Which is the most screwed up/dangerous country in the world?

[Le Gaucher]

8 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Russia
	5 (63%)
	China
	0 (0%)
	North Korea
	0 (0%)
	Pakistan
	0 (0%)
	Iran
	0 (0%)
	USA ( because Trump)
	3 (38%)
	Syria
	0 (0%)
	Saudi Arabia
	0 (0%)
	Name your own
	0 (0%)
	0 (0%)
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[Amimnoch]

1. Syria.

When hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the last 7 years...
When you can’t even get an accurate count of casualties due to fog of war...
When thousands have been captured, tortured, and murderd in almost inimaginable ways..
When even those who have managed to flee have been shunned and treated in such inhumane and horrendous ways..

I’m sorry, but I can’t even contemplate there being a different answer.

[Mopar151]

2. South Sudan, Uganda n/t

[First Speaker]

3. Grand Fenwick...

...those fuckers are nothing but trouble...

[Caliman73]

4. Depends on what the definition of "screwed up/dangerous" are.

If you are talking lawlessness, lack of infrastructure, and generally poor quality of life, then places like Somalia and Syria come to mind. If you are talking about despotic places where people are under the heel of a tyrant and generally poor quality of life, then obviously North Korea would rank.

If you are talking about a country that can have a worldwide impact on the safety and survival of all of the people on earth because of the sheer power that it has economically and militarily, then USA, Russia, and China are in good positions there. If it were between these three countries you would need to look at probability and likelihood of stupid acts that would threaten world security.

Russia is trying to exert its influence on a wider scale as Putin wants to recapture the "Super Power" status of the Soviet Union. They are likely to blunder into a war by pushing too far, but the likelihood is not great.

China is ascending. Their approach has been to be lower key, buy into countries and secure access through trade and construction partnership. They are also looking to create a "Chinese Century". They are probably the least likely of the 3 major powers to instigate a war, though they may be forced into participating to defend North Korea from aggression.

Then there is the USA. Typically the USA has been fighting and supporting war since WW2, but never on a full scale, globally threatening way. We are the largest arms dealers on the planet, both internally and externally. However, there have always been checks on how far we would go with regards to conflict. We have either had a sane president or a sane congress. Our foreign policy has been more diplomacy than bullying and threats, but now, it seems that we have a 70 year old toddler with his hands on the nuclear football. A thin skinned idiot with the largest conventional and second largest, but likely most available nuclear arsenal on the planet. That, in my opinion makes the USA the most dangerous country in the world right now.

[Takket]

5. Russia, and it is not even close

Putin is the most dangerous person on the planet, and if you think it is drumpf, ask yourself who is pulling his strings.

[Le Gaucher]

6. I thought Russia would win by a big margin. They are fucking thugs.

Am surprised by the poll result.

[nmgaucho]

7. Venezuela should be on the list

Nm

[oberliner]

8. Embarrassing that anyone here is choosing the US

And completely out of touch with reality.

[ansible]

9. Yeah, anyone who seriously believes this needs to go to other countries

And I don't mean sticking in the tourist zones only either.

[ck4829]

10. I didn't vote for the US, but I can understand why people did

After all, we could have the truly greatest healthcare system in the world, and yet our government and institutions choose to put profits and control ahead of patient care.

We have for-profit incarceration.

We have a war on (some) drug (user)s.

We decided to throw out the votes of 65 million Americans and have an electoral clown college go with confederate flag wavers, Pizzagaters, and people who think 'national security' means "At least the mass shooter was white"

We have an evangelical church that has our government on speed dial and trying to dehumanize GLBTQ people, God knows what they have planned for them.

Our "honorable" legislators are getting into Twitter fights with school shooting survivors.

We talk about "Mission Accomplished" yet we have brought nothing but misery into the Middle East.

We talk about "economic anxiety", yet we gloss over people going to bed hungry and focus on people who simply don't want to work alongside dark skinned people, that's racism not economic anxiety. But hey, we don't really have any economic issues even though people are homeless and hungry, the Dow is just fine, so we're doing just great, right?

[Le Gaucher]

11. While everything you say is valid.. None of it really matters to people outside USA

What you say makes USA a poorly run country.. But not dangerous.

Russia routinely interferes in other countries election. It kills people with poison. They have massive nuclear arsenal. And they are still butthurt on the cold war issue.

I think they are super dangerous