If combined with the implementation of peace agreements with Russia and North Korea and strengthening our strategic nuclear deterrent, the US and its treaty allies would be much safer and more secure
The best strategy is to adopt a neutralist foreign policy and neutralist ethos in our dealings with Russia, China and other nations. That is unless you believe the Russians and Chinese are interested in crossing oceans to get at us. Bring the military home and stop the imperialism.
Let us remember the words of the long serving early 20th Century French ambassador to the US, Jean-Jules Jusserand, who observed that distant powers could not easily threaten the US because "on the north, she has a weak neighbor; on the south, another weak neighbor; on the east fish and on the west, fish".
It is a minute before the midnight of an EMP attack on the United States. If we do not harden our electrical grid and build a shield of anti ballistic missile interceptors, 90% of Americans will die after an EMP attack by one or more of our self-declared enemies -- no matter which one we manage to attack.
What if China isn't so much interested in "having" Taiwan as it is in "taking" it? With the military buildup, I wonder if they want a fight to flex/show off their new military muscles. As you said, they have built a huge military and ballistic missile programs. But they have zero fighting experience and their gear is untested in battle. I suspect they want to take everything for a test drive. What better time then with the US expending money and material in Ukraine?
Would not Taiwan just destroy the 3 Gorges Dam in response to an attack? So China, in typical communist manner, thinks "the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million a mere statistic," but concommittant to this loss of tens of millions, ***they would also lose their industrial heartland, power generation, etc.***
What do you know about this counter threat to 3 Gorges?
And re, all their calculations that they would take out the US military, maybe so. Of course, we'll have our LGBT helicopter crews to protect us... But, in war, the incalculable always happens... Or as I Kings 20 says , 'Let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off. ' ”
The best strategy is to adopt a neutralist foreign policy and neutralist ethos in our dealings with Russia, China and other nations. That is unless you believe the Russians and Chinese are interested in crossing oceans to get at us. Bring the military home and stop the imperialism.
Let us remember the words of the long serving early 20th Century French ambassador to the US, Jean-Jules Jusserand, who observed that distant powers could not easily threaten the US because "on the north, she has a weak neighbor; on the south, another weak neighbor; on the east fish and on the west, fish".
It is a minute before the midnight of an EMP attack on the United States. If we do not harden our electrical grid and build a shield of anti ballistic missile interceptors, 90% of Americans will die after an EMP attack by one or more of our self-declared enemies -- no matter which one we manage to attack.
Watched Biden's speech at the G20. Enough said.
Please throw your hat in the ring and run for President David Pyne.
We are running out of time.
What if China isn't so much interested in "having" Taiwan as it is in "taking" it? With the military buildup, I wonder if they want a fight to flex/show off their new military muscles. As you said, they have built a huge military and ballistic missile programs. But they have zero fighting experience and their gear is untested in battle. I suspect they want to take everything for a test drive. What better time then with the US expending money and material in Ukraine?
Would not Taiwan just destroy the 3 Gorges Dam in response to an attack? So China, in typical communist manner, thinks "the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million a mere statistic," but concommittant to this loss of tens of millions, ***they would also lose their industrial heartland, power generation, etc.***
What do you know about this counter threat to 3 Gorges?
And re, all their calculations that they would take out the US military, maybe so. Of course, we'll have our LGBT helicopter crews to protect us... But, in war, the incalculable always happens... Or as I Kings 20 says , 'Let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off. ' ”
Who started this shit? Nuclear bombs and weapons.
I certainly have no doubt other country's would have found the same eventually.
YOU pay for what you did.