That has been my point all along and I've ended most every post with that observation. Basically, we're in agreement.The US Navy capability and size is irrelevant when the pres lacks the guts to use it.
...is a fair observation. Both are true at the same time, depending on how we define terms. I should be more clear, so let me give it a shot.You say they won't be fighting pirates, then you say they will be fighting pirates.
I've never suggested that. We don't have to attack; we just have to stop helping....what in the heck makes anyone think the US would use naval force to stop their tankers??
I think China has been gearing up for WWIII ever since the end of WWII. They are doing much the same of what Germany and Japan did before WWII, plus so much more. Some of those things are hugely building up their navy and air forces especially over the past 20 years, coralling people in camps whom they believe to be undesirables, building infrastructure within their own country such as high speed rail lines and highways, building infrastructure on the high seas (creating their own islands and establishing military airfields on them), working on and spreading bio-weapons around the world (such as the pandemic of Covid-19), spreading propaganda within and outside of their country showing themselves as superior and so on. Taiwan will only be the start and they have billions of people to draft into the military. If they ally with Russia - we are fucked and will be in for the toughest fight ever in our nation's history. Then again, they do not need Russia to cause hell on earth but they certainly do not want Russia to be their enemy and ally with us (which I believe is unlikely).I think the Chinese are working up to a Taiwan invasion because they know Biden is a wimp and won't do a thing...
Xi making some pretty tough statements about bashing bloody heads if anyone gets in China's way.
Anyone else think they will take Taiwan over like they did Hong Kong ?
Check out the investment China is making into the island of Kiribati 1,200 miles South of Hawaii. I think they are improving the port and air strip. The potential for things to heat up in the Pacific is one of the reasons we're relocating from Hawaii to NE Texas...but mainly because HI is run by a bunch of liberal fuqwits.Why would anyone think China would stop at Taiwan look at what they are doing trying to make islands to support military bases in the South China sea and threaten both Japan and the Philippines.
The principle of mutually assured economic destruction only works if both sides hold up their end of the deal. The US isn't and won't be able to pay its debts with the same real value. It's like a department store that keeps increasing the credit limit for a customer. The customer gets stuff that costs real money, but the store gets screwed in the end. China knows loaning us money to buy their stuff is foolish, and I'm betting they will trim that down asap. China's emerging middle class and other markets will help them endure the decline of the US market.2/Chinese employment would drop a lot if the U.S. quit being their customer. (But neither country would do well without the other).
You're correct in theory. However, establishing supply chains and production for a lot of stuff take a LOT of capital investment and some certainty for the investors to take the risk....and our money is not going to buy a pile of dog crap if they keep creating more.And that will hurt, quite badly, for quite a while. But there's nothing the Chinese make that we can't make here in North America.
Agreed!Commies or not, every thing runs on $money.
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And, the USA has been exporting what we need to feed our commercial livestock to China, and I think it will bite us in the butt in 2022-2023. Many of us already know people who are having trouble sourcing livestock feed.
I think that a likely scenario would be a wide front economic assault complete with a naval and air embargo enforced by blockade, initial objective could be a forced alliance which would morph into political control in 5-10 years. I doubt if allies would attack Chinese naval forces which would have land based air and missile support and vastly shorter supply lines.I think the Chinese are working up to a Taiwan invasion because they know Biden is a wimp and won't do a thing...
Xi making some pretty tough statements about bashing bloody heads if anyone gets in China's way.
Anyone else think they will take Taiwan over like they did Hong Kong ?
The Chinese wrote The Art of War so they know the best battle is one not fought but won by maneuver.
Those places are going to draw business away from China even if China does absolutely nothing provocative.If places like India, Mexico, and Vietnam are paying attention; they may steal business from China in the fallout.
Those places are going to draw business away from China even if China does absolutely nothing provocative.
Look at the demographics. …
It will play out in crime and violence and other forms of unrest we haven't yet predicted. They've seriously screwed up the natural order of things, the sort of societal profile that humans have evolved to live in. When you do that, very bad things happen.Don’t forget that for several more decades, there’s a huge male:female imbalance. It’s going to be interesting how that plays out over time.
Started under Obama when China Joe halted "show the flag" transits of the straights. Joe is BOUGHT by the CCP, they have his blessing.I think the Chinese are working up to a Taiwan invasion because they know Biden is a wimp and won't do a thing...
Xi making some pretty tough statements about bashing bloody heads if anyone gets in China's way.
Anyone else think they will take Tn over like they did Hong Kong ?
Not really. It's a contributing factor, sure, but American Millennials are a thing. Most of the rest of the world didn't have a miniature GenY/Millennial birth boom. It's their existence that makes American so much younger and stronger, demographically, than our global peers.Americans have just barely kept pace, and the truth is, that is because of South Americans flooding our borders.
...yeah, overall that's true.And it appears, that the decline in new births in America is only increasing.