Posted on 08/04/2022 3:33:10 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
The U.S. is running out of time to prevent a cataclysmic war in the Western Pacific. While the world has been focused on Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, Xi Jinping appears to be preparing for an even more consequential onslaught against Taiwan. Mr. Xi’s China is fueled by a dangerous mix of strength and weakness: Faced with profound economic, demographic and strategic problems, it will be tempted to use its burgeoning military power to transform the existing order while it still has the opportunity.
This peaking-power syndrome—the tendency for rising states to become more aggressive as they become more fearful of impending decline—has caused some of the bloodiest wars in history. Unless the U.S. and its allies act quickly, it could trigger a conflict that would make the war in Ukraine look minor by comparison.
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A culture can't be on the leading edge when it "hammers down every nail that sticks out" ...
I wonder how many of our federal and state level politicians on both sides of the isle the CCP owns. I mean paid for and have by the short hairs to do the CCP’s bidding.
Many are obvious but if there 20-50 we know about I bet there are hundreds we don’t.
No need to mention names. We know who the more obvious ones.
It’s madness. Conquering Taiwan will not solve China’s fundamental systemic problems.
How long is it going to take to recognize that the White House is in the hands of forces that intend to destroy America?
There is not going to be any war over Taiwan and there should be Taiwan and China will just have to work out how they will reconcile with each other and go from there it doesn’t affect our security one bit read David Stockman’s analysis on this.
Our so-called “president” will take China’s side. He works for them; they own him.
Let’s go Brandon!
Why did we kill our manufacturing in order for China to become the largest manufacturer in the world?
We’ve been sold down the river by cheap, filthy, rotten politicians from both sides of the imaginary aisle. Sold down the river to our mortal enemy.
(Pelosi went there to provide the Chinese a pretext to invade)
It wouldn’t surprise me if you aren’t 100% correct on that.
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(It’s madness. Conquering Taiwan will not solve China’s fundamental systemic problems)
TRUE 👍
China has all types of factories and makes the level of quality the buyer wants. If you are seeing cheap crap in a US store, it's because that's what the store chain ordered to maximize its short-term revenue.
You're not the sharpest bulb in the drawer, are you?
Frankly I don’t think Nixon could have forseen China’s embracement of Capitalism after Mao’s death that would turn them into the economic power they became.
Yeah, Ike warned against the intrusive nature of the military-industrial complex.
It’s WWIII if China moves on Taiwan.
Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, North Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, USA, Canada.....
Nobody would be immune.
We’re all living on borrowed time now and it’ll be cut even shorter if that China attacks.
War outcome is binary.
If you don’t win, you lose.
“You’re not the sharpest bulb in the drawer, are you?”
I’ve read your posts. You are quite dismissive of the United States, and you regularly denigrate it and disparage it. Your words tell us who and what you are.
Our Founders wrote the Best Constitution around.
Look what the Left has done with it. Would you state that
if the Framers hadn’t done what they did, the Democrats
wouldn’t be doing what they are doing now?
You couldn’t do a single thing knowing some idiot group or
another wouldn’t come around and twist it.
I doubt the Bamboo Curtain could have lasted much longer.
The world was changing, becoming smaller all the time.
“Frankly I don’t think Nixon could have forseen China’s embracement of Capitalism after Mao’s death that would turn them into the economic power they became.”
I think you are right. I don’t think many people foresaw that.
“War outcome is binary. If you don’t win, you lose.”
Not always.
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