated. America accounts for 43% of the worlds total military budget. By comparison, China -- the second biggest spender -- accounts for 6%. Being willing to send troops into the line of fire is one thing. Actually *getting* them to the line of fire is another. China is presently in the *planning* stages of developing a blue-water naval force. They have zero aircraft carriers and a framework for what they'd like their navy to look like at some point in the next fifty years.

Contrast that against America, with the largest naval force (and carrier force) in the world. Their fleet tonnage is greater than that of the 13 next largest naval forces in the world, combined. The bottom line is that in a war between continents separated by an ocean (whether invading or defending) you're going to need naval support.

If you want an even more jarring set of numbers, consider the following ratio: 40 to 1. That's forty American nuclear warheads for each one belonging to China. I did see a statement several years back from a high ranking Chinese officer who felt that in the event of a full fledged nuclear war, China would likely be able to absorb a complete wiping of their seaboard still come out on top in a war of attrition due to their massive population base. To clarify, America has enough firepower to trigger an extinction level event sixty times over. How China intends to withstand that is beyond me; but hey, perhaps they have some secret plan in place to build vaults and stockpile Rad-X, so that they can take their chances with the bandits and rad-scorpions, hundreds of years in the future.

Joking aside, of the countries that may possibly find themselves in an entanglement with America, China has the absolute least to gain from it, in that they would see a default on the trillions of dollars they've loaned to America and run the risk of radiation poisoning. The reality is that China is afraid of losing their control over the Strait of Taiwan. America, on the other hand, is flat out paranoid of everyone. Realistically, they need each other and accordingly, they'll keep their sidearms in their respective holsters for the foreseeable future.

China will become the world's largest economy. There's no doubting that. Your remark about the EU, on the other hand, is unlikely. Barring some sort of movie-grade catastrophe striking America, the projected course for world economies over the next fifty years shows China pulling into first place with 18.5% of the world GDP, America in second place with 16.5%, India in third with 12%. The EU is expected to compete with Japan and Indonesia to round out the top five. There's a chance that the EU may not be represented in the top five world economies by the year 2050, as outlined by the world bank.

All empires wind down with time and this may or may not be the last act of the Pax Americana, but like the poster above me has stated, we can expect at least 50 to 100 years before any massive change in the effect of America on the rest of the world.

Sorry, but don`t misunderstand me saying this. I don`t hate USA or it`s people in general. But you must see US administrations have for long time had catastrophical bad behavior in what comes to country`s economy. Military spending has long ago surpassed the level which is needed for protection of USA, and military and it`s supporters give a shit how USA:s economy is going to suffer in long run.
I can criticize China much more than USA:s different governments last 30 years or so, but the debt to foreign investors like China and Japan (-960.000 Billion USD) IS A REALITY. You can`t run away from that without very serious consequences.
They naturally don`t demand payment in full on one occasion, but USA has to pay mortgages all the time, otherwise US Dollar will drop to zero in value.

Alidan you seem not to understand. The US debt is not ONE Billion USD, but 1.400.000 times that. It makes 500.000 USD for every US inhabitant. Bite it again.
It is money USA has loaned to keep it`s ridiculously expensive military going, and growing. It is not your fault, their propaganda machine has duped even numerous intelligent people.

It is absolutely right to have a strong military to defend one`s own country, like in 1945-85, but thereafter the growth of military spending has gone through the roof.

Add to that a debt of 960.000 x BILLION USD to Japan...
They say Japan`s economy is in a slump. If it is, the reason is Japan has invested TOO MUCH in USA. The total economy of Japan is very highly on green. Now if those countries in debt to Japan could pay back for them little faster..that would make Yen YET STRONGER. No good.
World`s economy is in very bad imbalance.

This thread is of American illustrations of 80s anime releases. Horrible... i have nothing to say. American creativity today...R.I.P.

Don't even know how we got into talking about the U.S. however, the U.S. economy has already been overtaken by the EU by about 2 trillion dollars relative to the GDP (gross domestic product, which is a measure of the countries overall economic output)

Americans on the otherhand still love to claim first because the EU is technically not one country, and by the way of american counting, thats not fair.

On the otherhand you a probably right, on the fact that both with keep their trigger hands steady for not atleast, but make no mistake, IF america defaults on its loans which is the sole proprietor of the U.S. Dollar bill, America will set a very swift chain reaction to its demise, starting with oil based on the dollar. (you should look up who else america owes)

America may have military superiority at the moment, however a monumental amount of the supplies needed to maintain this armed forces, comes from where? you guessed it, along with many other foreign countries.

Also please take into consideration America has a national debt that will exceed its GDP by 2011.

i read it as billion, if i misread that than my bad.

and as for military spending, i can actually explain that to some extent. granted i fucking hate how much we spend.

see what america strives for in its military isn't sheer numbers, or fire power. but survivability. having the best gun, or the most fire power means shit if you have to constantly retrain soldiers.

also from the military spending comes other positives, at least were r&d is involved. it may sound like you hear it over and over again, but benefits from military spending do trickle down. i wont go into it to much, mainly because i cant pull examples out of my ass but here is a hypothetical that can help you get the picture.

lets say they were investing in shocks for cars so they can go over extremely rough terrain, and not need to worry about bumps causing something to misfire or detonate.

they make a smooth as glass ride.
consumers get a down graded version of that.

they figure out satellites in space, we get direct tv.

now like i was saying, them making a more bullet proof soldier will trickle down to us. weather it means that we have a new coating on car windows to make them more bullet resistant, to swat teams having better body armor.

Out of topic, but judging from your avatar...I'm glad you are a fan of Mir/Mule like me...

I'm calling samefag.

Considering I remember Laserdisc were like the size of a vinyl record It was expensive and not that popular in the US hearing that it was popular in Japan I believe their was a LD version of that movie.