Posted on 01/29/2015 7:21:07 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
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I agree. It will all happen at once.
This is interesting information, about China. One big motivator for China is that finding their own source of petroleum is pretty important going forward. Being a customer of the Russians isn’t a very good idea.
What fracking is going to do, eventually, is give most first world countries the possibility of being petroleum self-sufficient.
The Chinese need to reach a situation where they aren’t importing energy. Generally speaking, the Chinese have no illusions about what a headache being a big country with a big population actually is. They have a historical beef against Japan, and Japan is developing its own oil.
Taiwan will cost China to take. They’ll do it eventually, but it won’t be their first move.
They have a helicopter refueling line coming from the ocean? So they can park a tanker there? Yeah, that’s a great idea.
Yeah, the Chinese are masters at playing the long game. I don’t see an attack on Japan in the cards. North Korea on Japan is another thing entirely in the not so distant future.
Sushi ?
Agreed.
China may well strike while Japan is weak—Revenge for WW II and the Rape of Nangking. USA will do Zip—we need the Chinese to keep paying on our debt. No China—No free cheese and welfare goodies to the Masses. WE can’t do a thing but watch. China may well use this Naval War to seize Taiwan (For their own protection) and move on Vietnam. Get all three (maybe toss in North Korea too) at once. China needs cheap gas-—1) Sink the Japanese Naval self defence force. 2) seize the Islands they want. 3) take Taiwan with a Trojan Horse attack. 4) sink the navy of the Vietnamese Navy—get them in port and sink em at their berths. Do all this in 48 hours.
Just gettin’ even for Nanking and the other atrocities last century.
The USA has FIXABLE problems if it can transform itself into a petro-power and clean up its bureaucracy.
Japan needs to re-tool Toyota to produce robot soldiers
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