Posted on 03/27/2023 4:06:27 AM PDT by FarCenter
“It’s a year or two from now” and here’s what we see: explosions at Pearl Harbor and nearby Hickam Air Force Base, a drone attack at Naval Base San Diego, the collision of a Chinese-crewed fishing vessel with a US oil tanker departing Hawaii for the Western Pacific. Meanwhile, “the People’s Liberation Army is ashore on Taiwan in large numbers.”
Its internet and other communications down, Taiwan is cut off from the world. The US government is caught flat-footed. The Marines never make it to Taiwan and US Navy ships on their way from Singapore, Guam and even West Coast ports are hit by missiles before they have time to react. Chinese special forces launch attacks in Hawaii, Guam and Japan.
“Taiwan realizes no help is coming. It sues for terms and gives up. Immediately, the rest of Asia gets the message.” The reputation of the US has been shredded. Its First Island Chain of defense in the Western Pacific is broken. China can no longer be contained and it will not stop at Taiwan.
This fictional “informed speculation” kicks off Grant Newsham’s new book “When China Attacks: A Warning to America.” It is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks the dispute between the US and China can be solved by reasonable discussion.
Newsham is a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies. His career has spanned intelligence and liaison roles in the US Marines, counterinsurgency and commercial positions as a US Foreign Service Officer and a business career in Tokyo as an attorney with an investment bank and in the high-tech industry. His writings have appeared in many publications, including Asia Times.
Having grabbed the reader’s attention, Newsham shifts gears to present an extensively researched comparison of America with its decline and loss of resolve versus China with its coherent strategy and clear objectives.
The topics are familiar: In the US, they include social decay and economic weakness brought about by the loss of manufacturing, the corruption of academic, financial, corporate and political elites hooked on Chinese money and the debilitating impact of America’s woke cultural revolution pitting national self-criticism against the Fourth of July. In China, there is the single-minded focus of a one-party state on comprehensive national power.
(the fools!)
I've got them worried about China when they OUGHT to be worried about ME!!
Yea. All true, but....China makes the mistake of underestimating American culture....not the freaks, the workers.
We can stick it to somebody like nobody’s business when we get pissed enough.
Japan found out. Political confusion ended.
We defeated hitler just to get the gnat out of the way to properly take out those **********s that sneak attacked us.
I just noticed that all of those guys are not standing at attention and are deliberately pushing their stomachs out to look fat. Silent protest.
Its been happening since 2019, with (if you believe this whistle-blower) the help of someone in America.
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“There have been about 200 food factory attacks around the world, most of them in the U.S.”
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To include those who have entered the country illegally which has significantly jumped in numbers. How many are military aged males?
Yes, okay, but our new friends the Taliban will help us, right? /s
It will happen before the 2024 election.
No one can trust the United States now. NATO locked the US out in the beginning of the Ukraine conflict. The US used terrorism by destroying the Russian Gas lines under the Baltic Sea to force Germany to comply to the US. The US has paraded Zelensky around like a war hero, showering him with billions of dollars and arms and equipment. Now that most of Ukraines most experienced fighters are dead or wounded to the point they can’t fight anymore, Zelensky is asking the US for troops. But our own recruiting has fallen back so hard with the WOKE agenda that our own military ranks are being depleted, good men and women are leaving and being replaced by unqualified WOKE individuals who would rather protest the US rather than fight for it.
So I can see a scenario where China does something outlandish that allows them to take Taiwan easily and painlessly. I mean in a confrontational attack, China wins no matter. Even if we deployed two carrier groups to protect the island, the battle would be over in 48-72 hours, each side losing massive amounts of aircraft, and two carriers and all support ships in the bottom of the ocean. This is not world war 2. We would expend all our missile defenses from the ships in two days of fighting, and resupply is over a week away. Results are the loss of two carrier groups. The Pentagon knows this. It’s not a secret. We cannot fully defend Taiwan.
Just another reason why Carter’s incompetent presidency should be not be rehabilitated by historians.
Good catch! Amazing catch!
Good catch!
That was a different America.
If China destroys the US, who will buy all the tchotchkes they make? We are their golden egg laying goose.
If China destroys the US, who will buy all the tchotchkes they make? We are their golden egg laying goose.
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Everyone in China’s newest most eastern prefecture of north america named Xiden.
This is undoubtedly going to occur, or some variant of it, during the Biden administration. Biden’s response will undoubtedly totally fail. After another Kabul-style debacle, every nation will detach and make their own separate deals with China. The US Pacific defense policy will evaporate in a mist of lies and media coverups.
The first warning will be an email from anonymous and untraceable sources to all military and civilian contract personnel, misgendering each and every one of them with a few racial slurs thrown in.
The entire U.S. military will go on an emergency standdown for crisis intervention, therapy, and refresher courses on gender and race protocols.
And THAT’S when the Chinese will strike.
“The US Pacific defense policy will evaporate in a mist of lies and media coverups.”
The same thing could have been said about the Roosevelt administration 85 years ago. So would you have been rooting for the Japanese?
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