- Well I know that, just look at the clipping, but aren't there full-blown riots now? After that rigged election?
- Well that Chavez guy invaded in 07, so the Dutch and us blew him out of the water and out of Caracas.
- Well he isn't here either. He was killed in a bombing (that everyone knows the US orchestrated), and there's been a bloody civil war since. Surprisingly, Iran hasn't invaded.
- Sino-American relations are rougher. Anderson clearly sees the PRC as a threat to American hegemony and treats them accordingly. It seems as there is a significant trade imbalance- is the US still the largest exporter?
- No, the Economic Commission for Africa. Basically a new Marshall Plan. Has been working wonders.
- Well here it's own the verge of collapse. More or less all of Southern Europe is in deep financial straits. Basically all that stuff in like in Greece has hit them all at once. There've been some been some pretty nasty stuff in Spain and Italy. Unsurprisingly, Northern rationalists in Italy have made significant gains. People say they could be the largest single party in Parliament there.
- Well we basically had the same root cause- the housing bubble, but the government contained it really well, and not much happened. Just a lot more regulation. The bubble popped everywhere else though.
So it seems like the US has it worse and Europe has it much better. Anything else you might like to add? Give me time to change though. This whole mourning getup looks really odd now, why does no one wear hats?