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The Coming War Over Taiwan
WSJ ^ | 8.4.22 | Hal Brands and Michael Beckley

Posted on 08/04/2022 3:33:10 PM PDT by Dr. Marten

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To: kiryandil

If I were you, I’d be more worried about China and the Soroses of the world attacking the US dollar.


121 posted on 08/04/2022 6:37:20 PM PDT by Chgogal (No Green Policies until the Democrats hold China to the same standards.)
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To: Jim Noble

BTW: I read your profile page. Seems you are supporting a CARLSON/GABBARD ticket in 2024. I know who Tulsi Gabbard is, but who is CARLSON?

As for Tulsi Gabbard, you clearly are not a gun owner, because she is a big-time grabber.


122 posted on 08/04/2022 6:41:40 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

(We’re all living on borrowed time now)

You got that right, brother

✝️🙏🛐

Probably should call you tomorrow - I’m trying to decide a thing - prayers appreciated


123 posted on 08/04/2022 6:47:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: DoughtyOne

Progressives believed in communism’s eventual success because they believed in a less sold out version of the same vision (like “moderate” Muslims believe in a less sold out version of Islam, so while they may not be personally violent they are too often the tall grass the others hide in). They believed free enterprise would eventually fail, no matter how nice it was, because they believed in controlled, managed economies ... what they mistakingly called “rational” economies run by “experts”.

They have worked tirelessly for various ends, but no matter what they have been snatching defeat from the jaws of victory even as fellow travelers calling themselves “journalist” carried commie water.


124 posted on 08/04/2022 6:48:04 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ought-six

“We cannot start it; history will be very unkind to us if we do.”
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And what if they start it with an EMP attack against us to make sure that we don’t interfere? In this day and age of tuned nukes and hypersonic weapons (both of which we conspicuously lack, having done ZERO nuclear modernization in 3 decades), having the no-first-use policy initiated by Clinton is suicidal. On top of that, our subs CANNOT launch a retaliatory strike if communications are cut off, and that would be a very specific goal of an EMP strike. We could literally be destroyed as a power (let alone a superpower) in less than 1/2 hour, a by-product of our arrogance. Our WW2 leaders were similarly surprised by the Japanese that they woefully and arrogantly underestimated, and I fear that now with that entire generation gone we are about to repeat that same mistake…but with nukes, not torpedo planes.

We should announce that no-first-use is an old policy that will no longer govern our actions. Of course, having ice cream grandpa as POTUS* doesn’t exactly engender confidence in our strength or resolve.


125 posted on 08/04/2022 6:48:11 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr

“And what if they start it with an EMP attack against us to make sure that we don’t interfere?”

If they set off an EMP above the US — which is considered a nuclear first strike — our boomers are going to launch.


126 posted on 08/04/2022 6:50:57 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Chgogal
If I were you, I’d be more worried about China and the Soroses of the world attacking the US dollar.

I'm more worried about Biden's puppeteers attacking the US dollar, like they've done with the stupid Russia sanctions.

128 posted on 08/04/2022 7:03:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

China wants to be the reserve currency.


129 posted on 08/04/2022 7:04:45 PM PDT by Chgogal (No Green Policies until the Democrats hold China to the same standards.)
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To: Ancesthntr; Travis McGee

(We could literally be destroyed as a power (let alone a superpower) in less than 1/2 hour)

You are correct brother; such could put the USA into the Stone Age immediately.

The snowflakes couldn’t handle it. Cities would be no-go zones overnight.

I’m prepped a bit but not as much as I’d like to be.


130 posted on 08/04/2022 7:07:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Ancesthntr; ought-six
This ought-six feller reminds me of Francis in the movie Stripes.

Trump's presidency must have been just awful for him - no saber-rattling, no "bracing and invigorating" attacks on other countries, no weapons sales, no brinksmanship, no "regime change", no threatening other countries with our nukes.

131 posted on 08/04/2022 7:09:20 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Chgogal
Both Russia and China would like that status.

But you're correct - China lusts after it.

132 posted on 08/04/2022 7:11:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

You need to grow up, son.

Your childish screeches are unseemly.

You make stuff up just to hear yourself.

You have no idea of my positions, because if you did you’d see I have been critical of Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan. But, you are just an ankle-biter, a real Sparky.

Let me tell you about Sparky.

Sparky was an annoying little ankle-biter; a real pissant.

Sparky was a Chihuahua; couldn’t have weighed more than three pounds.

I grew up in the 1950s and early 1960s. We were Baby Boomers. Every house in the neighborhood had kids. One of our neighbors had a Chihuahua named Sparky. Sparky would always sneak up behind us, snarling, and nip at our heels and ankles.

Sparky was usually let out in the front yard to take his little rat-sized craps.

One day Sparky met his fate. One of the kids in the neighborhood was riding his bike along the sidewalk in front of Sparky’s house. The kid had his bike all decked out with old playing cards attached to the frame by wooden clothes pins, such that they would be struck by the rotating spokes and make a high-pitched rumbling sound like a small engine. Well, Sparky went after the back tire of that bike and tried to nip it, but he caught his teeth in the spokes and in a flash he was smooshed between the wheel and the frame and the bicycle seat. Sic transit Sparky.

Anyway, about a month or two later, four of us kids (we were, I think, 12 at the time) got together behind the garage to smoke; one of the kids had copped a couple of his mom’s cigarettes. Well, we’re back there, sharing the smokes (there were two cigarettes and four of us, so we doubled up), and one of the kids’ little sister showed up. She must have been about 4 or 5 years old, a couple front teeth missing, and hair in dog-ear pigtails. She kind of whistle-hissed (missing front teeth, you know): “I’m gonna tell mom on you!” Well, one of us – not her brother – just looked at her and said, “Get lost, Sparky.”

And, it just evolved from there.

From that time on we called any whiny, bratty, sneaky, tattle-tale, Sparky. You know; any annoying little shit.


133 posted on 08/04/2022 7:11:19 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Ancesthntr

(EMP)

EMP is what I was referencing there. I didn’t make that quite clear.


134 posted on 08/04/2022 7:15:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: kiryandil

Ah, Sparky.


136 posted on 08/04/2022 7:16:01 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: kiryandil

Still chasing after bicycle wheels, are you?


137 posted on 08/04/2022 7:17:41 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: kiryandil

Nice try, Sparky.


140 posted on 08/04/2022 7:23:04 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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