[BobL]

“Ours is roughly twice the size when population numbers are factored as the should be when making comparisons of this kind.”

By that standard Lichtenstein should have been able to hold off Nazi Germany, and we should have been able to walk over China during the Korean War (since we were far wealthier than them), but they fought us to a standstill and nearly drove us off the peninsular.

Size does matter, and it matters a LOT. Anyway, we’ll about to learn that lesson, just as the UK did starting about 100 years ago.

[Zhang Fei]

[Size does matter, and it matters a LOT.]

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Many decades ago, I read that Japan’s economy was 1/5 the size of the US economy when it struck at Pearl Harbor. Preventing it from adding (and digesting) China’s human and natural resources was the reason the embargoes were initiated. An oversized Japan incorporating a fully-pacified/-assimilated China would have been irresistible in the Western Pacific.

[billyboy15]

Lichtenstein could never have held off Germany whatever their intentions and using that as an argument is ridiculous.

As far as Korea goes, had we the WILL to fight that war to win it instead of treating it as a holding action we could have easily won it in a short period of time. For you to believe N Korea was more formidable than Germany or Japan is quite astounding.

I didn’t make up the figures I posted, they are the accepted way to calculate REAL GDP.

[SoCal Pubbie]

China’s economy is not bigger in the aggregate either. The U.S. is about $21 trillion while China is around $15.