During my two tours of Korea (1978-79 and 1981-82) the South was already stronger and more modern than the North. That has to be much more so these many years later.
Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the UN.The USA having been weakened due to liberalism is permitting the rise of totalitarian empires again. People like Fareed Zakaria have no idea what “the rise of the rest” really means; they will live to regret it.
— The Naked Communist, Chapter 12, “Current Communist Goals” (Goal #7)
Obama’s capitulation to Iran has basically given a green light to everyone with a long term ambition that had been thwarted by traditional US foreign policy. The collapse of world trade has also taken away the economic stick that was keeping everyone in line. And of course the corrupt oligarchs running the US has gotten all the players upset.
Russia already has the Crimea. Russia annexed it in March of 2014.
I sometimes wonder if China and and the US are secretly coming to some sort of understanding about North Korea and Taiwan: North Korea reunites with the South in exchange for Taiwan rejoining the mainland.
With all the typhoons blowing through the area have the ChiCom bases been damaged?
OK wait a minute, lets go back to the original question...
Just wondering... would three countries (or maybe include a fourth muslim country also) coordinate their efforts to distract the USA, let’s say in Korea with a “military action”, then China or Russia would make their move on what is really attainable in their eyes... (Spratly? Taiwan? Crimea?)
Absolutely.
But you’re a little off. Russia and China have been talking recently, big problem...they’ve been enemies for a long time now they’re making trade deals???
But what’s the target? US of course.
Forget Taiwan, Crimea...Russia already has Crimea. China will overlook Taiwan it’s not their primary target.
Russia and China both have a common target...the good ol US of A. When they start talking, we’re in trouble. And they started talking last year.
They don’t even need a distraction, the middle east is already doing a good job of that. Plus internal squabbles here in the US...Hillary, IRS, VA, illegal immigration, black lives matter...
Now North Korea is acting frisky again, nothing new, but they hate us too and what if they have been talking to either behind the scenes??? Would Russia and/or China use them as a decoy? Yep.
And now we’re looking down the barrel of a serious economic crisis. That might actually be a good thing, looks like China might go the way of Greece pretty soon, that would mean they probably couldn’t launch a serious military effort against anybody.
Then again, it might also start a domino effect, and we’re not in any kind of shape to withstand it either.
So...on the one hand, Russia and China do pose a threat worth looking at, but the economic situation might put everybody in the same mess, and this is beginning to look like a worldwide problem brewing. I’m not as worried about military threats right now as I am economic collapse. That would mean our biggest problem would not be Russia or China but right next door...our neighbors who just saw the bottom drop out of their world and are starving.