Posted on 03/10/2021 6:59:44 PM PST by DEPcom
One would have thought 9/11 made their minds right but oh no. Pearl Harbor did for a generation but Americans were made of different stuff then. I don’t see that now across all age groups but especially so the younger they are.
Czechoslovakia at one time used to encourage smoking. Their logic was that lung cancer normally arrives later in life, striking pensioners who had left the workforce, not the young, healthy, and productive. Old people dying of cancer saved the economy money. "Smoke up!" they argued.
I've never understood the people who argue that COVID was a Chinese bio weapon. If it was, it wasn't a very good one. Had the U.S. decided to let it run its natural course, the same thing here would've happened. Countless elderly retirees and social security recipients would've died, leaving the country in the hands of a younger, healthier, and financially productive population. We would've saved countless billions in healthcare and retiree benefit costs and this money could've been spent elsewhere, strengthening the country. How would this have benefited China?
Only, being a compassionate lot, we instead throttled the economy and shut everything down, determined that we would spare nothing to extend the lives of every octogenarian, if even just a little bit. But this was our doing, not China's.
But things weren’t allowed to run their course.
The CCP likely knew that.
CCO doesn’t what to conquer\occupy us in the old fashioned way of armies\fleets\air force. Just move us under them where they have a “hegemonic” control through intermediaries. Historically that’s the Chinese way, the Middle Kingdom doesn’t like to be all that intimate with barbarians. (Unless you’re Bang Bang or whatever her name was!)
They need to sell us crap & steal our IP !
Meaning WHAT? What are you saying? It says a lot about a lot in places.
Um, slow down McGruff. The ChiComs aren't much different than the Soviets in this regard. There is not scenario where a nuclear power pulls he trigger first.
Dave Hunt to used say 9/11 happened, people went to churches and then rolled over and went back to sleep.
I say it took a little longer - 3-4 years. But a good number were asleep by the time 2008 came. And voted for the guy who tried to kill their country by 1,000 cuts. And they’re still too dumb to realize his game. It’s rather alarming.
Thanks! So true, I think of Nero; who he was and what he did
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