States Renamed for Countries with Similar GDP
This is very cool.
So, Vlad Putin's Russia has an economy about as big as New Jersey's. Are we really going to let this punk push us around?
UPDATE: Upon further review it looks like the person who drew up this map has an eye for subtle humor. Stumbling, bumbling Michigan is named after stumbling, bumbling Argentina. Notoriously corrupt Louisiana is named after notoriously corrupt Indonesia. Famed mafia territory New Jersey is named after emerging mafia state Russia. Milquetoast California is named after milqetoast France. Can anybody suggest any more delicious ironies in this map?
So, Vlad Putin's Russia has an economy about as big as New Jersey's. Are we really going to let this punk push us around?
UPDATE: Upon further review it looks like the person who drew up this map has an eye for subtle humor. Stumbling, bumbling Michigan is named after stumbling, bumbling Argentina. Notoriously corrupt Louisiana is named after notoriously corrupt Indonesia. Famed mafia territory New Jersey is named after emerging mafia state Russia. Milquetoast California is named after milqetoast France. Can anybody suggest any more delicious ironies in this map?
posted by Donny Baseball at 5:07 PM
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Unfortunately, since brute force is the language of international politics, perpaps military power is more important than the size of economy.
Yes, but, at the end of the day, military power is reliant on economic output. We won WW2 mostly because we could make more tanks, guns and bullets than the Germans. We came up with the idea to measure GDP to be able to determine if we would be outgunned if all of our productive resources went into war efforts.
World War II
"All of our productive resources" included our national will to survive. Dec 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor)...
left us with most of our Pacific Fleet destroyed, and a pityfully under-manned, under-equipped military.The outlook was grim.
We also had Franklin D. Roosevelt &
Winston Churchill.
>>
Today we have Sen. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Murtha, Kucinich, Kerry, Kennedy, & Edwards...And Hate-Merchant George Soros, and
the Zealot Kill-Culture of a Fanatical
Global Offensive Jihad based in Old Persia...Iran wanting Nukes!
May the Saints Preserve Us! (It's a
joke, Go back to sleep, America). reb
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