Posted on 06/19/2020 11:33:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
...
I’ll go one better.
Let’s stay out of it. US has enough to deal with here at home. AMERICA FIRST.
Before supporting India with any moves, get some concessions from India regarding buying U.S. goods and easing up on taking jobs from Americans. It’s one thing to support an ally, but only if it is a two-way deal.
We have our OWN Communist Insurgency and aggression right here, internally, to deal with.
Let’s clean house here first, then we can worry about a war between those two.
China intends to have a short bloody war with India. Given its superiority in aircraft, missiles, armaments, and troops it intends to fight India, inflict heavy casualties and humiliate it. The reason is that China fully intends to take control of Taiwan and the consensus among its leadership is that it must be done by force. China knows history. Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Russia and Japan fought some intense battles in Manchuria. Japan got mauled and the Japanese high command did not want to fight Russia again. When Hitler invaded Russia, the Japanese refused to open a second front against Russia in the Pacific. Eventually Russia was able to send divisions from Siberia which were critical in turning back the Nazi onslaught before Moscow late in 1941.Japan was intimidated and their refusal to attack Russia changed the outcome of the war.
China means to similarly intimidate India. They do not want an attack from India when they invade Taiwan.
No kidding.
Who wrote this? John Bolton?
John Bolton, is that you?
Sorry...typed before reading other commenters, lol.
I say we “make nice” with India but say nothing to China. And I mean NOTHING. Let them stew in their own juices. Jealousy alone will piss them off. Posters who pointed out that we are dealing with our own communists here are correct. Besides, ignoring China is their Achilles heel and they will ponder why we are not paying attention to the grand country of China.
Agreed. We should ONLY support India if it removes the millions of Indian scabs that absolutely ruined the American middle class.
Barring that, let them nuke each other for all as I care. It would solve both their overpopulation problems. It’s not our fight.
They are NOT our ally and we should just let them kill off the respective cesspool countries. Hey, if we are a good ally, let’s send all India s home to defend their country.
I don’t consider India an Ally. I don’t Shop at Convenience Stores either.
India was proud to lead the “non-aligned” countries during the Cold War; let their non-aligned allies help them. We have no obligation to do so.
India sent a medical team to help in the Korean War (when we fought Red China); let’s send them the same (but only if it is a UN effort as Korea was).
They are not an American ally in a legal sense; they are an ally of Bill Gates in a business sense.
Big difference!
[China means to similarly intimidate India. They do not want an attack from India when they invade Taiwan.]
An invasion across 100 miles of open water is a much more risky endeavor than merely crossing a border. An attack on India might be considered a narrowly-focused dress rehearsal designed to determine whether China can even do a land war successfully against a poorly-armed opponent like India. Don’t get me wrong - India has a bunch of flashy Russian weaponry. But the true test of readiness comes down to the unglamorous nitty gritty details, including how much ammo and parts it has in inventory, and whether it can resupply the troops at the front without big gaps in which the enemy can overwhelm them. Before Xi embarks on a far more risky venture against Taiwan that might be opposed by the full might of the American arsenal, he needs to know his military machine can do what he requires of it. That might mean a much bigger advance into India than anybody is expecting.
India has a perceived grievance against China. It feels that China after 1962 wrongly has land that is rightly India. If China were seriously engaged invading Taiwan, India would be sorely tempted to settle some scores. China wants India to know that it would be very unwise to launch any operations against Chinese interests at any time. They want India to realize that a very high price will be paid for any incursion. Its not that India would seek to help Taiwan but it very well would be tempted to take advantage of the situation. No rational government wants to fight a two front war if they can avoid it.
I don’t know if this is perverse on my part, but I wouldn’t mind a naval incident occur between the USA and China. Then we can cut off ALL trade with the ChiComs.
I have the same sentiments but we must get all of the pharmaceutical companies back on American soil. They have us by the short and curlies otherwise.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.