you were serious? i could've sworn that was a troll.

oh man

Thanks for fucking up the global economy, America!

you probably would and you'd be more aware of why you wanted it

I think the reason is pretty clear no matter what country you live in?

Reason being: "I want to watch a big damn tv with clear-ass picture quality".

not too sure what's wrong with the post though! a nation like south korea is not going to fight with america to simply chip away at the capitalist ideology or to threaten democracy or freedom or whatever else and the public has gotten this impression as a result of the US military's public relations turning every war into a moral question rather than an economic one

Not sure if we established this was a troll post or not but you're ragging on the wrong Korea pal, the South is full of America-loving capitalists who (according to a guy I went to high school with) have, to a person (100%, he said) had eye surgery to make them look Western.


Also to reply to Ryan earlier: the USA's industrial production didn't trump the combined industry of the UK, the USSR and Germany, but it did trump any of those individually (especially Germany, who had been bombed into nothingness). Don't forget the Russians built the same number of tanks on their own as the entire allied world did and at least as many aircraft. Soviet industry at the end of the war was ridiculous. Admittedly they weren't worrying too much about things like "consumer goods" or "basic necessities" but they were damn good at assembly line production. The USA did of course trump them in every way that mattered and provided what the allies knew as the "Arsenal of Democracy", but I don't think it's fair the USA every gets to make mention of saving anyone from the Nazis in WW2 when the Soviets don't get to ever (with good reason of course, but they did do a lot of legwork!).

One of the big differences between the USA and other countries at the time that let them dominate the world's industry (a strategy that the Chinese have now adopted) is that rather than have all of their industry contained in industrial centers (like the Ruhr valley in Germany, or Sverdlosk-Tankograd in Russia, or all of North England or East Japan) they supplemented big ol' industrial complexes with a factory in pretty much every city. The lifeblood of many US cities was a single factory or a raw resource that directly fueled a factory somewhere else in the US, which is one of the reasons the US economy has changed so much thanks to overseas production. Now China has a factory or ten in every city fueling their lifeblood and it's the major reason they exert so much control in the manufacturing sector.