Posted on 02/21/2022 8:59:33 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz
Let's play a game. It's called Wargame Exercise - WW3. The game is based on the world around us as of 2/21/2022. Something I have been thinking about is the worlds current posture, militarily, socially, geographically, and politically.
Rules of the game:
1. Take it serious. If you are participating, please do not be snarky or sarcastic with your comments. 2. No flaming. Everyone will have comments which will vary greatly. If you disagree with something, disagree and add what you would do differently. 3. Nothing is off the table. If you think that during this, something might happen in the middle east or elsewhere, toss it on the table. 4. Try not to drift off to multiple issues. If you are discussing an issue, add only one additional action. eg: Russia on Ukraine's doorstep. What if one or two nukes slipped through the audit by UN inspectors of Ukraine's nuclear stockpile?
Finally, the game is meant to challenge our intellect and be engaging. I would love to see three months from now how we did or are doing. Ready? Who wants to start us off with today's situations around the globe.
China and Mexico have a VERY close relationship. China elevates a true leader into place in Mexico, crushes the drug cartels and motivates the Mexican people to come together as one. They invade and with the assistance of their people already living here, take over completely. Any further questions?
Let me throw this out. Unlike with the Ukraine, little far-away Estonia is a member of NATO. If Putin should decide to take Estonia, he could overrun the entire country in a few days.
Then what? Would we mount some sort of WW II-style grand campaign to eject the Russians? Or would we do nothing substantial, and so break the NATO pledge?
This is not meant to be snarky ….. should we behave like the people in charge we are discussing our surrender terms
I would buy different brands of whiskey for each different scenario.
Get out of here with don’t post non serious stuff.
This isn’t Canada.
We’re still free here :)
And I am sorry but it is all semantics because we have traitors and/or incompetents in charge of the US.
My hypothetical is to go back in time and PHYSICALLY FIGHT after the coup.
We decided not to.
Now for my direct answer to your post.
Close NATO’s books to new members.
Leave Ukraine alone. It will cost dems a fortune in bribess and they offer nothing that we need.
If Germany and others need Russian oil, they are free to go fight.
Build up fleet in Pacific and “inadvertently” start a scuffle with a Chinese fleet.
DESTROY them like they are nothing, which we are capable of.
Apologize afterwards for the “honest mistake”
The Ukraine will withdraw its NATO aspirancy and Russia won’t invade it. Biden will claim a victory for his diaper diplomacy.
Two days later, mainland China attacks air bases along the Northwest coast of Taiwan.
Simultaneously, Iran launches air strikes at civilian targets in Israel, knocking out major portions of Jerusalem.
Two days after the Chinese and Iranian strikes, North Korea opens up a massive artillery barrage on Seul.
How does the United States respond to these four simultaneous threats?
It is hard to see the losing side not go nuclear.
None of your hypotheticals are threats to the United States.
1) Eastern Ukraine is part of Russia. Western Ukraine is part of Poland, or Austria. Interference from Western powers is the cause of a Ukrainian state, and Stalin’s annexation of Lwow/Lemberg and hinterlands is the cause of a irredentist pro-NATO/EU faction.
2) Taiwan has been acknowledged as part of China by the US since 1983, and realistically since 1973. The internal affairs of China are none of our business, unless ours are also the business of China.
3) Israel is, in the long run, strategically indefensible, If it’s not Iran, it will be somebody else. In my opinion, the Jewish residents of Israel should leave while they have the chance but that’s up to their prudential judgement, not mine. Again, no American interests are involved.
4) North Korea would face a regime crisis that they probably could not survive if they attacked South Korea. I doubt that they would have Chinese help unless the US was using Korea-based forces to interfere in Taiwan, which teh Seoul government would never allow.
It is not in Putin’s interest to take Estonia unless he plans to also take Finland.
What IS in Putin’s interest is getting Germany to end the American occupation, which, in my opinion, he is halfway to accomplishing.
A grand realignment in Europe is underway. Nobody cares two figs about an independent Ukraine, or Belarus, except (perhaps) the people who live in the former Polish/Austrian territories. The Baltic States, with the possible exception of Latvia, are different.
Actually, it might be in a countries interest to get taken to prevent becoming "liberated".
Liberated into the axis of being forced into a multicultural cesspool of degeneracy, overcrowding, drug flooding and tent cities.
Ser, that’s just it. When you’re talking about World War 3, someone from my Era automatically thinks that nukes are going to start flying. That’s what we were brought up to think.
When any of the Big Boys get involved, especially if they are going against each other, it’s going nuclear at some point. We in the US have said for years that we would not be the first to use nuclear weapons. If we start battling China or Russia, and they are losing, it’s a given they will resort to nukes to even the odds.
I really don’t want to go to battle with either Russia or China. These days, that can turn into a very, very dangerous situation for us.
;>)
The previous 4 years, and the next 6 years are laid out in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Everything else is vanity, as Solomon wrote, repeatedly.
Here is Brenda Weltner’s YouTube channel where she has put most of it together. Next up: The Woman goes into travail: War in Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnatAaTTPCHsmSfiR8aBwGQ
You might want to consult a map before discussing Austria’s interests in Western Ukraine. There’s a few countries in between the two that might have a difference of opinion.
Many discussions on this topic consider how well Russia and China get along, and if China has eyes on expanding. But I would think Russia still remembers its strategy in WWII with spanking Germany when Germany was trying to invade Russia. I would think China would have similar problems, once the Russian troops get across their country.
Interestingly, I don’t see Russia trying to take parts of China, outside of a few disputed areas.
Much of the territory along the shared border is worthless p
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