Posted on 06/19/2025 2:58:26 PM PDT by george76
Haha. It’s a curse.
The devil you know...
I watched a documentary on Stalin’s purges and it took the view that it got rid of old school calvary officers that were reluctant to accept modern tactics involving tanks among other things.
Yes there is disruption among the officer corps but it eventually opened up slots for students of modern mobile warfare like Zhukhov.
Wish I could remember it’s name.
To the forum here;
Any chance at all we retake Bagram AFB in Afghanistan and keep it for us again? I’ve no doubt we could and maybe we should have it if China is disintegrating.
Could it be just maybe that the “deep state” is not responsible for everything and this is the result of Xi not really being a supreme all knowledgeable being.
Sounds to me like his plans are falling apart and were built on a house of cards
Little bit of poetic justice if the China virus sped up the fall
General He Weidong... Not to be confused with the Roman Proconsul Bigus Dickus.
Aren’t you telling the same story told about Putin and Russia.
Same Intelligence Agency (”Deep State”) propaganda IMHO.
An unusual aspect of the Chinese system is that the party and government leadership are located in an administrative and residential compound known as the Zhongnanhai complex, immediately west of the Forbidden City. Much like Russia’s Kremlin, Churchill’s bulldogs do their fighting in the equivalent of a cloistered elite institute at the traditional apex of the Chinese empire.
If you believe that all is well in Russia and China and doom sayers are just deep state propagandists then I guess you would be right.
However I believe that decades long rule by one unchallenged man ruling a country can result in negative outcomes, deep state or not.
In the case of both Russia and China I think that is happening.
I’m still betting that China’s “tang ping” completely destroys grandpa and grandma Han who rule China. These old Chinese are the remnants of China’s one child abortion policy, and they ain’t doing too grand.
China is ruled by old goats in walkers and the tang ping (lying flat) heirs (millennials and GenX) are revolting. They have had enough of grandpa’s bull crap.
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