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.
;>)
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
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.
When the first images appear on social media, showing the devastation that Russia can bring our young people will collapse with the vapors. The nation will be split between warhawks and snowflakes. This will make the US policy impotent.
We will sit this out until the attack Poland. And that won’t be for a while.
In the mean time, oil goes to $200. Nat gas runs out in Germany.
Turkey becomes the regional power because they can buy all the Russian energy without using SWIFT. Erdogan becomes a potentate of a new Ottoman Empire.
The economy takes a huge dump. Taxes dry up. Unemployment skyrockets.
Dogs will lie with cats. Old people will eat bugs. And the cleanest water will be in puddles.
Has anyone thought that maybe all those ships off the coast of California are full of missile launchers intended for us, and not shipping containers?
China taking Taiwan will screw the Weest beyond compare, due to the computer chip manufacturing there
They won’t even need to resort to an EMP.