Posted on 01/27/2023 9:02:12 PM PST by Nextrush
It is better to be lucky than smart. As Otto von Bismarck said, ‘God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.’
From China’s state owned publications over the past 11 months, the PLA is obviously keeping an eye out for political fear of war in western-allied countries. They’re watching Internet chatter about Ukraine closely.
That’s what bullies—both bully individuals and nations—do. They watch for signs of fear in the rabble before attacking. If they’re ready to attack and see enough fear (that is, speech from Jane Fonda and Tucker Carlson types in the general population), they’ll attack.
They see our system of government and speech freedoms as weaknesses to exploit. Propaganda and abuse of diplomacy are some of their favorite weapons. In social media, most of them pretend to be us. They try to manipulate us into going all peacenik on our politicians to disarm our military forces and turn them into mush.
They know that some of us are afraid of nukes more than anything else. As long as we’re afraid, they won’t be afraid. They’ll continue to build up their nuclear weapons forces until they’re ready to use them. And as you’ve seen with their human wave attacks in warfare, they don’t care about general populations.
They only think about their own dreams of grandeur (pride, expansionism, conquering, pillaging, rape, perceptions of genetic superiority, etc.).
Old days but coming back in vogue.
There was a less known folk style song by the Communist Party member Pete Seeger:
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.
It was meant to be about the Big Fool Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam but today would be about Putin, Zelenskyy and Xi, and supporters.
(First stanzas were about platoon leader who said to keep going but died in wet mud.)
Well, I’m not going to point any moral,
I’ll leave that for yourself
Maybe you’re still walking, you’re still talking
You’d like to keep your health.
But every time I read the papers
That old feeling comes on;
We’re, waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep! Neck deep! Soon even a
Tall man’ll be over his head, we’re
Waist deep in the Big Muddy!
And the big fool says to push on!
The policy of the Neoconservative Deep State folks who run the Defense and Security apparatus of the USA is simple when it comes to China not to mention Russia.
Poke
Prod
Provoke
Ukraine and Taiwan are issues among others that are used to do that to those two nations.
I can handle Israel doing that to Iran like they have done successfully in the last two decades.
Iran a real dirty enemy.
But these games with Russia and China they are deliberate to get Russia and China to look like the bad guys.
I was going to post this tomorrow..
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/16/us-preparing-war-china/
Not sure we will make it to 2025.
Well... won’t happen until after the US empties its stockpiles for Ukraine... then China will happen... as we will have done China’s dirty work of crushing Russia.
China gets at least some oil from a Russian pipeline
Transneft.
Oh no. Xi and Putin are bff. Always and forever.
The friendship between Xi and Putin is quite genuine.
China the big winner in Ukraine that has been said by many people and I don’t disagree.
The chip manufacturing essentials are in the heads of the engineers and management of TSMC.
Loss of manufacturing facilities is always temporary, if the people survive.
Taiwan is provoking China? How? By existing?
From where I sit the opposite is true.
Those factories cost literally hundreds of billions of dollars to build and implement over many years. And many have a zero tolerance for even microscopic dust. There won’t be a war that jeopardizes them, in my opinion.
I doubt its hundreds of billions unless you are talking of cumulative multiple layers of change and upgrades over the decades. Things that were built in, say, 2006 and replaced in 2016.
A new set of “greenfield” facilities are another matter.
China need only wait—the opposition party in Taiwan wants re-unifications. A few million in Bribes, some slick ads on TV—The Taiwan Government will join China by choice-—with promises of freedoms (like Hong Kong had).
No Communist has a real friend.
Does germ warfare count? If so China has been at war with us since 2019. Since the Democrats were in on the plot that means they fit the definition of Treason.
It was reported Milley called the Chinees Military Generals and kept them informed of what the USA Military was planning.
The Demonrats get most of their ideas from communists, and vice-versa. Because Taiwan's and China's economies are so integrated, 40% of Taiwan's mostly socialist voters are already willing to merge with communist China. China could get that to 51% with a little Demonrat-style immigration/voter replacement. And the immigrants wouldn't even need to assimilate a new language.
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