And yet was still big into state welfare/education/health and control of the populous. Just like the Left, but without Collectivism.

Heck, it didn't *need* collectivism, since it had power over the ownership class.

I don't recall the American Right (maybe the Faaaaar Right, but I don't pay attention to them) quoting Hitler on a regular basis, and when they do, it's in the vein of, Hitler said he was going to do X, and the Western Intelligentsia didn't believe him, but then he went and did it anyway. Thus, the world can't afford to ignore the rantings of crazy dictators with lots of money.

Remember, this was the 1950s and 60s: as long as it pissed over the ragheads & Russkies, no one really cared.

Specifically, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and formerly the German Workers' Party.

Both are big into government control (though the Far Right doesn't like to admit it).

The only difference between the Far Left and the Far Right is the choice as to which will solve society's ills:
(a) Collectivization, or
(b) killing Jews.

No... they actually want to use helicopters, because they fill important niches that fixed wing craft suck at.

(The purpose of the 1948 Key West Agreement was preventing the Army from re-forming their own air wings, under their own control.)

Hmmm. I erased that and wrote a completely different paragraph.

(Forgetting what I submitted and what I forgot to submit is the price I pay for trying to do 3 things at once...)

In which post? Not in #47287767 nor 47290415.

A lot of things are "might", but the likelihood is low.

I don't think the country will collapse, which implies suddenness. Rather, I foresee slow disintegration followed possibly by regional secessions. Or Northern Mexico-Western Bangladesh.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Run by who? The Chinese? The Russians? The Congolese? The Iranians? The British? The Saudis?

And I propose that you stop fantasizing Utopian nonsense.

So, they reverse engineered... an American chip.

If you want to to be truly independent, go make your own fscking chips from the god damned ground up!

You really deserve a "+5 Insightful" (mainly because I was thinking the exact same thing).

Unless the elimination of the Pax Americana has the very undesirable effect of countries who have lived for decades under the protection of the US military decide to rearm because the countries that they fear have no check on expansion.

Well, MIPS is an American architecture too.

That is a very confusing post. Are you saying that the US military might implement a coup d'etat?

An anonymous contributor submits a link-free Oh Noes 1984!!!!, and the End Of All Our Freedoms comments just flood in.