Posted on 08/19/2023 7:43:36 PM PDT by ransomnote
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AFB-XYZ suggested that the CCP might go to war as a means of solving the PRC's problems. This is not so far fetched. Too many wars have gotten started for far flimsier reasons. WW1 comes immediately to mind.
The problem with the idea of the Politburo (Xi) looking outside the PRC on a mission of conquest is multi-fold.
The PRC needs so much different stuff to stay afloat it would have to simultaneously seize ALL of it or fail utterly. Let's take the two most important items, oil and food.
The PRC imports ~67% of its petroleum. ~65% of that is from the Persian Gulf. It is a convenient 7094 nautical miles from Kuwait City to Shanghai. Almost all of that oil travels in foreign flagged tankers. All of that oil must, effectively, pass through one of three straits with a combined width of ~50NM. There are eight nations other than the US, UK, France, and Japan capable of interdicting this supply (India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, and Australia). None of these countries are friendly enough with the PRC to want to side with them in an offensive war.
Roughly half of the PRC's food imports come from five countries (Br, US, Ca, Au, NZ). ALL food imports would go away in the event of a war.
In the event of a war, the CCP is doomed. Win, lose, or draw, the CCP is doomed. That doesn't mean the Politburo (Xi) won't try, but it won't change the outcome.
The first rule of command is to never issue an order you know WON'T be obeyed. Rule 1A is to never issue an order you aren't sure WILL be obeyed. I'm not sure that the PLA & PLAN will uniformly obey an order to go to war.
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Sane people in forested areas use metal roofs. The cheaper kind is corrugated zinc, i believe; fancier ones are colored. All our buildings have metal roofs.
Giuliani Just surrendered.
PS in Hi many people use metal, at least on the Big Island. Don’t know about Lahaina, Id have to look at photos.
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Z hasn't projected power, he can't even project the three hundred miles to the border. Sending drones is a sign of weakness, like IEDs, if you got the sack, you don't need those tactics.
Alex Vindman?
The crash was in Russia, this guy, despite the importance he got in the press couldn't find his ass with both hands.
Victoria Nuland? But IS the CIA in Europe. It all funnels through her.
No way the CIA staffs expenditures through that muppet. She may have known, but it wasn't her signature on the order for the hit.
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BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani surrenders himself to the Fulton County jail.
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Sooooo, where will Trump’s interview with Tucker be aired? Is there a list of places, or is it only on twitter?
And if the illness or inoculation knocked them off a decent diet/exercise regimen…
I guess I'm not that likely to be caught off base.
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That’s Jonathan Banks. One of my favorites. First saw him in Wiseguy back in the 1990s. He was Vinnie’s handler.
Thanks, once a skank always a skank.
Those metal roofs on the Big Island are water catchments. That’s how they get their domestic water. Being mostly solid lava the Big Island has few, if any wells. Fire protection was never the first consideration on any of the islands.
Taiwan Strait? Maybe that’s how the Connecticut got dinged? Waddling around in shallow water tracking a chicom noise maker? And you know, we haven’t fixed it yet? Still tied to a dock at Puget. biden’s Navy is really putting on the “push.”
I thought the Connecticut was an aground situation on an uncharted seamount...but i might be confusing it with something else.
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