The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
One of the most dangerous and effective aspects of the ChiCom bio-weapon Covid-19 is that it sets Americans against each other, instead of against the ChiCom launchers of the bio-weapon.
A key attribute of this ChiCom bio-weapon is that its immediate effects do not rise to the level of a Pearl Harbor or 9-11, inviting immediate massive retaliation. Instead, it slowly weakens its enemy targets via several paths:
1. the disease itself, overburdening medical systems across Europe, resulting in
2. the social-distance economic shutdown and subsequent depression, and
3. now Americans are set bitterly against each other instead of against China, which launched the bio-weapon in the first place. And the EU is collapsing.
From the ChiCom POV, it’s win-win-win.
Oh, our bitter assault on the ChiComs is coming.
We’re capable of doing more than one thing at a time
(or, more properly, in sequence). We need to deal with
our own Swamp Bureaucrats first.
Personally I expect that the ChiCom princelings will pull a Nikita Kruschev and offer up Xi’s head on a platter to try and save their supply chain business. We should not fall for it.
Yup.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.