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China Is Preparing to Start a War with America
American Thinker.com ^ | April 2, 2020 | William L. Gensert

Posted on 04/02/2020 4:48:18 AM PDT by Kaslin

Sometime in June 2001, while browsing the Wall Street Journal, I stumbled upon an item on an inside page all the way at the bottom. It was no more than 75 words in a box. It covered a CIA security announcement concerning an increase in internet and cell phone traffic among suspected terrorists from suspect areas in the Arab world. I canceled a Fourth of July trip downtown because of it.

I assumed that if an attack was coming, it would be on America's premium self-celebratory holiday, the Fourth of July.

When nothing happened, I took off my tinfoil hat, ascribing my worries to my suspicion of Islam — suspicions I had carefully curated from prior events such as the first World Trade Center attack, the Cole, the embassy bombings, and the killing of Americans soldiers in the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.

It has become accepted knowledge that America's intelligence agencies missed 9/11 warning signs — but that's not entirely true. Signs were seen, but they impelled no action. We were so convinced that the fall of the Soviet Union as the end of history precluded any need for urgency. Yet, even if there had been, no one, at that point, knew how to react.

I don't think I need to remind everyone of what happened on 09/11/2001.

I share this vignette as a means of showing that there are always signs. We, for whatever reason, miss them, or we ignore them for political purposes, or we refuse to believe them because they contradict the core tenets of our belief system.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccpvirus; china; fakenews; wuhancoronavirus
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1 posted on 04/02/2020 4:48:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It’s entirely possible they already did.

Some experts say that the Cornhola virus isn’t a very good war weapon, but I’d say it’s damn near perfect. Just look at the results.


2 posted on 04/02/2020 4:50:35 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Kaslin

They’ve been preparing for decades.


3 posted on 04/02/2020 4:52:34 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin

They already have long before this.


4 posted on 04/02/2020 4:53:47 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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--snip-- China claims there are no new infections when there is ample evidence that that claim is a lie. But the Chinese know that by the time people understand, it will be too late. They will have struck, and any new cases will be used to bolster their casus belli. Those Chinese who perish in the interim of silence will have died for the fatherland.

China is lying as Tucker Carlson said last night on his show.

5 posted on 04/02/2020 4:54:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Funny

I called a war with China for 2020 or 2021 ten years ago.

Simple

Demographics.

they need to move men out of their country in order to maintain power and control


6 posted on 04/02/2020 4:55:41 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Kaslin

I’d like to thank Bill Clinton and his buddies at Loral for making it all possible.


7 posted on 04/02/2020 4:55:54 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Kaslin

It will be sudden and overwhelming


8 posted on 04/02/2020 4:56:13 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Ecuador Infierno - Guyaquil Ecuador Going Through Coronavirus Hell

This is what “let her rip, it’s just the flu, go for herd immunity” looks like.

5 minute video. Viewer discretion advised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idbisJsl1sI


9 posted on 04/02/2020 4:57:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

American Thinker?

Sounds like paranoia to me


10 posted on 04/02/2020 4:59:22 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kaslin

bump


11 posted on 04/02/2020 5:00:41 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Vaquero

The jokes on us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orYcAiFqknU


12 posted on 04/02/2020 5:00:53 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Kaslin

It’s hard to know how America would react to that. In recent decades, we have been reluctant to “fight to win”. If we fight a war (let’s say in the Middle East) and the body count gets up to about 3000, then it’s a quagmire and we decide we need to bring everybody home.

But China has poked the bear. A lot of Americans are unhappy with China. They stole our intellectual property, they’ve wrecked our economy, and they killed grandma.

If China starts a war with us, I think the public might support a serious military effort. And if China tried to launch missiles against our mainland, hopefully we could shoot the missiles down. But we might actually hit them back. Talking nukes here. And maybe the world won’t condemn us.

Overall, I think this would be a foolish path for China and I’m hoping they decide against it.


13 posted on 04/02/2020 5:01:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Chickensoup

What do you expect them to do?


14 posted on 04/02/2020 5:02:56 AM PDT by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: Kaslin

The ChiCom virus is the first attack in a war that the ChiComs have already started.

They have prepared for it by releasing milder influenza viruses and seeing the effects as described in various U.S. and world health publications.


15 posted on 04/02/2020 5:05:16 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

The virus is a WMED - Weapon of Mass Economic Destruction. Wipes out wealth not people.


16 posted on 04/02/2020 5:10:32 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake (Remeber)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Inertia. It’s difficult to move something that hasn’t been moved in a while.


17 posted on 04/02/2020 5:11:43 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin
China ready to start a war?

With what?
While the CHiComs have a considerable land force, their navy is crap and their Air Force is nothing but Russian clones.

While the ChiComs might control the sea lanes around the South China Sea, it would get expensive real fast for them to maintain control.

The ChiComs would have to have sea force projection they don't have. And you can bet,the US Navy has an attack sub pretty close to almost every ship the ChiComs have in their fleet. Those would be the first to become marine habitats in a hot war.

18 posted on 04/02/2020 5:12:38 AM PDT by Wizdum
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To: Vaquero

I’d like to thank Bill Clinton and his buddies at Loral for making it all possible.
...
And Bush and Obama and Feinstein they should all be in prison for traitorous activities.


19 posted on 04/02/2020 5:14:17 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: Kaslin

Wuhan First Strike,,,

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20 posted on 04/02/2020 5:14:33 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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