Talk:Scenario: World War III (Obama vs. Putin)/@comment-26577560-20150721014136/@comment-26294986-20150722193853

I am not really concerned if a country is in recession or not. The United States was the arsenal of Democracy in WWII despite a decade of depression. My point is China has a developed modern economy that makes things. China may go through any number of economic downterms. But it will always advance. Russia's economy is dominated by selling comodities. If China had to convert to a war economy they would overwhelm Russia. Again its only a nuclear option that would prevent a determined China from cleaning Russia's clock.