Posted on 03/31/2023 11:53:31 PM PDT by Enlightened1
That has been the clarion call for decades now. “We don’t need troops, we can win in the air.
It’s boots on the ground that take and hold territory.
Aircraft can’t, ships can’t, missiles can’t, computer games can’t.
Boots, with armed men in them.
Anyone saying anything else is both delusional and ignorant.
Smiley Milley and Awful Austin are both doing what the Demoncrats want. To weaken the US Military so we will eventually have to surrender to the “New World Order”
Forced vaccines will do that
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As will participating in a huge proxy war. Ukraine is one huge welfare state, who wants to go fight for a senile old man who puts America last?
The war cheerleaders have one heck of a leader, Biden’s Ukie war is destroying America.
since no one does amphibious landings any more.
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China does.
Frankly at this point, I think America needs to lose in a humiliating fashion and I mean really big so that she will get back to attending to the basics that made her great.
An event bigger than Pearl Harbor so the media can’t make it a “Friday night dump”
At this point,vits the only way I see it.
We can’t even make our own medicines at this point and making warships will take a long ramp up time.
This time the oceans will not allow us the time needed to rebuild our industrial base.
Our next war will be determined in hours, not years.
It got outdate about seven wars ago.
WW2
Korea
Vietnam
Iraq I and II
Afghanistan
Syria
And yes, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria are in Asia.
We need the Navy. We need to mothball the Army and the Marine Corps. We did that before WWII. We can expand the military rapidly if necessary.
You did this, Fool
Yep your Russian buddies and you future Chinese masters would love that to come true.
PS: you go to war with what you have, and you cannot go to war with what you wish you had - ie rapid expansion of some branch were training takes years.
Today's USA stands for Usury, Sodomy & Abortion.
Making pharmaceuticals is not rocket science and it primarily depends on obtaining component chemicals/compounds.
India has a pretty vigorous pharmaceutical industry. I also understand (please correct me if I am wrong) that Mexico and Europe also have more than we think. The US has a massive potential capacity and there is little reason to not make pharamaceuticals here and Canada also has potential. We should start immediately.
PS - another “import from China” that we can ill-afford to do without is large-scale electrical distribution equipment. This one is a nightmare when you look into it with almost no spares available in the US and months long lead times to even get one from China. We could do some backyard engineering to get parts of the grid back up, but much of the grid would remain out for at least a month or more because we are so ill-prepared.
I will politely and respectfully ask the same question again - why do people not see that IF the Ivy-league idiots drag us into a hot war in East Asia that all of these “imports” will end anyways? On top of that, shipping from India, Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, and the rest of the region will be disrupted severely as well.
It is a matter of national security that we clean up our supply chains and focus key manufacturing here or with our immediate neighbors/friends. It has been that way and only one serious candidate has not only stated this but he was trying to change it. One of the key reasons they were so hysterical.
Will it hurt? Certainly. Will we have to do it anyways? Probably.
This is my point - embrace the suck now or embrace the suck later with lots of blood. It will suck either way.
It’s not all pessimism for me though. I think the mere promise of this is enough to cut Xi off with his oligarchs. Xi is the one who seems most committed to the Taiwan question. The rest of the corruptocrat oligarchs in the CCP and the big money men at the top of the CCP have little tolerance for economic pain. For this reason, I am not convinced that Xi will do this and notice that they are trying to “soften” their approach now with everyone but us.
Yes, we agree it will cause pain but do we, as a nation have the will to endure the costs of restoring our national independence?
My answer is no, we’re too fragmented and too distracted by “shiny objects” to see the whole edifice is collapsing.
I see the pain as inevitable in an economic sense.
I have three teenagers. That is the true pain that I worry about most.
If we can spare the blood of our children and it costs us another 10-20 trillion in debt that is an acceptable trade for me.
We will go broke anyways but the difference between eternal heartbreak and economic pain is monumental. The CCP is not the juggernaut they are made out to be and China has a lot of problems. We do too and much of it is because of our Fed and corrupt government cabal.
However, at this point I would rather drown in monopoly money rather than bury my kids or yours. It seems inevitable to me that we are drowning in debt but so is China and right now our printing press is bigger than theirs.
This is why Trump is my #1 choice. He is the only one who showed he is willing to try everything else before gunpowder and he has the chops to do it. He understands leverage and “politicians” really don’t because they are stuck in a box.
Others claim (with no track record to support it) that they can do it too, but I remain very skeptical of them. Trump is the candidate most likely to put my kids and yours first.
Stupid f'n title!
Sounds like a dereliction of duty by the Commander in (Depends) Briefs.
Well the Female commander of the USMC Silent drill team agrees. .. what a f&&king joke.
I pray that the costs are restrained to the economic but things like this seem to take on a monstrous life of it’s own. I have no children but my siblings do and would be horrible to see them or their spouses pulled into an escalating war where any victory would be a pyrrhic one.
How much of china’s economy is a paper tiger is debatable but she is pulling nations into her political orbit while we seem to be repelling ours or getting empty promises of support.
I’m more worried about our imminent future than in the eighties when the political classes feared Reagan was to go all cowboy with the nuclear arsenal.
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