Posted on 01/23/2008 7:18:39 AM PST by Rick.Donaldson
The Trans-Asian Axis
Wed, 23 January 2008 / 0911 Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Argentina Filed under: US Military, TransAsian Axis, Survival
I’ve not really had time to write much lately, new babies coming into the family, holidays and just generally being “busy”. So, first I apologize to those of you who were regular readers and listeners to the podcast. For everyone though, today I’m going to address something that is becoming a serious issue in the world today.
The rise of a new Cold War.
America has been the only Superpower - by technical standards - for roughly thirty years. I was in the Air Force at the time Ronald Reagan told Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”. I worked as a Senior Radio Technician at the White House Communications Agency and saw Mr. Reagan as a savior to humanity in those days.
The Cold War ended during my watch - and I lived through most of it as a child, and I clearly remember the “wavering three minute tones” and alarm bells in our schools telling us to hide in our assigned fallout shelters. Throughout the early 1960s this occurred about once per week, along with fire drills and other ‘alerts’ in our school systems.
As a child I recall being terrified at the thought of a nuclear weapon being detonated in Detroit, Michigan, knowing that it would completely engulf the whole of the city and we’d all be vaporized atoms. I knew this because I watched the tests on television and as a child really had no idea how large a blast was, nor did I know that it would take many bombs to do that job. I also knew even as a six year old where the Motor City stood on Communism, and why we were in the gun sights of the Soviet Union.
My hometown, as a child was known for being able to convert every single car production line in every company in those days to “War Production” and could do so in as little as 24 hours. We could build tanks and even planes, pretty much anything the military required and every man and woman on an assembly line in those days seemed to be ready for that conversion. My father worked in a roller bearing factory in those days, and even they had plans to change production lines in the event of war.
Today we have been without the Cold War for many years, and children growing up haven’t had to deal with the scary times we did, until the day Islamic Fascists attacked the United States and the World Trade Center, Pentagon and had other targets in their own sights.
I’m completely convinced that if they had nuclear weapons, they’d have obliterated New York City and Washington DC, instead of just hitting selected buildings. Since 2001 we’ve been at war with Terror, and terrorists.
But in recent weeks the rise of the Soviet Union is evident. Oh, it’s not called the “Soviet Union”, it is called “Russia”. In the past two years we’ve sat on the side lines and watched and listened to Putin and Kim Jong Il rattling sabers. Then Hugo Chavez joined the chorus.
In time, China joined in.
It has become evident to anyone watching the daily intelligence reports - which I know most people could care less about — that America is fast becoming a lone State, standing against Communism and Fascism.
Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Argentina to name a few, are each growing louder and more raucous each making overt and covert threats against the United States, and by default the people of this country.
On this very day, Russia themselves have been making threats concerning the Missile Defense of this country. Today they are running air and sea exercises right off the coast of several NATO countries. If this is not outright provocative, I don’t know what is. Oh, sure, you say, the US runs Naval Exercises too, and yes we do. And honestly as a many-years-military man I say, fine and dandy for countries to practice their personal defense.
The difference is, the United States isn’t trying to be anyone’s enemy. In fact, everyone, even so-called Conservatives in this country are letting themselves believe that Russia is our ally, and that China is our “best trading partner”, and that these oil rich countries with mad bombers are someone with whom we should do business in spite of the fact that most people of the Muslim faith embrace the destruction of Western Civilization and a return to the middle ages.
China has pushed their space program to the point they are able to put men in space, which is cool, but, they also gained a lot of that technology from the Clinton Administration - and in turn a massive amount of missile technology that has gone into upgrading their missiles, and nuclear attack capabilities.
We have Chinese bases in South and Central America. Putin is pushing Russia towards Communism. Chavez is taking over various industries and threatening to take farms from the farmers if they don’t sell their goods at home only. That’s COMMUNISM folks, in case you can’t remember the details on how it works. The government takes over all industry and dictates to whom you will give your goods, sets the prices and makes sure you still work the farm.
We are at what I call a nexus in history. Many things are coming together to make a massive change, or cause a situation from which no one in the world will be able to extricate themselves.
There are times in history, if you’re a student of history, that you can recognize as many events coming to a point of no return. World War II, World War I, the Korea War, and on and on backward in time for as long as we have written history.
This is the time that George Santayana referred to when he said, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Americans by and large do not remember the Cold War - but some of us do remember it.
Personally, I see this new Cold War as the prelude to World War III. While I currently tend to think of the War on Terror as “WWIII” I know it’s not a war in the conventional sense, and the next “world war” will result in the use of nuclear weapons on large cities, and the Russians, Chinese, North Korea and Iran will be involved somehow.
No, I’m not making a prediction, or making prophecy, but I’m clearly seeing a trend in history, and in current events which can only result in a new Cold War with Communism, and an arms race that will not stop until we begin lobbing nukes back and forth.
The United States needs to stand up, stand firm and show our strength to the rest of the world - we will not and should not back down in the face of rising world tensions. A firm hand and the ability of the next President to understand this will make, or break the United States during the next Presidential term.
God forbid that someone like Hillary Clinton gets in office, or we will simply join the Communists as partners.
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