Posted on 11/27/2022 11:33:08 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Because he is a Marxist control freak.
Nato was a dead letter before Putin invaded Ukraine. Putin got final sign-off on Nordstream II. That’s why Germany has been struggling so much with its moribund military this year.
They all laughed at Trump when he went off on them over all this.
Putin afraid of Nato? Certainly wasn’t the case in 2021. In 2022 it’s a different story.
China IS a bigger danger. The US has long since acknowledged this. That’s why the US military is so heavily oriented to the Navy and Air Force, and why so little of the US Army is prepositioned in Europe.
China is losing manufacturing capacity as many businesses have relocated to other low cost countries. Much more so as Xi has been actively hostile to foreign investors.
China is in serious trouble, on this front as in others. It’s not the US alone that’s on a downward trajectory.
You mean Satan Klaus?
“... his lunatic ideas. “
World Government is an age old idea, and is now not only possible but closer to fruition.
Does that help?
But he’s got elected government officials and civil servant bureaucrats under his thumb. One Mr Crenshaw of Texas being one of them.
Commies gonna commie. That’s why.
You didn’t read the second part. Who do you think is responsible for the worldwide Covid tyranny?
So what.
What are we doing about this threat?
Nothing.
We more than anyone created this monster and today because of our dependence on cheap labor, their political and media influence, we are doing NOTHING.
Maximum trade with few limits, even using Chinese made electronics in our defence and Intel systems.
Allowing their military and Intel folks to be trained here.
As new manufacturing systems or tech comes online, allow its export to the PRC.
We are giving the bad guy the means to build weapons and systems with which they will kill us eventually.
History explains this best: When Pearl Harbor was bombed, some of the bombs were made of US sourced steel. We were stupid back then, we’re stupid today.
The war in Ukraine is economic and maybe we actually were strategic enough to exploit the situation to weaken both a competitor and to a lesser degree a threat.
At the end of the day, the underwriter of your foreign policy is your military, period. On the world stage, agreements, promises and respect are only worth the stick you can back them up with.
Russia will get their way with Ukraine eventually, but as the saying goes: you can win a battle but lose the war. On the global stage, Russia is seriously degraded in its ability to push their agenda in places like Venezuela, Syria, Libya, Republic of Georgia...
Russia is a has been. The Soviet Union is gone and it’s not coming back. The Warsaw Pact is gone and in fact almost all are NATO today. Other than their nuclear forces which are in par with ours, they have an army 55%, air force 47% and navy 43% of ours. Their strongest ally is Belarus which has the military capabilities of the Netherlands. They don’t have our industrial capacity (not even close), our tech, population and men reaching military age every year... Trying to paint them as some huge threat and rehashing Cold War imagry is comedic.
They will eventually win once Ukraine is near its end and we tell Mr Z to make a deal. But until that point, we want to attrit all we can.
However, the real conventional and nuclear threat which is expansionist (Russia isn’t expanding) and on a long term collision course with us is the PRC and we are doing absolutely nothing to address this. In fact, Biden reversed the Trump era trade restrictions, the FBI is backing off investigating IP and other PRC based cases. We let a top level person involved in IP theft and illegal foreign sales go... Guess who got money from the PRC in the past?
We might be sticking it to Russia now. But I’m afraid we are de facto ignoring a threat which everyone knows exists, but no one wants to do anything about. Politically it’s not something you want to touch.
A toy company can build hand grips and plastic gun stocks, say Mattel.
The early amraam used an 80486 processor, as in that Intel processor that was in your PC in 1990.
The canopy of a jet is acrylic and polycarbonate with a little special sauce added. Things glasses are made of.
Again, a historical perspective: In WWII, Singer sewing machines made M1 Garands, Ford built B24s, Alcoa aluminum made airplane fuselages, toy train makers built ship parts, upholstery nail manufacturers made the ammo clips...
Even a company making friggin spoons has a military war industrial capability and every product made in PRC sold on Amazon, in Walmart, Target, Best Buy... Is building up the PRC industrial base.
See where I’m going?
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