Posted on 05/28/2020 8:51:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
China’s land border touches 14 sovereign countries:..
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The Xi Pooh Flu was China’s first strike, against an unprotected flank. Their allies are the Democrats and the media, running cover for them, bought off by them.
Our 100,000 Americans dead by virus are War Dead, casualties of the strike.
Invasion of the Philippines. Already have long-range missile batteries aimed at Manila, Cebu and Palawan through the fake island military bases in the West Philippines Sea, some less than 50 miles from the Philippines mainland.
The PLA already has troops stationed there with approval from Duterte, according the Senator Lacson and many others.
Look at how much sea can be blockaded by the Chinese Communists if they take or control the Philippines.
The Filipinos today are not the same as the ones that fought along side of Americans in WWII, the Korean War or provided support in the Vietnam War. Too addicted to Facebook and social media.
This War with China is coming.
We need to get our guys out of SW Asia and start preparing for War with China.
When you don’t want War...you go with “Peace through Strength”
When you don’t want War and you don’t prepare...
War comes to you.
We have advantages and now due to our focus on SW Asia and Terrorism, they have some advantages.
1. We need better range on our anti Ship missiles and Surface targeted missiles. We need better Range on our Surface Strike Missiles. We also need to explain to China that if attacked, military bases in Southern China do not have safe harbor.
2. We need more Deep Strike Penetration like the B-21 Raider due to A)our Air Craft Carriers being limited and put at risk by Chinese A2/AD cruise missiles and ballistic Anti-Ship Missiles. B) We need to innovate and find away to extend our NavAir assets.
So if China attacks Taiwan, perhaps we arrange for a new generation of ‘liberator’ pistols in massive quantities to be airdropped by drones in NK and China’s western provinces. That ought to give Xi’s buds in the CCP something to worry about. Every pistol would mean a chance for the Uyghur, Nork or Chinese serfs to acquire a Chinese government made, real assault rifle.
We need a new ICBM program- yesterday.
We need to get our guys out of the ME and shore up our allies in the Pacific Rim.
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IMHO, by the time Xis reign is over, he will have made a play for Taiwan. And maybe more. What hes doing over Hong Kong suggests hes a man in a hurry. There is no pressing need to do anything about Hong Kong. In fact, it serves the same function that it did when China had a closed economy - its an economic valve for China to do business with the West much the way the West does business with other members of the club. By destroying Hong Kongs protected status, and therefore the economic privileges HK retains with the West, he has signaled that he believes China doesnt need this outlet.
Is China in a position to complete the task Xi has set out for it? Its certainly possible. When Japan carried out the Pearl Harbor attacks, its economy (including its overseas possessions) was 1/5 the size of the US economy. Chinas economy is half the size of the American economy today.
Note that Chinese conquerors have generally been content with incremental gains, whereas Japan wanted the whole enchilada, with troops positioned a hop and a skip away from Australia. So the entire Chinese military will be focused on its particular region of interest - the airspace and waters around Taiwan, which will make it much more challenging just in terms of the number of Chinese air and naval units that any country coming to Taiwans aid will have to face. I also expect him to attempt to cement Chinas hold on the South China Sea by seizing foreign vessels passing through the region. Well see.
Xi Jinping’s recent moves are offensive, not defensive. Its human nature to want more than you have. Its why mans long-ago ancestors were hairless apes who wore animal skins, mastered fire, crossed rivers and seas and hunted big game while their cousins - chimps, gorillas and orangutans - were content with staying where they were and dining on berries and roots.
The virus thing was probably an accident. But the outside hostility is the perfect opportunity for him to rally support for what he wanted to do anyway. Its actually pretty standard practice to push your adversaries without quite crossing over into armed hostilities until they push back, so you can say the other guy started it. For instance, the winning of the West required relentless incursions into Indian territory until they began raiding colonial settlements. Chinas expansion from a small kingdom on the banks of the Yellow River involved similar tactics. Id say it was pretty much a universal tactic for any country of any size beyond a small village encompassing a few dozen people.
WE need much longer range and much more stealth cruise missile that can be launched without detectable plumes with greater payloads, more launch platforms (sea, land and air) in much greater numbers....and an Asian anti-ballistic (and otherwise) iron dome like systems with triple back-up coms capability.
Trying to limit a war to just the aims you want taken is a fool’s errand.
The first casualty of battle is your assessment of the enemies’ reaction.
The adversaries of China could/would move on vulnerable targets outside the Chinese war planners focus (Taiwan).
China’s military is picking fights with several boarder countries. They are trying to get the news off Hong Kong and the virus. And they are trying to dissuade foreign business’ from moving to countries like India, in fear that their may be a China/Indian war. If companies will just wait until the wind changes, China may be able to save some business.
[Trying to limit a war to just the aims you want taken is a fools errand.
The first casualty of battle is your assessment of the enemies reaction.
The adversaries of China could/would move on vulnerable targets outside the Chinese war planners focus (Taiwan).]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War#Confronting_U.S._escalation
Xi may even have calculated that a Trump unwilling to bear the costs of continuing a fairly-trivial Afghan presence or bombing Iran proper in response to ballistic missile attacks against Saudi Arabia is unlikely to want to take on the heavy costs of warding off China’s limited military moves in Far East.
Let them become more aggressive. While I feel very sorry for those who will be immediately impacted, such will, in combination with how China screwed over the world with the Wuhan Virus, serve to wake up people to the evil that is the CCP. That will cause nations to unite in a new Cold War to contain and, ultimately, bankrupt China so that they can have a revolution like Russia did to get rid of the Communists there. If we don’t wake up and initiate containment and active measures to harm the Chinese economy, China will continue to grow in power and present a threat much like Germany did in 1939 - i.e. we’ll be at war with a strong enemy - this time with nukes and 4 times our population.
Re: Your history lesson. Answer: So?
Louis the XVII lost Canada to Britain in 1760. Then he tried to get even by backing the fledging USA’s independence in 1777. THAT ruined him financially and led to the 1789 French Revolution and ultimately his head. Napoleon rose from the “ashes” and drove all of Europe into maddening war for the next decade.
That all happened in fewer years than since now and the Korean War. MacArthur wanted to use A-bombs on the PRC and unleash the ROC. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.
The Chinese did NOT drive the USA out of Korea. Kim did not take over the whole peninsula, which was the goal of the entire war the Communists started. That intervention cost the PLA almost 1 million casualties. Sure, MacArthur was way too cocky and did not heed their warning, but the actual war aim of the United Nations and the USA was achieved.
The USA lost Vietnam when Congress refused to allow our treaty commitment to South Vietnam be applied when the North broke the Paris Peace Accords treaty in 1974, and we should have punished them, but were too wrapped up in ruining Republican President Nixon, to even care. Again, shoulda, woulda, coulda.
Again, miscalculations in war are part and parcel. The best plan, even carefully implemented, can ruin a nation because they miscalculate the will and strength of their enemy. That applies both ways, and the USA should be VERY fearful of a war with China, just as China should be VERY fearful of a war with the USA, especially if India gets involved, because the population advantage China has will vanish.
The initial plan almost never survives the first battles.
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