Posted on 10/02/2024 7:14:10 AM PDT by delta7
Powerful empire building nations like China and Russia can grow and take until they become too powerful to defend against and even without attacking us control enough of the world that they can control us as well, without firing a shot.
Rust never sleeps and saying we just want to be left out of the nature of man and nations, doesn’t have meaning in reality.
No need for conventional war, a full naval blockage with no fly zone by the PLA insures their goal., three, maybe four months tops.
They will outsmart us as Vlad is doing in Ukraine.
Xi has had 4 years to take back Taiwan.
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You think like a westerner. Like Vlad, they play chess. The US currently plays checkers, and will take years to re- learn how to play chess.
That said, the odds are in favor of China…..a 90 mile supply line as opposed to 8,000 miles for the US….I don’t support China in any way, but facts are facts, and simple arithmetic ( 3 billion Chines) puts the odds in China’s favor.As with Ivan, they fight war in a manner we simply cannot comprehend ( or stomach).
If Xi is serious about invading Taiwan, the best time is now.
China is a paper tiger. They haven't fought an actual war since the Korean War. Taiwan is protected by the sea. Xi is observing the Russo-Ukrainian War. There's a lot that can go wrong in a war.
Unifying Taiwan is a long-term goal for China. Xi may realize that he may not be the guy to do it. China is patient. They'll wait a couple of centuries if they have to.
Mexico could still want to reclaim it.
It was part of Mexico for about 12 or so years, but I think a lot of people don’t know Texas history and tend to think of it as going from Mexico to the United States like a California or Alaska, rather than Texans themselves defeating Mexico and winning independence as a nation and a people called Texans.
Maybe Mexico would find it easier to take Guatemala back.
“I could care less about either Dictator. Putin or Zelensky.”
Yeah, cuz the fate of nations and the welfare of people is all about the dictators.
You’re apparently from a dictatorship. So stay there. We threw ours off 250 years ago. You obviously don’t belong here.
Three or four months tops - like Putin's "special military operation."
Switzerland doesn’t seem to have had a problem. While I understand military is absent and all, the bottom line is we’ve been doing the rinse and repeat for decades and in the words of Dr. Phil, “how’s that working out for you?”
Switzerland is an Army that is a country, and how well do you think they would have survived without America and NATO?
Canada survives just fine although without us I think their vast geography, nature’s wealth and barely existent population would be sitting there like a ripe piece of fruit and Mexico survives with practically no military as do many nations, France still exists, West Germany and East Germany are Germany again, something is keeping the wolves at bay.
Powerful empire building nations like China and Russia can grow and take until they become too powerful to defend against and even without attacking us control enough of the world that they can control us as well, without firing a shot.
Why did you cry to the moderator when I returned the insult you gave me
back at ya Pajama Boy?
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