Posted on 11/11/2020 12:30:18 AM PST by Ymani Cricket
Taiwan would do well to start mobilising in January ready for the storm to come.
LOL, China ain’t going to conquer India. India’s soldiers are of much higher quality, and they’d have to break through the Himalayas, which would be guarded, amongst others, by Gurkhas, Nepalese warriors who grew up in the mountains.
I have a general comment to make.
I’m not really talking about Taiwan.
I’m not really talking about relative strengths of the US military vs Chinese military.
China owns a lot of our politicians, basically all of our media, and some of our military leadership. If we ever got into a hot war with China (over Taiwan, India, or any other topic) we would, to say the least, be fighting with one arm tied behind our back. Powerful American forces would be working hard to make sure we lost the war.
China will be *the* big winner if SCOTUS allows the Rats to steal this one.
Just one of many areas where the bodies would begin to heap up, until the Nobel Committee would just have to award Biden the Peace Prize...
I have many Vietnamese friends who have family in Vietnam. The people of Vietnam strongly support the President as they despise China, and fear that China will steamroll Southeast Asia under a toady Biden regime. While Obama is destroying the American economy and healthcare system, the Chicoms will continue their expansionism through Asia.
>>Even if was inclined to do something, China would blackmail him into silence<<
They already have him by the gonads and they know it. How freaking sad that we are sitting on this ledge.
New wars in the Middle-east and south China Sea.
Welcome to the Biden Administration you Leftist idiots.
Now, I’m sure Xi will allow Biden to make some limp-wristed protest to the UN. But that’ll be it.
Poor Taiwan. Nothing will save her now.
Yep.
But.... Orange Man Bad. /eyeroll
True dat.
I looked up the April Glaspie thing. You seem to be right. The Bush 43 administration made unwarranted assumptions about Hussain’s Iraq having a bias away from “foreign adventurism”. This was wishful thinking from an administration fantasizing about rolling back Reagan’s advancements in the size and strength of the U.S. military and discrediting Reagan’s theory of “peace through strength”, which had it that the stronger we look, objectively speaking, to other countries, as they thumb through the most recently published pages of Jane’s Defense during their spare time and go wide-eyed at what they’re reading about the U.S., the less likely it is that guys like Iraq’s Hussain or Russia’s Putin will begin dreaming about strolling into their immediate neighbors’ territory and saying “Thanks, but we’re in charge now.”
In other words, the biggest reason Trump accomplished what was thought to be impossible and actually avoided dragging us into any new foreign conflicts during his first four years is the fear and apprehension he induced in the hearts and minds of the leaders of the many countries around the world that are not necessarily well-disposed toward U.S. interests (not to mention Trump having spurred a similar dynamic with our so-called friends and allies that persuaded them to quickly ramp up their defense spending, sharpen their domestic fiscal policies, and institute plans for improving the performance of their domestic economies, once they became convinced that Trump would not think twice about repudiating longstanding agreements like NATO and NAFTA and the Paris Accords etc. that no longer served U.S. economic, self-defense or foreign policy interests, if they ever did).
I see Trump as having accomplished this in two main ways. First, he exhibited a healthy enthusiasm for bigly beefing up our military in the wake of twenty-five years of self-imposed anemia that flowed from “Pax Americana”-style thinking unbefitting a country with superpower status in an inherently dangerous modern world thay any teenager at the time with the raw data could easily have seen was, net-net, tilted against U.S. interests. There were simply too many jealous and corrupt tin-pot dictators camped out at too many sketchy spots around the world champing at the bit to boost the revenues of their respective local crime syndicates for us here in the U.S.A. to justify taking a financial vacation of indeterminate length from the admittedly budget-busting strategy Reagan used to face down and wear down the Soviet Union and win the Cold War. I still remember Reagan walking out on the Soviets during strategic negotiations in Reykjavic, Iceland over the Soviets’ obsession with the SDI. Reagan handled Gorbachev like a boss, much to the disappointment of the State Department bureaucrats.
Second, Trump brought with him into the U.S. executive branch his reliance on the strategy of introducing into the minds of those sitting on the other side of the negotiating table utter indecision as to what Trump would do next, or as to which direction Trump would go, if his interlocutors started going wobbly or slow-walking the talks. This, plus a well-known standing policy of being ready, willing, and able to walk away from the negotiating table at any time with no agreement at all if that was what it took to persuade the other side of the fruitlessness of playing games with his administration or attempting to overreach, meant that Trump simply could not be rolled like prior administrations could. Most countries, China included, as well as other large foreign entities like OPEC, seem to have responded by shelving their longstanding policies of playing the U.S. like a fool and enriching themselves at our expense by taking advantage of our unique combination of great wealth and stunning naiveté, and replacing such shenanigans with a more businesslike approach of getting in, trying to get the best deal possible with Trump, getting out within a reasonable amount of time, and simply moving on.
Biden is an appeaser. And we all know how that plays out.
Time to dust off your copy of White Lotus — or go here:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Lotus-John-Hersey/dp/0394451716
Whereby China conquers the USA and takes Americans for slave labor.
Hersey, who was born in China, wrote A Bell for Adano, The Algiers Motel Incident, and Hiroshima.
You’re right.
And then we have this...
“Over two billion people speak English (as of the 2000s), making English the largest language by number of speakers, and the third largest language by number of native speakers.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world
If you want to peeve off a ChiComm ape, tell him that the Chinese language is only good for ordering chop suey. Then tell the ChiComm ape that the Chinese are so stupid that they don’t know how to make chop suey. Then when the ChiComm ape fires back that the Chinese don’t make chop suey, tell him I told you that the Chinese were stupid.
(I love culture wars.)
Taiwan and Japan become nuclear states Jan 2021. Probably Saudi also. Biden will win the Nobel Peace Prize right before WW3 in 2021 or 2022. Or we can go with PDJT.
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No kidding? You mean all that money Xi invested in biden will pay off? Whoda thunk it?
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