“BFF, XI”....said then-VP BIDEN (as long as the checks to the Biden family clear)With the current administration, I see this as an opportunity to waste a lot of blood, and waste a lot of treasure. All for a pre-ordained outcome: “Oh, look we lost”.
I favor isolationism and autarky.
“BFF, XI”....said then-VP BIDEN (as long as the checks to the Biden family clear)On one side I have become a peacenik. How many lives and how much treasure are we willing to spend to defend Taiwan?
On the other side, this plays to what used to be our strengths - an air and sea battle - and if not now, when?
I guess my real worry is what ugly surprises do the Chicoms have for us? Do the DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missiles work? What sort of danger do Chinese infiltrators pose? Are there container ships with hidden missiles positioned off our coasts? And, of course, our leadership, military and civilian stinks on ice.
This is an ugly situation for the US military to be in. And there is no way the we get out of this with the continental US untouched.
It may already be too late. If Putin and Xi strike at the same time all Brandon will be able to do is wet his depends.
from my home page
update in 2021
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3979585/posts
There are some updated conversations regarding the sampan civilian navy internal migration approach.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3979585/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4002096/posts?page=58#58
The chinese will send a sampan navy with 10million “internal migration” civilians armed with CNN uplinks, cameras, and bullhorns. When they get mowed down by our side, the resulting negative PR will be amplified by the chinese knocking out 2 of our aircraft carriers in the blockade with their hypersonic ICBM thermally guided antiship missiles.
America will luze stomach for the fight over what it already calls an internal province of China. Taiwan has never declared independence.
About a third of civilians in Taiwan are ethnic Chinese and maybe only half of them have loyalties and fifth column tendencies towards communist China. They have hundreds of thousands of cargo ships they can fill with civilians armed with cameras, CNN uplinks, and bullhorns.
The resultant slaughter will be live on CNN and the PR backlash will be enough to let China walk right back into their own internal (never did declare independence) province. If we blockade them, they’ll lob thermal-capable antiship ICBM missiles at our aircraft carriers and CNN will record them sinking to the bottom of the sea with the resultant nuclear plume.
America will luze stomach for the fight after luzing a couple $Trillion in carriers and tens of thousands of men in one afternoon, all seen on CNN, with our recourse being... to slaughter civilians. China has all the cards, they just have to lay them down on the table at this point.
And when it’s all over but the shouting, the RINOs and GOPes and democraps will be handwringing, hoping for a quick way to order chinese chips & electronics from Amazon. The chinese want the continued business of globalists so it’ll all be “can’t we just get along” and “water under the bridge” as soon as China is in charge and chips are shipping.
Can the US defend itself against China?
Sounds like neo-con talk.
The chest thumping all sounds great. Then America becomes engaged. Then many soldiers die or are mamed. Then the Communist Left in this country get their righteous indignation voices amplified through the corrupt MSM and America ends up tucking tail and slink away in worthless surrender.
Vietnam
Afghanistan
When they start a draft with the high numbers coming from Berkley, Boston, NYC, and every other Democrat stronghold then, maybe, I’ll think about jumping on board, not before.
Send him. We are bankrupt. We cannot stop China from growing its economy and military.