[Don Joe]

The Chinese are in a much better position to move to a war/subsistance footing than are Americans.

No Walmart and there will be riots in America.

Bingo. You get it. Poobie still doesn't.

I notice he left out of his comic book ending the part about chinese (American-design) ICBMs landing on the continental USA when they retaliate for our foolhardy attempts to board their container ships. He also left out the part about the attempts being demonstrably foolhardy, when the Chinese crews scuttle the COSCO ships.

[Poohbah]

I notice he left out of his comic book ending the part about chinese (American-design) ICBMs landing on the continental USA when they retaliate for our foolhardy attempts to board their container ships.

Your comic-book ending ignores the inevitable American retaliation for a nuclear strike.

How many national leaders are willing to die by being crushed, incinerated, and irradiated just to keep us from getting a container ship full of DVD players?

He also left out the part about the attempts being demonstrably foolhardy, when the Chinese crews scuttle the COSCO ships.

Ah, yes, in your world, everyone else is willing to commit suicide just to keep the Americans from getting another shipment of pet chew toys.

[Rebelbase]

Yes, communists have never desired to spread their ideology or desired for territorial expansion. We have reached the age of Pax.