U s warplanes use Chinese parts and twits

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-chinese-raw-materials-found-u-b-1-232750512--sector.html?soc_src=mediacontentsharebuttons

It isn't a few raw materials that make the difference here.  While Russia and the United States prepare to dance with with World War III and the annihilation event brought on by biologicals as opposed to physical manifestations, ostensibly over Crimea and Ukraine, the Chinese are conducting the real war almost in secret.  Well, it isn't a secret to us, but the idiots in Congress and apparently Putin don't see it or don't care to.
Russia easily could have conducted its own economic war, but they are far too unsophisticated to realize where the real power lies.  It is pretty obvious from this set of events.  They are vulnerable to Europe economically, but Europe only needs them for Oil.  As China has shown, if you have enough economic, manufacturing power, the natural resources both come to you and reissue from you in their finished form.
The US and Russia really need to work together, with Europe, to combat the threats which are many and internal and external.  China merely has figured out how to take advantage of the new technologies to steal manufacturing and technology from the West.  The problems of over centraliztion are independent of China, but equally threatening in their own way to a western form of life, which is the only one that gives even the possibility of continuity of human life, as much as waste as it seems sometimes, and which China has both perfected and completely bastardized, but more on that another time.
The war in Crimea easily could spill over into Europe.  It's a pretty short jump, as prior world wars have shown, from invading a friendly suburb to invading an unwilling suitor.  That was the story of World War II to a large extent.  Likewise, the build up of armies to prevent this in advance was the story of World War I.  For those who don't believe in these days of nuclear war that traditional armies cannot clash, just turn on the news.  It happens every day in Africa and the middle east and now, in Europe; in other words, it is already happening everywhere except the Americas.
How stupid and primitive we are to this day, that the natural allies fight one another while the real enemies work against them in plain view but unnoticed.  How stupid and primitive we are that we kill each other randomly but ignore population control and the effects of overpopulation on the environment; that we plan to kill one another and spend fortunes in that regard, but fail to protect ourselves as a species from an infinitely more hostile environment that is space and our own planet.
I'm almost embarrassed to be here with you and, in truth, I am embarrassed to be here otherwise.  As a species we are a bunch of twits.