Last week, the media was buzzing with claims that the Chinese have mastered hypersonic technology. They had flown a hypersonic glider around the globe and then delivered it to a target. Supposedly the glider was capable of carrying and therefore delivering a nuclear weapon. Additionally, the US military claimed to not know how they managed to pull it off. The implication being that the Chinese have now surpassed the American empire in military technology.
The official outlet for the Washington regime promptly put out an essay warning about the threat China now poses. Th point of the essay is to frame the debate over how best to wage the new cold war. One side will be dovish and seek to negotiate, while the other side will be hawkish and want to keep pace with the Chinese. The compromise will be both sides get what they want. This means jobs and cash for the army of managerial class flunkies and military contractors.
The one thing the ruling elite agrees upon is that they need a new enemy and the best one available is the Sino-Russian alliance. On the one hand, the Russians reportedly have magical powers that allow them to muck around in the domestic affairs of the United States and its allies. The Russians are well known meddlers. They are also known for their hacking. The proof of that is Washington has been complaining about Russian meddling and hacking for years.
While the Russians are the brains of the operation, China is being cast as the muscle, supplying the men and arms to threaten the world. Until now everyone understood that Chinese military technology was not cutting edge. China has always been a land-based civilization, so that means no blue water navy and no ability to project power too far beyond her borders. That is why these Chinese hypersonic stories are being planted in regime friendly media outlets.
Even in a cynical age, the power of the mass media is real. The steady beating of the drums about China even has the antiwar people alarmed. The American Conservative opposed all of the wars against the Muslims, but it is now hawkish on China. They are even going in for the “we must defend an abstract concept” ploy that has always been popular with the regime. In this case, China threatens the “alliance system” which is suddenly the most important thing ever.
Interestingly, none of the newly minted China hawks have shown any interest in alternatives to another pointless cold war. America could use economic tools to put pressure on the Chinese. There is no way the Chinese can continue to operate without trade with the US. It is a two-way street, of course, but America outsourced its manufacturing base to China so a handful of men could get richer, not because we lacked domestic resources to make our own stuff.
More important, the American empire controls the very basis of the global economy, which is the money supply. China and Russia can make a show out of trading with one another in their own currencies, but the rest of the world is never abandoning the dollar as the reserve currency. Every wealthy Chinaman has reserves of dollars stashed away in Western banks. As a result, America can put an enormous amount of pressure on the ChiComs without a single carrier leaving port.
Of course, no one seems to be interested in the absurdity of having a tense military stand-off with China yet simultaneously conducting massive amounts of business with her at the same time. Imagine if in the Cold War American business was outsourcing critical supply chains to Russia. How about in the last great war, key industries were sold off to the Germans? That is what is being proposed, in effect, with this stand-off with the Chinese over Taiwan.
Then you have the fact that the people rolling out this new campaign to create an enemy for the regime are the same people who told us that Saddam was the new Hitler and a threat to the world. They told us they were bringing democracy to Afghanistan, and they have been telling us Syria uses chemical weapons on its people. They are the same people who said Islam was a threat to the West then massively increased the number of Muslims settling in the West.
It should not take too much cynicism to think that maybe the people who have lied before are possibly lying now. After all, they lied about the nuclear program in Iraq in the face of technological reality. Building a bomb is very hard, requires massive resources and lots of smart people. Iraq had none of those things. Similarly, the West has been working with hypersonic gliders for generations. So far, they have proven to be expensive toys without much military use.
The fact is the threat from China is not really from China but from the pirates that run the economy who like doing business with China. The threat is the Western scientist who are willing to take Chinese money to perform forbidden research. It is the American tech companies willing to sellout the country for the opportunity to make money helping the Chinese communists. China is a symptom of a much graver problem, one that exists in the ruling class of the American empire.
There is money to be made in the next hoax, so everyone with the dream of living in the clouds will be happy to jump on it. Conservatives will be allowed to pretend they matter again, so they love this idea. The military industrial project will get new batches of cash to buy new toys. The think tanks around DC will get cash to write papers that no one will ever read. Meanwhile the middle-class will continue to shrink, and millions of barbarians will keep pouring over the border.
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Of the many problems of being ruled by stupid people, probably the worst is: stupid people believe their own BS. Obama was so dumb, he actually said that, out loud… and compared to Brandon et al, Obama was Stephen Hawking. That’s why theses like this – starting a new cold war for fun and profit – always rub me wrong. Norman Angell thought something similar, and he was right… about people smarter than Kaiser Willy and Nicky II. And if Obama was Stephen Hawking compared to Brandon, the brains gap between the Brandon regime and even Nicholas II must be visible from space.
Eventually, in other words, someone is going to get carbon monoxide poisoning from sniffing his own farts for too long, pass out, and fall on the GO button.
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Hopefully, the net tranche will be too stupid to work out how to undo the child safety catch over the big red button, saving us from self immolation.
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Whole thing has a Pearl Harbor vibe: someone comes up with a crackpot plan (1)Brutally attack America 2)????? 3)We Win!) but there is no institutional mechanism to push back on it due to institutional group-think, lack of brain power, and cultural rot so the crackpot plan goes ahead. And that’s on all sides of this mess (with Winnie the Xi gulaging anyone he sees as even a mild threat I doubt a half-honest opinion exists in all of Peking).
i believe we were selling large quantities of wheat to the cccp, all throughout the cold war.
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But we were not transferring the manufacturing base to behind the iron curtain. Big difference.
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it shows a pattern of behavior 🙂
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Hey! Selling to both sides is The American Way pal!
What are ya, some kinda commie? 😒
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the best kind of commie!
A new Cold War with China won’t be the worst thing if it stops the transfer of American capital to China.
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It will shift to Vietnam, Mexico, India. This is already happening to some degree. China is no longer the cheap labor option, but American oligarchs have big investments in China, so most of it will remain in place.
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Throw Indonesia and Malaysia in there as well.
Though Malaysia has been problematic lately because their on/off lockdowns have disrupted production of commodity electronic components like surface-mount capacitors.
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It’s the classic “middle income trap.”
China is aware of it and striving mightily to avoid it, but it’s no easy task. It’s a trap for a reason.
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Agreed, but those countries will never be able to re-create what the West had in China from ~1990 to 2020 in terms of numbers, quality and price of workers.
The end of cheap Chinese labor will be a serious issue for the world economy over the next couple of decades.
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how?
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My cheap crap needs might be abnormal, but I find no-name miscellaneous parts and semi-disposable things are almost never from China anymore, usually Indonesia. The shift happened suddenly “under Trump,” so I figure he sort of caused it. Minor improvement. The recycled newspaper package filler smells less dirty.
For things I expect to last, the best guarantee of quality is the ol’ MADE IN JAPAN. Grandpa would be disgusted.
America makes the best stuff but also the worst and there’s no telling which you’ll get, so the label just means it’s expensive. Our specialty, when not homo-ing the globo, is turning Asian commodity parts into half-assed “boutique” goods. We also do that to Asian immigrants.
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Actually defeating China would be simple.
1) Immediate cessation of all food, coal, and oil exports to China.
2) Immediate strikes on their major ports, rail hubs, power plants, and water distribution infrastructure.
3) Immediate massed cruise missile strike on Three Gorges Dam.
See?
You could have them on their knees in a month or so without any need for a nuclear first strike on Beijing and Shanghai.
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Otherwise known as bombing your own supply lines. Great strategy for the west.
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Think of it as a race, or perhaps a game of chicken.
If the West had the will and the vision, we could starve them out while rehoming/relocating production.
The problem is that the West has neither because its ruling class is compromised in so many ways.
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Starve them out why?
To what end is this new war to be fought?
What real quantifiable threat to the integrity of the west is China?
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trumpton expresses my thoughts: Why is China a threat?
Let them have their sphere of interest in their part of the world.
Bring our manufacturing back home and aspire towards self-sufficiency.
I’m sure that more hawkish guys will point out my blind spots, but I don’t see the downside to letting them rule their area, if we disengage from them.
If we can’t disengage, then that is our real problem.
Finally, I don’t care if asian people live under authoritarian rule. It suits most of them just fine.
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That’s what you get when you depend on other cultures/races for stuff that you don’t really need.
Almost all my first born son’s toys were gifted to us by people and the hospital. Every time I read the label, guess what? Made in China. I’m thinking, great. Again.
We’ve ourselves only to blame to our mass desire for cheaply produced goods. And I reckon that we’ve given a fair number of chinks plenty of our education. And they may well have stolen plenty more.
I’m in no mood for war – whatever it may look like – with China; but if it wakes people up, they bin off the consumerism, find God and form a solid white identity to rally round and preserve and build on what our ancestors left, then I suppose it could be plus, in this Clownish World of ours.
I can pass for the rest of my life on Chinese made crap and imported, distrustful and – in fact, rather disgusting (Chinese personal hygiene?) – peoples.
We all know we’ve got to fall hard at some point. It’s going to suck either way.
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Agreed only to the point of mindless consumerism. China produces our pharmaceuticals as well. Even after Covid this did not change. This perfectly illustrates what a grift the war with China nonsense is. Think there would be sanctions against American and European nations trading with China? Me neither.
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You’re quite right, Jack. But I am scratching my head, wondering “why?”. Why is it the case that the chinks produce stuff for our nations of such import? Was it money all along? Guess I’m expecting too much of our pols, but if we are going to subsidize lazy wogs on welfare; why not at least subsidize production of vital goods instead?
I presume that the Chinks have resources and minerals we don’t – so maybe it’s just not doable. But it’s a damn shame – one of the worst things about the globalized world: you have to really on people not your own for vital stuff.
Anyway, my words don’t matter now, if they ever did. Gotta focus on the practical matters of survival.
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It would be easier (and more satisfying) to shove our rotten Ruling Class into cattle cars.
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The military technology and infrastructure gap between China and the US is massive. This is why they are partnering with Russia. In addition to selling the Chinese hydrocarbons, they are selling them military technology that actually works. Even the Russians are far behind on the infrastructure side. In 1974 the US was able to secretly raise a Russian sub from the floor of the Pacific. No one can do this now, 75 years later. One reason is we have sensors all over the ocean floor that allow us to precisely locate just about any man made thing in the ocean.
War with China would be a disaster for the Empire, but a survivable one. The CCP would not survive it.
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“War with China would be a disaster for the Empire, but a survivable one. The CCP would not survive it.”
I assume you refer to the “CCP” instead of “China” or “Chinese people.” Right now over there they are running a movie glorifying sending thousands of their men across the Yalu, with half of them lacking weapons beyond a single grenade. The idea was to pick up the personal weapon of your dead comrade and keep pushing forward. Listen to the bugle call.
U.S. Marines, aerial artillery spotters, Pershing tanks, whatevs. The unlimited resource Mao’s generals asserted was relative manpower. So try this: the Chinese expend 10 million lives to our 1 million. Who cares how, sinking carriers, drawing us into ground warfare by crossing the 38th Parallel via their NorKo friends. Without getting at them cutting off all statins and blood pressure meds overnight. Or unleashing COVID 73.
Just count the dead, how many need be invested in terms of your own, and see who cries “Uncle” first. By the numbers that might not be the “CCP.”
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War isn’t merely about dead bodies, its about imposing a nation’s will on another nation. In a war with China, America can impose a greater drop in standard of living on the average Chinese than vice versa. They need food, we want consumer tech. Their pinch point is feeding their people. Our pinch point is entertaining the middle class and enervating the unhealthy and decrepit. That’s pretty unbalanced.
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The North American landmass also has the advantage of being blessed with incredibly large swathes of enormously productive agricultural land.
It’s hard to imagine any credible scenario where North America could be starved out by an external opponent.
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“War isn’t merely about dead bodies, its about imposing a nation’s will on another nation.”
“Merely” is not a term I would use in this case. One method is seeing how many dead bodies the other nation can stomach. Imagine a nuclear exchange, using the casualty statistics I mentioned. Or more close to home, if COVID is in fact biological warfare, how many Western dead did it take to get female and feminized leaders to wreck their societies, compared to Chinese dead? I think the number in New Zealand is about 28?
“In a war with China, America can impose a greater drop in standard of living on the average Chinese than vice versa.”
I suggest you refer back to the Japanese soldiers holed up on Iwo Jima, or Ho’s men, pulling cannons through the jungles on their way towards Dien Bien Phu. These rustic soldiers could survive on a handful of rice a day. Americans were provisioned more like kings then. And now?
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what if we could kill 10 million of their men, and not lose any of our own? would a war with china *not* involve nukes? it’s not like wars are fought with swords and spears any longer.
oh, and how do the chinese troops stay equipped, fueled, and fed, during an active war? how do the chinese cities stay fed and powered?
how long before the chinese masses are starving?
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I can see you have a glittering career in the Pentagon ahead of you.
“Look I know my last plan to be in and out of Afghanistan in 2 weeks didn’t go so well…
but here me out on this one.
This time we can nuke 10 million before they even notice and land 1000 marines in Taiwan then home for breakfast. This time its going to be no risk, easy in easy out trust me.”
“And what about the retaliation? ”
“Retaliation what are you talking about?”
Stephen Kotkin asserts that is exactly how Stalin defeated Germany on the Eastern Front. Russian causalities were enormous and the Reich had superior armaments but eventually they took out enough German soldiers that they couldn’t hold their gains.
This assumes the Ruling Class would run the risk of their streaming services going down let alone being vaporized. The “war” never would start in the first place for that reason. But, yeah, the materials to conduct a hypothetical war will make for a nice grift.
Tell the Covid Karens they will have to learn to live with the risk radiation exposure. Double dog dare ya.
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If you just get Faucci to tell them wearing 2 masks and distancing by 10 feet will protect them from fallout, they will be all for it.
Hey look its stopped the black death, so nuclear fallout should be a doddle. 2 weeks to flatten the rontgen count.
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Modern spin on that.
Refer trucks heading to the Nevada test site where long deep trenches await frozen bodies cut down from lamp posts from every corner of the north American continent.
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I have a better plan:
1) Worldwide embargo of sandals
2) Point out that black people also like fried chicken, basketball, and watermelons
3) Air-drop in Steve Bannon
4) ???
5) Democracy
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Just taking out the Three Gorges dam would be enough. One-third of China would be under water.
Maybe we can, you know, just not buy TVs from them?
From every normie across the plains “Noooooooo! Nuclear war is preferable!”
Reminds me of a make-believe exchange I had on Gab:’
Normie: “We need to stock up on weapons and ammo for the inevitable civil war!”
Me: “Well before it comes to that, maybe we could try some non-violent actions like maybe not going to football games or a voting boyc-”
Normie: “No no no no, Civil War!!!”
They hate us for our wall to wall propaganda control system … err… I mean freedoms, blah blah, blah.
Expect to see more China biological warfare threats along with space weapons. The best bit of this is that you don’t even have to spend 10% of the graft on dummy missiles and non working airplanes, you can just have sciency looking equipment in labs to prevent the new flumaggedon and pocket 99.5%.
Its just shouting to try and get China to open up to the foreign venture firms. You can almost hear the scratching at the woodwork in frustration. In clown world there appears to be no dichotomy in having your mortal enemy be your main supplier. Who cares, its a detail.
China however, being male oriented, does not give a shit about the media and seems to have learnt its lesson from the Opium wars and early domination by the mercantile vultures. Pity the west can’t learn the same.
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Just to be clear I meant the threats will fake, entirely fictional boogeymen in the media only, not actual things, whose only purpose will be to generate graft.
Much like the Russia fake BS.
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“There is money to be made in the next hoax, so everyone with the dream of living in the clouds will be happy to jump on it.”
Indeed.
Gordon Guthrie Chang & other ‘China experts’ will now have bonanza of ‘public speaking engagements’.
Recall how mass communications promoted characters like Robert Spencer, Ayan Hirsi Ali, Christopher Hitchens, Brigitte Gabriel, Pamela Geller, etc.
David Goldman even wrote an utterly absurd book titled, ‘How Civilizations Die: And Why Islam is Dying Too’.
Nonsense like that really had a market back then.
By the way, Goldman’s latest publication goes by the name, “You Will Be Assimilated: China’s Plan to Sino-form the World”. $$$$
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Sure, let’s just keeping pissing off the chinks, as if there aren’t thousands of things that we need for modern life that are either manufactured there or the base materials originate from there. We’ve done such a great job of outsourcing, they could shut off (or turn on) a spigot here or there and create total chaos – you know, kinda like the covid. Sure we could cut off our markets from all the consumer garbage they send over here, but I’d say they’re in a better position to f us. Today I’m reading the auto industry may be doubly screwed as the bulk of the needed magnesium used in the manufacturing process comes from the inner kingdom. This land mass aka the (former) usa, run by idiots, is screwed. And by extension, so are we.
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keep in mind that the US *has* plenty of almost all minerals – including rare earth. we just don’t let anyone mine and refine them. suicide is a choice.
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China this, China that. What is meant when the word “China” is used? Is it a billion plus souls going about their daily business? Or is it a government made up of American-educated apparatchiks that mean to take over the world?
the rest of the world is never abandoning the dollar as the reserve currency.
Really? If the treasury dept. insists on enpixelating trillions of dollars to pay off the vigorish on the T-bills it won’t take long for the US dollar to descend into an historical money trash can.
The threat is the Western scientist who are willing to take Chinese money to perform forbidden research.
The evil western scientists are probably getting US funds in exchange for their perfidy. It’s interesting that the US at least, considers everything, including science, knowledge and money, from a political perspective.
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The Euro is a viable second option, and it won’t surprise me if countries like France and Germany try to break free of the American satellite and get cozy with China.
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Biden didn’t have a problem with Northstream Ii. This 8s part of the reason.
I actually have no idea how much longer the dollar will be the reserve currency but do look for Europe to further distance itself from the United States. Heck, the individual states are increasingly distancing themselves from D.C.
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The French are really pissed of with the US and UK over the Australia Submarine deal, could see them and Germany more closer to Russia and maybe China, who knows
So far, the opinion of the average Joes who were propagandized into supporting Middle East wars is they hate China, but dislike any thought of military conflict, supporting shutting down trade instead. It’s going to be a hard sell to middle America to wave Old Glory for a military more and more realize is a woke paper tiger that is more hostile to average Americans than foreign adversaries.
That being said, support for military intervention to support Taiwan in case of an attack is sitting at 53%, though who knows with polls as they are now. A strong propaganda campaign will probably get support of military conflict up to 60%, but will be missing the fanatical supporters that can keep the enthusiasm going, especially if body bags start coming back. Also, the white southern boys that made Iraq and Afghanistan a success at first are going to be hamstrung to being helpless.
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Manufacturing consent is something the regime does well. After all, they made a man with severe dementia into the most popular politician in American history. Support for the regime does not have to be real. They just have to pretend it is real and most people will quietly go along with it.
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“…most people will quietly go along with it.”
I have never been so surprised and amazed at anything in my life, as I have been about this. I am surrounded by very smart people who are quietly going along with all of it. It has been the most black-pilling thing I’ve encountered yet.
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Everyone who supports military intervention should have to at least be able to find the place on a map.
For Taiwan should reduce the level down to 0.3% or so.
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Hard to imagine the US actually intervening militarily in/around/against China. As the Zman wrote, there’s all kinds of other ways to apply pressure.
Not mentioned: expelling 300,000+ Chinese students studying in US universities. They’re children of the Chinese elites, they’re coming over here for prestige reasons (and of course to SPY/STEAL intellectual property), and China is a face saving culture.
OTOH, they pay full tuition; Harvard, with it’s 10 billion dollar endowment, would never survive the blow of losing the cash influx.
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In the case of the Chinese students, perhaps some of the research they could undertake during their US education might be in the development of compounds or techniques that would be used to erase the contents of their memories shortly after their plane leaves for the Celestial Kingdom.
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“Harvard, with it’s 10 billion dollar endowment, would never survive the blow of losing the cash influx.”
Don’t know how accurate this is, but I heard not too long ago that, due to its huge endowments, Harvard could stop charging tuition entirely and it wouldn’t make a dent in it’s finances.
The only reason the regime would need real consent is if it contemplated a land war and needed bodies for it – a draft. If it just plans to wage a high tech war of drones, fewer bodies needed therefore no real consent required and it can parade around fake polls to its heart’s (metaphorically speaking as it does not have a real one) content.
“….meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
We always get fooled again
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let me introduce you to Cypher…
Reading this while waiting to get into the secure building where I am a cog in the gigantic ancient wheel of the MIC, every word is fact. Also fact is since the first tribe of cavemen threw rocks & sticks at the other tribe there has been the MIC.
Is it amoral? Yes very much so. It is also true that if any three people are stuck together on an island soon two of them will be trying to kill the other.
When I am shaving I tell myself if it isn’t me it will be someone less competent. My personal stance during the last two hassles was that It didn’t matter if my young boys went on any mission it only mattered that they were able to get back.
The only way the the system could change is if the current ruling batch are fed into chipper shredders.
I am more than willing and pray for that every hour of every day.. But human beings being what they are within a few years a new batch of evil will take root. & it will be the duty of a future generation to do what it must. These thoughts are always in the back of my mind as I play with my grand children. Ignorance would be much better.
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Agree with everything here but this bit is kind of weak:
“Building a bomb is very hard, requires massive resources and lots of smart people. Iraq had none of those things.”
I mean if Pakistan & North Korea can do it, … just sayin’
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Not that I believe they were ever building a bomb. I remember thinking at the time that it was doubtful but a possibility. I thought a lot of things then that I don’t think now.
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I just figure they bought their bombs. The Norks in particular, were probably nuke-armed by China to be used as a sacrificial cats-paw during the Cold War days.
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It’s not building the bomb that’s difficult, it’s purifying the uranium 235.
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Just need some of that yellow cake. Iraq should still have 500 tonnes kicking around it did not use from the first gulf war.
Yellowcake is also easy to get. But it’s 99% U238 or thereabouts and you can’t separate the U235 chemically, because they’ve got the same electron count.
The usual method is high-speed gas centrifuges, like the Iranian ones (ostensibly) destroyed by an Israeli computer virus.
You can buy uranium ore on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM
Both Pakistan and North Korea have had top-class administrative infrastructure necessary to build and secure fissile material and delivery apparatus.
Iraq, on the contrary, had none of that.
Iraqi ‘State’ was a Sunni-supremacist mafia forever in conflict with internal and external adversaries.
Pakistan had a smart fraction that was educated in the West and able to pull it off. They also had a lot of Western help. Iraq never had anything close. North Korea is a great example of how hard it is to build and deploy nuclear weapons. The Koreans are smart and committed, but without access to Western technology, they have struggled to get their program off the ground.
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Was there any serious evidence North Korea actually accomplished finishing a nuke? Given the time of the testings and being tacked onto the “axis of evil” schtick could’ve been one hell of a motovator to blow up a cave or three dor show.
It’s hard to fake: the shockwave from a nuke is much faster than from conventional explosives, someone would have noticed. All you’d have to do was to compare the time stamps on the seismic sensors that picked up the blast.
There is independent corroboration that they detonated a nuke underground. It also appears that while it was a success, they destroyed much of their supporting infrastructure in the process. Even so, going from that to a deliverable weapon on a missile is a huge step.
Building the bomb is easy enough, its getting the parts and the uranium thats difficult
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment
There is a more than a few countries that could build a bomb very fast if they really wanted, Japan and Germany are the obvious ones
China and Russia can make a show out of trading with one another in their own currencies, but the rest of the world is never abandoning the dollar as the reserve currency.
That’s because the dollar is the only legal tender for buying oil on the open market. The dollar is not a fiat currency, it’s anchored in hydrocarbons.
In case anyone wondered why America cancelled its nuclear power program.
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This is also why general price inflation to this point has not been an issue, despite the massive increase in the money supply. The world is a big place so there is always demand for dollars somewhere. The current inflation is mostly due to the supply issues caused by idiotic Covid policies.
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The current inflation is mostly due to the supply issues caused by idiotic Covid policies.
Or by very clever and deliberate Covid policies.
there is always demand for dollars somewhere.
As long as the US military can enforce the dollar monopoly, at any rate.
With all the talk about accelerationism and inflection points and people jonesing for a civil war, it’s surprisingly rare to hear someone argue that patriots should work to destroy the dollar.
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That’s actually the Empire’s biggest stick against its serf-drones. If the dollar tanks, the Empire implodes
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Or the other way around: if the Empire implodes, the dollar tanks.
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I notice the Commies aren’t talking about sinking the dollar either. So much for crushing capitalism.
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Felix, I would think the Dollar might go up if the empire tanks. It would probably become the defacto SDR or something. Yes, the force would go away, but also the need to force would go away.
This is an interesting article about how messed up China’s real estate bubble is:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jim-chanos-chinas-leveraged-prosperity-model-doomedand-thats-not-worst-it
Supposedly October 24th is some kind of key date for Evergrande to officially default.
Get some popcorn this weekend.
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The very serious internal economic problems in China are important to follow. They are trying to shift from an export based economy rooted in cheap compliant labor to a balanced economy. That is not going to be easy. The Japanese struggled with it despite having lots of support from America. China will get little outside support, even if it allowed it. The scale of the challenge dwarfs what Japan faced. Then you have the severe demographic problems.
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I do agree with you here. If China ever poses an actual threat, it will be to quell internal domestic discontent. In the past this was done domestically with the Great Leap Forward, for example, but they could if motivated cause an international shitstorm now.
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looks like R/E development is fully 40% of their economy. thing is, these apartments are empty, and economically inert. also they are not built to last, and start decaying during the construction process. so all the money they have been earning, has been wasted on unusable apartments. it also means their actual economy is much smaller than reported.
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Fund any war with China with tariffs on Chinese exports. Yeah, ain’t gonna happen. Any nation that manufactures your antibiotics already has won.
Turn off your television, tell your children not to debase themselves with military service, and if the Left starts massive anti-war riots support them and if inclined join them in the streets.
It would be freaking hilarious if the PRC announced ahead of time which American cities it will be vaporizing if attacked. ‘Cause they have these terrible missiles and all, you see.
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I dunno. If they choose wisely you could find the CCP has more political support than any of the internal US political parties.
DC, San Fran, Portland, Chicago, ….
maybe they could be the next write in candidate.
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Don’t discount it. Another break on anything kinetic with China is the California might just sit it out, wisely so.
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Jack: My husband mused the other night that, in addition to all the Han spies we employ in every government and military agency, the Chinese could very simply send 100,000 militarily-trained young men across our southern border in dribs and drabs. They could already have done so. How would we notice?
This is, of course, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of Han already resident here as ‘good Americans.’ Notify the sleeper 100k army to mobilize, get instant ‘domestic’ support that takes the entire left coast up into Canada out of play, and wait for DC’s response. Note that I’m not pushing any armed conflict – I don’t blame the Chinese for not wanting an island under imperial US sway right off their shores. I’d like to live in a White America, not a multikult global hegemon.
We are not a serious people, and Citizen of a Silly Country is more than one man’s nom de guerre.
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I will reiterate some things I wrote earlier. Yes, this is all a sham and just the mere threat of cessation of profits from China investments would end anything real. Threatening Karens with nuclear antihalation would lead to many nasty TikTok (a PRC company) videos. McConnell and Biden for all intents and purposes are Chinese lobbyists. The MIC knows full well what it can and cannot do and that’s why the Wars ‘o the Week tend to be against small and harmless Middle Eastern countries. Add to the mix everything your husband told you.
Now here’s the rub. Xi himself suffered during the Cultural Revolution. The same is true with much of the PRC civilian and military leadership. They know batshit crazy when they see batshit crazy. The United States currently is batshit crazy.
I and I suspect you realize the Karens and Clown World and all the rest of the circus are largely staged performances and the Ruling Class never intends/intended for that madness to have any other utility other than as a political tool. But even we see some of this starting to infest TPTB. China has solid reason to be concerned given the similar insanity it experienced, which also was a tool to consolidate power but got out of hand.
The United States horribly miscalculated when it crossed the Yalu during the Korean War. China was a mere shell of itself then and the United States was near its Imperial height. We know what happened. I can see this repeated if enough of the crazies make some stupid blunder to promote gay marriage in Hunan or whatever. You can bet China sees that, and might choose to nip it in the bud to the best of its not-so-limited ability if it sees that as possible.
I want to live among my own, too, and do so as distantly as possible from where there could be riots, rapes and looting let alone nuclear strikes. There’s another reason to relocate.
I still think China will threaten Taiwan but not invade, and the two will reunify over the United States’ objections. That is when things get interesting for us because it is lights out for “our” economy at that point.
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I bet we could last longer without anti-biotics than they could last without food.
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About three months ago I watched a short YT video called “Why the Hype Around Hypersonics?” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTEhG8zzftQ ) . The physicist explaining the technology, and it’s possible military uses, was dubious about the practicality.
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The empowered science(tm) woman!
It’s still not clear to me what a hypersonic missile is and what differentiates it from a hypersonic ballistic missile (the Minuteman 3 missile, which has been around since 1970 hits almost 19k miles an hour which is about Mach 24). I think it might be that the hypersonic missile stays in the atmosphere, but then why do they call it a glider? If it spends part of its time gliding, how is that different from a ballistic missile?
I am guessing the difference between gliding and ballistic is trajectory. If the glider can perform with a flatter trajectory I assume it presents some sort of advantage?
Or perhaps its trajectory is not as fixed, therefore more difficult to intercept. Or maybe it’s all just hypersonic hype.
Practicality is a mere matter of funding. The man in the room who asks why we need a ladder to the moon is really just asking for a RFP.
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I suspect the war drums are being rolled out and beaten to distract the populous from the fact that our government is trying and failing to become more totalitarian and in the process looks pathetic and foolish:
– Mandatory Vaccination and the “No Jab, No Job” approach, which is meeting steady pushback.
– A combination of disrupted supply chains, shortages of workers, and money printers going brrrrrrrrrr leading to either empty store shelves or increasing costs for everyday staples (food, clothing, fuel, etc.).
– A hands off approach to Diverse and Vibrant! individuals resulting in increasing levels of crime throughout the country.
– Leadership with senility or gross incompetence.
So by all means try the “Look over there! Look at that HUGE THREAT!!” approach.
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The problem is that the people running the USGov op don’t realize their figureheads are charisma free.
I mean, they’re not even close to Stalin, much less funny mustache guy.
No one’s getting hyped up to go die in New Taipei or even plant a Victory Garden for Basement Joe and Cackles.
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Fair enough. Can we plant Joe and Cackles?
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After being steadily promised for 40 years that making China rich would make China our friend by all the best of the bestest Cloud people, they’re going to have a difficult time drumming up interest in starting a war with them.
“We must go to war with China, because their uber-smart and hard-working kids keep getting all the Ivy League admissions!!!!” isn’t going to go over very well with the dirt people who’ll be doing the dying.
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Our “leadership” is grossly incompetent only if you think that their goal is to defend our borders or protect our people or pursue policies that don’t wreck everything, but I don’t se any reason to think such a thing.
“How about in the last great war, key industries were sold off to the Germans?”
I see your point Z, and it’s not a direct analogy, but you DO know GM and Ford (Opel and Ford-Werke) built trucks for Mustache Man’s (tm Severian) armed forces, correct?
And then there was IBM and Standard Oil.
Hey, selling to both sides is The American Way ™!
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And the British royal family owned shares in the German arms manufacturer Krupp several years into WWII. Finally sold when the news came out.
So fake and gay is nothing new.
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Krupp sold artillery ammunition to both sides during World War I.
After the war, they came calling and got paid.
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I agree with everything you said, but credit where it’s due: As far as I know, “Mustache Guy” is Pickle Rick’s coinage.
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no matter how detestable the americans might find the chinese they should always consider the alternative, which is GLOBALIST DEMOCRACY. The 2 poles of globalist democracy are george floyd & homosexuality(which leads to pedo stuff) so…
the way i see it the russians are correct to ally themselves with the asians against the americans(not that they have any other options). Nationalism is dead in the west, outside of some keyboard warriors, history will not remember the dissidents, we might as well not exist.
The only reason the western elites are upset with the chinese is cause they reject the 2 poles of globalist democracy, their hatred is ideological in nature, it has nothing to do with china’s military prowess whatsoever.
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Remember in the book “1984”, one “country” was always at war with an alliance of two other “countries”? Didn’t matter how and who were aligned, always at war with traitors/allies.
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This latest nonsense about super Chinese missiles is such an obvious lie that I almost laughed at loud when I read about it. Same thing one year ago about yet another Chinese super missile that could take out an American carrier. What ever happened to those? Easy answer: They never existed.
I remember some years back when everything was about “Russia! Russia! Russia!” The Rooskies were supposed to have a super sub that was far advanced over American subs. What happened to it?
Outside of a few showcase cities China is “an India with guns.” She cannot even find a way to get to Taiwan 90 miles away. Cubans have for decades managed to float across 90 miles of ocean on rafts made of used tires.
China is a paper tiger. All information about her is a psyop to convince people that resisting China is impossible, that we should all just stop trying, ok?
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The Russians do have decent Subs, the Kilo class is very hard to detect when its running on electric power
As for missiles, yeah China and Russia can sink US carriers with their missiles, give it a few years and Iran will be able to do the same
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They have pretty good fighters, SAMs, and networked radars as well.
I like their bomb trajectory calculator in their strike aircraft that enables dumb bomb drops to approach the accuracy of laser/GPS guided bombs without the need to stick an expensive, one-use electronics package on the bomb itself.
The US actually is far ahead of the PRC in the most critical military areas: CRT training and transgender operations for the troops.
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Thanks to that, I’m now a CRT Special Forces Ranger Sniper SEAL.
Boo-Yeasssss!
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I’m struggling to find any meaningful, practical differences between the US and China oligarchs:
US: kids go to Ivy League
China: kids go to Ivy League
US: COVID passes, mandatory jabs
PRC: Internal passports, mandatory jabs
US: Youtube and Twitter bans, Facebook/Google news manipulation; no rights to speech or assembly
PRC: Great Firewall; no rights either
US: 3000 oligarchs run the country
PRC: 3000-member Central Committee + Xi run the country
US: masses struggle to survive, have no voice in system, rent houses from Blackstone
PRC: masses struggle to survive, have no voice in system, buy apartments from over-levered crooks
US: military makes extravagant claims, turns everything it touches to crap
China: military makes extravagant claims, but has the good sense to do nothing but engage in rock fights with neighboring Hindus
This whole thing is a grift. China oligarchs need us as misdirection against their property company collapse. US oligarchs need China to justify the next Afghanistan-like looting operation for MIC. What a romance……..
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PRC mandates a relatively harmless jab and AFAIK you can pretty much say whatever you want besides criticize the government. The population’s morals were utterly savaged by Mao and now the elite are using social credit and other measures to restore decency.
Confucius say: to restore broken pot require great heat and pressure.
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All very good points by Captain Willard.
I would like to focus on one point he touched on: I will start to take the sabre-rattling seriously once the CCP elites stop sending their only children to study at U.S. universities, but not a moment sooner.
The push to create a new Cold War with China, Russia or both just shows how our rulers never throught through their plan to bring whites to their knees. They’re like the South Park gnomes.
Phase One: Destroy whites by demoralizing them and flooding the US with hostile non-whites
Phase Two: ?????
Phase Three: Wonderful first world country
We’re like the late Roman Empire. The invading hordes can’t think of a better system so they’re just hanging on to the institutions and policies of the ever-dwindling Romans. But without the qualified personnel to man those institutions and the culture/morality of the previous people that gave the institutions and rules authority, the system slowly breaks down.
A new Cold War definitely is a huge profit center for many Washington interests, but it’s also a sign that they don’t know how to move forward. Or, more accurately, they fear what a society that moves beyond its Christian white past will look like, so they stick with trying to prop up that past with whites falling in population and power.
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I started to post something similar earlier. TPTB are getting a preview of what post-White America will be and it doesn’t align much with their vision. It’s too late for them to turn back the clock, and soon someone’s private jet will fall from the sky after having a difficult time getting off the ground. There’s much more to come.
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Our rulers wanted to destroy white America but rule over the United States of the 1980s.
To destroy white American, our rulers had to flood it with non-whites and to destroy white American culture. They succeeded. But, obviously, they destroyed 1980s America as well.
Neither our rulers nor their mercenaries know what to do now. That’s why they keep pretending that white nationalists are everywhere. It’s why they keep pretending that China or Russia is a threat.
It’s not just to keep them in power. It’s because they don’t know what comes next. They’re creating Brazil, but they don’t want to rule Brazil. They’re terrified to give up the past because the future is ugly and messy.
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“Our rulers wanted to destroy white America but rule over the United States of the 1980s.”
Yes. And the only thing they hate more than white america is the nagging realization that without white america there is no america to rule. This makes them hate us even more. Like the cheating ex who fails to stick the landing then makes it her life’s work to destroy the better life we create in the ashes.
Their anxiety fuels a scorched earth view of us; they can tolerate no survivors. Like the covid control group, evidence of what was and what can be possible.
Perhaps why they insist on doubling-down and purging the last vestiges of white competency from every institution. “White rage” is pure projection. But it should instruct us as to what we will likely have to conjure to meet them in kind in the field.
Even in the man-on-the-street level I see this breaking across the prog-leftist camp. The most rabid progressives I know reside on opposite sides of this precipice of epiphany. Two pincers of white hate only disagreeing on the frivolities of the crushing.
The Portland-Seattle-Vermont delusional utopians who live in 85% white areas being totally dedicated to the cause of destroying white america as the ash of their beliefs in action blackens their own villages. They look around and see the forest, so much still to burn before Progress can be realized.
Then there are the white progs already living in the various Brazils, surrounded by their betters, reveling in their prostration toward the progressive mecca of a diverse and most equal of equal multiculti civilizations. The wealthy ones enjoy the view from Elysium while the less fortunate enjoy the status of the right side of history. The air was already thick with ash and so of course they must destroy flyover because the progressive bounty is mandatory. The fake plastic trees are losing luster and so its Bozeman or bust!
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move forward?? they cannot even hold orbit :P.
the thing is a cold war takes real skill to conduct without going hot accidentally. sound like something this crew can handle?
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I’m banking on China understanding the situation and keeping things from going hot.
China has lot of problems – like a lot – but they’re smart and they play the long game. They can see that the United States is turning into a Brazil. And they know that Brazil doesn’t pose a threat to what they want, which is regional hegemony.
From their perspective, there’s nothing to gain from confronting the United States directly. Just wait us out.
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You better hope they are in on the scam.
Because running a brinkmanship cold war against a face saving culture could get real nasty.
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Just watched YouTube channel Curious Droid, about the original Apollo plan. White men everywhere.
To bad they wasted time, talent, and money on such an ephemeral program
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chinese are careless and reckless, so counting on them to keep a cold war cold, is naive. especially given how bellicose they are currently.
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Here’s an important counter. Most of the current Chinese leadership lived through, mostly as children, the Cultural Revolution. They know batshit crazy when they see it, and the United States is batshit crazy obviously. They have every reason to be afraid and would act accordingly.
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I think the funniest aspect of people who venerate the founding fathers is that they ignore how the founders used Roman government as a guide for creating the American government in spite of knowing exactly how Rome declined and fell. Somehow they thought they could do what had been done before, but get different results.
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Interesting. And, many Trads think that America was a European “reboot” without Christianity but based on Freemasonic principles of Liberty Equality brotherhood.
Others say that the republican like set up was thoroughly Thomistic. Who knows
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I know several examples of whites who proudly have their kids in the military. Many still don’t get it.
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here’s the existential problem for the current ruling group: as far as I am concerned, America is dead. So I do not care about China, Russia, the ME, etc etc. My preference is for all major US cities to be nuked. I am just “lying flat” waiting for the rubble to stop bouncing. How many are like me, totally indifferent to the fate of this government, or anyone here (outside of close family, and very close friends)? Now that I know how thoroughly pozzed all of the population is here, I can ignore their plight serenely. Hard to rebuild the world when no one will stir themselves no matter how hard you plead, or how many gibmes you spread around.
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I would prefer that they be nuked with neutron bombs…kill the poz without the collateral fallout and environmental damage.
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One trick ponies, and the trick doesn’t work as well as it used to. People will see through it soon enough, before long cynicism will be the default. The world changed, the cause that brought them to power is long gone. They’re finished.
Just a matter of when the inflection point comes. Last one was 30 years or so ago. We’re due for some turnover, maybe overdue. The Trump election and the issues that propelled it say so.
Perhaps then we can start to deal with the end of empire and the demographic disaster.
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Maybe the cause is just ending. Maybe the cause was looting the victors of the Cold War.
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The crisis du jour is indeed just another “look squirrel” distraction to cover for double digit inflation, $5/gal gasoline, and the impending massive expansion of the surveillance state. And, at the root, the only real crisis facing the USA is the cancer residing in DC and various corporate boardrooms & financial institutions. The fish rots from the head.
But the good news is that the cancer cells are still relatively few in numbers, especially as compared to the volume of antibodies that will come into play after the collapse. Ignore the noise, get fit, survive, and train. When the fog rolls in, and the jackboot are fully occupied with riot control, the day of remedy will be upon us.
It’s the only way to be sure.
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The tip off for me that its all lies is the lack of muslim threats today. Why would muslims suddenly stop attacking us? Great essay!
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Because we beat them in a war! Duh. /s
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> Why would muslims suddenly stop attacking us?
Early retirements and employee turnover in Langley.
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Because the FBI and CIA stopped set up the attacks…
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Every time I hear one of my (otherwise) reasonable, right-leaning friends or family members talking about how evil China is, I get thoroughly angry. I do my best to contain that anger, and challenge them on their ideas without sounding philosinotic (is that a proper word?) or unpatriotic, but most people are just too plugged-in to the mainstream, and even if they limit their political views to those espoused by Fox News, they manage to maintain their position on the Republican plantation without ever questioning anything they are told.
I think it is almost instinctual that people need a bogeyman to fear, that’s why we tell our children simplistic stories when they are young to keep them out it trouble. It’s a shame that 90%+ of the American population is in a state of perpetual childhood.
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I think sinophillic is better but yours is funnier.
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Judging from the latest headlines about China’s current energy crisis, I’m wondering if Xi is shortsighted and we’re overestimating him. I certainly hope that’s the case.
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He’s only smart comparatively, which isn’t saying much, “world’s tallest midget” and all that.
People have to excise that patriotism. They are patriotic for a nation that no longer exists and to the extend it does, is run by people who hate them. Their complaints about China are usually retarded anyway, whining about concentration camps and muh freedoms. “They throw their Muslims in concentration camps” and I’m like, and…? We could use a few of these ourselves. Just imagine if our cops could just shoot antifa on sight? Granted, given the state of our countries, they’d probably use that ability to shoot us, but the principle, if not the target, is right.
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I have to say, I welcome our new insect overlords. The Chinese are the most racist people on earth, and they have no problem expressing it — they routinely say stuff about basketball-Americans, for instance, that would cause David Duke to run away screaming. The average Han’s book report on King Leopold’s Ghost would read: “C-. A decent start; needs improvement.” Admittedly it’ll be cold comfort in the labor camps, but I for one am looking forward to asking “How ya like that ‘White supremacy’ now, beeyatch?” to any of them who survive the inevitable shutoff of the gibs pipeline.
It’ll be horrible beyond imagining, for everyone, but… there it is. This is Clown World; take your chuckles where you find them.
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I just say these things when people bring up China or Russia or whoever:
Is China flooding my country with illegal immigrants (I use the word “illegal” so Joe Normie can handle it)?
Is China teaching my kids that their ancestors are terrible?
Is China telling me and my family that we have “white priviledge”?
Is China taxing me so it can give my money to welfare moms?
Is China letting my roads fall apart?
Those questions shut people up pretty quickly.
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I got in a bit of trouble a few years ago when I quipped just a bit too loud in a Pentagon meeting that GPC (Great Power Competition, ie buying a lot of expensive weapons to fight China) seems a bit of a silly exercise when the majority of our antibiotics are made there. When pressed, I pointed out that it seems a bit convenient that GPC exactly lines up with all the expensive military kit the services (especially Navy and AF) have always wanted to buy. I wasn’t so bold as to point out that most senior admirals find themselves on the boards of major Defense contractors within 6 months (to the day) after their retirement (for example, VADM T. Moore, former NAVSEA cdr which buys ships, now works as a VP at HII shipyard).
War College taught that military effort are just one instrument of national power; national power is welded through a number of means, represented by the acronym DIME (diplomatic, information, military, economic). GPC rationales are largely responsible for exploding DoD budgets, but the other areas (D,I,E) don’t appear at all aligned with a China OMG! strategy. So my cynical take (and it’s quite easy to become cynical after multiple Pentagon tours) is that GPC is largely an attempt to justify buying expensive military kit.
The Marine Corps tends to venerate their past leaders in a way the other services do not, Lejeune, Chesty Puller are venerated. But the one obvious biography missing from the USMC Pantheon is Maj Gen Smedley Butler, twice (!) awarded the Medal of Honor, as part of a storied 30+ year career. And the average marine has no idea who he is, and my guess is the reason he was memory-holed was his post-military career primarily involved writing and promoting a pamphlet entitled War Is A Racket, critical of what today we’d call the military-industrial complex.
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One Russian military analyst, whose be I’ve forgotten, once said that, “America makes weapons because it can’t make warriors.” As I’ve gotten older and observed more, I’m inclined to agree.
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The DoD really should be renamed to the DoO, where O is offense. Or perhaps, DoE where E is empire.
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Doof: Department of odious Flounderers.
Evergrande : developer Modern Land (China) cancels US$250 million bond repayment plan on liquidity issues
https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3153095/evergrande-crisis-developer-modern-land-china-cancels
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More China and Evergrande from Jim Chanos: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/jim-chanos-chinas-leveraged-prosperity-model-is-doomed-and-thats-not-the-worst
“The official outlet for the Washington regime promptly put out an essay warning about the threat China now poses. Th point of the essay is to frame the debate over how best to wage the new cold war. ”
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Nonsense – but it’s forgivable. It’s the classic case of the boy that cried, “WOLF!!!” The Dissidents have heard it for decades now, and everything is just peachy, it’s only the Jews and Neocons looking for a new grift.
The old nickel goes that the best trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you that he doesn’t exist. China is doing that right now. Sure the faggots and rapists and degenerate rulers in the Holy City are chitting bricks, and yes, they mean to turn a handsome buck profiteering off the hysteria. I agree with the Dissidents – f**k them.
BUT:
There are honest, reliable patriots in the military, and those guys are chitting bricks too. These are not men given to panic and hysteria. They have been screaming bloody murder for a couple years now. Consider the field of artificial intelligence: the chinks are moving to weaponize it at top speed. They are running national competitions for their best and brightest young minds to recruit them into the effort. Competition is fierce, and the rewards are serious.
The faggots and pacifists here in the tech industries at home flat out refuse to cooperate with the military at all in weaponizing AI and have walked out in protest of the very notion of it.
The military is in huge trouble. They can’t recruit. They need bright kids that don’t do drugs, that are physically fit, and motivated. Given that the latest admiral in the US Navy is a creepy Jewish man in a dress – those kids are avoiding the military like the plague.
Finally – China is buying our leaders. Both Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden dance to chinkish tunes, and no bones about it.
The Dissident that chooses to snooze through the current crisis is looking for a seriously rude awakening…
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no one has mentioned the massive power outages going on in china, so i will. this is greatly interfering with their economy, and the society at large. some people speculate they are using the power somewhere else for a secret project. that is nonsense. but i wonder if some external player is behind all the power problems.
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If foreign policy was conducted in the interest of this country, our State Department would be looking to drive a wedge between the Russians and Chinese. They would be trying to pull Russia into all kinds of economic and maybe even defense agreements with the U.S. and Europe.
I firmly believe all the “Russian Collusion” screaming during Trump’s Administration was orchestrate to prevent Trump from doing exactly that.
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Your point holds, but much of the Russia hoax was conducted by people pissed that their great-grandmothers were raped by Cossacks.
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The elite in the US don’t seem to be running any long term strategy, in any area, at best its all set up to win the election, what will the US look like in 10 years, in 20 ? they don’t seem to care, dementia Joe doesn’t care of course, he can’t remember 10 years ago, so he’s not planning for any kind of future. I think the dissident right are different, we more or less know what we want, how we get there is open to debate, but we have clear goals, success is possible, even if it looks a long way off for now
China and Russia have clear long term goals, and the majority in both countries support these goals, so I would expect success for them long term
10 years from now Belarus will be part of Russia, and maybe a large % of Ukraine, that would make Russia the largest white nation in the world, people in Europe and maybe whites in the US will look to Russia for leadership, on is present path no sane person will look to the US for anything
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Whether or not the hypersonic missiles work, the next war will be lost using very conventional, and proven weapons (Wiki Starfish Prime). Keep in mind what can happen to our electronics. Keep in mind where those electronics are made. Keep in mind that we can’t put a faraday cage over the entire country, and not over our carrier groups either. If people are waiting three months today for some Chevy part over too much printed money last year, just imagine if something like that happened.
Our only way out of this is a combination of tariffs and aggressive on-shoring tax incentives. I’m sure the politicians will chose the other weapons and destroy us. And, yes, we’re keeping the reserve currency for a lot longer than anyone expects. This doesn’t mean that domestic inflation won’t run wild over the coming years.