President Xi Jinping plans military action by October just before the US presidential election to meet his deadline to complete reunification with Taiwan shortly after the CCP's 75th anniversary.
Let's hope some of this "ice water" wakes up those in power who can still turn this mess around! They need something to shock them into reality.
David Pyne has a way of being blunt and telling it like it is. Maybe David's most recent book should be mandatory reading for all NATO members. There is no room for ignorance in these difficult times and knowledge is power as they say.
It's time we in North America accepted the limited options before us and acted accordingly.
I'd be surprised if they waited until October to invade, as this date is now out in the open, but makes perfect sense with the timing of the US election.
I think even more these days, about how we are being sized up by our adversaries. Especially when they turn on their tv's and see our Generals and high ranking officers, blubber on and on about the importance of using proper "Gender Pronouns" and its importance in our military.
That's an excellent idea to make my book mandatory reading for senior NATO political and military leaders so they would understand the real threats that Russia and China and the need to avoid provoking them to attack us. Yes I think out enemies think the US had become a total joke with our woke Marxist Trans indoctrination of our military.
Whew! Well that was a bucket of ice water down the front. If there are to be any land grabs anywhere now is the time for any wannabe tinpots to do it. Haven’t watched FNC since they booted Tucker Carlson; is commentator/author Gordon Chang in the same camp? From what I remember he’s been sounding alarm bells for some time now.
Thing is though, an invasion of this scale would require massive assembly areas a’la Operation Overlord; wouldn’t those be detectable via satellite imagery well before any take down/EMP attack?
Moreover, what about the public reaction to such potential high losses? A Nimitz-class carrier like the USS Ronald Reagan has a compliment of about 5000. Add in the loss of a few escort ships & you’re quickly knocking on the door of 10,000 lives lost in a possible very short span of time. The last time this country saw that level of casualties was during The War Between the States. To say the public would be shocked I think is a terrible understatement. For quite some time now the U.S. has been cruising “”easy street”, engaging in gunboat diplomacy & lobbing munitions @ groups & countries that had no way to fight back. Can’t see the American public being able to handle this @ all.
My point is that China doesn't need to invade Taiwan to get it to surrender. It just has to blockade it. COL John Mills said that Taiwan could only last two weeks before it would be forced to capitulate without US assistance. At most, it would be three months. I enjoying Gordon Chang's commentary but he is much too optimistic as he believes we could successfully fight and win a war against China without worrying about them escalating to the nuclear level, not surprising for someone who wrote a book entitled "The Coming Collapse of China" two decades ago given China's breathtaking rise to become the world's leading superpower. since he wrote that book. If China did opt to invade Taiwan we would have a week's warning or so for the reason you suggest. You're right we could lose double the number of troops we lost in two decades of war in the Middle East in 24-48 hours of intense conventional warfare in South Korea, Japan and the South China Sea.
There is no good reason for thr US to have 300 troops in Taiwan. They do nothing to deter a Chinese attack and are at best nothing more than a nuclear tripwire. If we negotiated peace with the PRC we could get them back but if we fight them we will lose thousands of POWs snd never see them again just like China never gave back the 5,000 POWs we lost in the Korean War. We need to pull them out of Taiwan immediately.
Chinese people these day no longer have to flee China; they can just leave the country, as Guo Wengui did. China will do jack re Taiwan. Neither the 75th anniversary nor the factually actually unimportant US elections (they will not change anything) will serve as reason for anything.
China will feel the need to act, should Taiwan start serious discussions re independence or decide to host even more US military personnel. At some stage in the future will seek a stronger formalisation of Taiwan's integration within China, but this is not now.
It was the US that prevented a rectification of China with Taiwan through nuclear threats, and that in an era when Taiwan was not remotely democratic, but one of the many brutal dictatorships they maintained. The US is also in breach of numerous agreements with China re Taiwan - but then, the US sticking to treaties would be a novel concept.
The US may pay attention: neither China nor Russia find it acceptable anymore to live under the US. When the US or their underlings strike their territory, they will strike the US. They can do that.
Maybe it is more challenging to develop scenarios how the US can gain independence from a minor, genocidal country - or how the US could be reformed at all. How the immiseration of ever wider parts of the populace could be stopped without resorting to ever more extreme capitalism which only achieves the opposite.
The US today is best described by a vote in the UN General Assembly on December 13 last year: USA, Israel, Nauru and Marshall Islands on one side, the rest of the world on the other side. The dregs.
Let's hope some of this "ice water" wakes up those in power who can still turn this mess around! They need something to shock them into reality.
David Pyne has a way of being blunt and telling it like it is. Maybe David's most recent book should be mandatory reading for all NATO members. There is no room for ignorance in these difficult times and knowledge is power as they say.
It's time we in North America accepted the limited options before us and acted accordingly.
I'd be surprised if they waited until October to invade, as this date is now out in the open, but makes perfect sense with the timing of the US election.
I think even more these days, about how we are being sized up by our adversaries. Especially when they turn on their tv's and see our Generals and high ranking officers, blubber on and on about the importance of using proper "Gender Pronouns" and its importance in our military.
Lord help us.
That's an excellent idea to make my book mandatory reading for senior NATO political and military leaders so they would understand the real threats that Russia and China and the need to avoid provoking them to attack us. Yes I think out enemies think the US had become a total joke with our woke Marxist Trans indoctrination of our military.
Whew! Well that was a bucket of ice water down the front. If there are to be any land grabs anywhere now is the time for any wannabe tinpots to do it. Haven’t watched FNC since they booted Tucker Carlson; is commentator/author Gordon Chang in the same camp? From what I remember he’s been sounding alarm bells for some time now.
Thing is though, an invasion of this scale would require massive assembly areas a’la Operation Overlord; wouldn’t those be detectable via satellite imagery well before any take down/EMP attack?
Moreover, what about the public reaction to such potential high losses? A Nimitz-class carrier like the USS Ronald Reagan has a compliment of about 5000. Add in the loss of a few escort ships & you’re quickly knocking on the door of 10,000 lives lost in a possible very short span of time. The last time this country saw that level of casualties was during The War Between the States. To say the public would be shocked I think is a terrible understatement. For quite some time now the U.S. has been cruising “”easy street”, engaging in gunboat diplomacy & lobbing munitions @ groups & countries that had no way to fight back. Can’t see the American public being able to handle this @ all.
My point is that China doesn't need to invade Taiwan to get it to surrender. It just has to blockade it. COL John Mills said that Taiwan could only last two weeks before it would be forced to capitulate without US assistance. At most, it would be three months. I enjoying Gordon Chang's commentary but he is much too optimistic as he believes we could successfully fight and win a war against China without worrying about them escalating to the nuclear level, not surprising for someone who wrote a book entitled "The Coming Collapse of China" two decades ago given China's breathtaking rise to become the world's leading superpower. since he wrote that book. If China did opt to invade Taiwan we would have a week's warning or so for the reason you suggest. You're right we could lose double the number of troops we lost in two decades of war in the Middle East in 24-48 hours of intense conventional warfare in South Korea, Japan and the South China Sea.
Why is the US there in the 1st place...............Taiwan chips!
There is no good reason for thr US to have 300 troops in Taiwan. They do nothing to deter a Chinese attack and are at best nothing more than a nuclear tripwire. If we negotiated peace with the PRC we could get them back but if we fight them we will lose thousands of POWs snd never see them again just like China never gave back the 5,000 POWs we lost in the Korean War. We need to pull them out of Taiwan immediately.
I agree.
When is the US going to stop all these wars?
Never unless Trump wins.
NOT sure about that........
Why is the US there anyway?
Stay in your own country and provide people with good healthcare and education and housing.
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Chinese people these day no longer have to flee China; they can just leave the country, as Guo Wengui did. China will do jack re Taiwan. Neither the 75th anniversary nor the factually actually unimportant US elections (they will not change anything) will serve as reason for anything.
China will feel the need to act, should Taiwan start serious discussions re independence or decide to host even more US military personnel. At some stage in the future will seek a stronger formalisation of Taiwan's integration within China, but this is not now.
It was the US that prevented a rectification of China with Taiwan through nuclear threats, and that in an era when Taiwan was not remotely democratic, but one of the many brutal dictatorships they maintained. The US is also in breach of numerous agreements with China re Taiwan - but then, the US sticking to treaties would be a novel concept.
The US may pay attention: neither China nor Russia find it acceptable anymore to live under the US. When the US or their underlings strike their territory, they will strike the US. They can do that.
Maybe it is more challenging to develop scenarios how the US can gain independence from a minor, genocidal country - or how the US could be reformed at all. How the immiseration of ever wider parts of the populace could be stopped without resorting to ever more extreme capitalism which only achieves the opposite.
The US today is best described by a vote in the UN General Assembly on December 13 last year: USA, Israel, Nauru and Marshall Islands on one side, the rest of the world on the other side. The dregs.