[Octar]

I get a strange feeling we are on our way to a new World War.Too many things are starting to sound like history repeating itself.

Me too. The world is coming unscrewed. Having this ignorant stumblebum at the helm does not inspire hope or confidence.

[Octar]

I was referring, of course to OUR ignorant stumblebum, not theirs.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

I'll second or third or fourth or fifth that.

If China is Nazi Germany, they're a Nazi Germany with FAR more potential than the Third Reich.

Defeating small, resource-poor Germany and Japan (and Italy) took the British Empire, the Soviet Empire, the largest economy (us), and China (lots of people).

China has mind-bogglingly more potential than World War II Germany and Japan combined.

As for the Great Depression repeating, a lot of people have said that that is cyclical, and that the last decade or two was the equivalent of the roaring '20s. So a new Depression was predicted for some time now; we just didn't know when it would hit.