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[tim]

The plan is straight outta WWII and is likely NOTHING like what they're really planning. What they're really doing right now is rapidly expanding their nuclear weapons capability in preparation to destroy US facilities in the area and the US mainland if necessary, while surviving a counter/first strike.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html

Long before Adolf Hitler invaded Russia, he clearly stated what he had in mind as it was all in his book Mein Kampf. He simply says Germany will need Russian lands for living space. I'm sure at the time the book was released nobody thought much of it. At one time during WWII Russia and Germany were allied. Germany eventually invaded Russia and everything that Hitler said he wanted in his book eventually was tried.

Here a Chinese general states what will happen in WWII, back in 2005. Why do we not take what he says seriously? This is not the only time the Chinese have said what they are going to do.

China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese general said on Thursday.

“If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,” said General Zhu Chenghu.

Gen Zhu was speaking at a function for foreign journalists organised, in part, by the Chinese government. He added that China's definition of its territory included warships and aircraft.

“If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond,” said Gen Zhu, who is also a professor at China's National Defence University.

“We …will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds …of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”

Gen Zhu is a self-acknowledged “hawk” who has warned that China could strike the US with long-range missiles. But his threat to use nuclear weapons in a conflict over Taiwan is the most specific by a senior Chinese official in nearly a decade.

https://www.ft.com/content/28cfe55a-f4a ... 000e2511c8

[John]

** 03-Jul-2021 World View: Stupidity vs Ignorance

> I really wonder if AOC is as dumb as she portrays herself or
> whether it's an act. She did get a great paying job out of it so I
> wouldn't be surprised.

This is exactly my point. She's intelligent, but uses her
"intelligence" to manipulate people into stupid decisions.

This was clear in that whole Amazon debacle. She was "intelligent"
enough to start shrieking about using that money to build schools, but
she was so stupid that she didn't know that the money wouldn't exist
without Amazon.

This is what I mean. If these people are so stupid that they can't
solve fourth grade percentage math problems, then they're too stupid
to have the ability to make even simple logical deductions, and so
they make disastrous decisions like the Amazon decisions. If AOC had
actually LEARNED something in school, she might have avoided that
stupid decision. Or if other people in her generation were not
equally stupid, they would warned her that she was making a mistake.

And the concern that I'm raising is that the soldiers in the armed
forces are going to be as stupid as AOC, irrespective of their iq.
And in the armed forces, a stupid decision can lead to disaster.

> What you're characterizing as stupidity is mostly ignorance. You
> can't blame someone for not being able to solve calculus equations
> if they've never been trained to do so. I put the blame mostly on
> the public school system. But one thing the military does fairly
> well is training. Being around things that go boom tends to make
> that important. Perhaps ignorance may continue in some things, but
> soldiers tend to be well educated in their actual jobs.

Once again, you're making my point. The reason they're ignorant is
because they don't learn anything in school, and the reason they don't
learn anything in school is because it's considered racist to make
students learn things.

I think back to my days in high school as a young Boomer, and every
course I can remember -- history, algebra, geometry, English, French,
Latin, and so forth -- was a lot of work. Even the "Home Economics"
courses, which were for girls, required actual work. Even study halls
were work, or at least you had to pretend to be working. But what I
see today is that most of these same courses are now a lot of bullshit
so that nobody's feelings will be hurt, and so nobody learns anything.

> The critical race theory stuff is just insane, but keep in mind
> that you're talking about an hour or two in a year with most of
> the victims, I mean participants, forgetting most of it
> immediately afterwards because they don't care about it.

Are you sure that's true? If it is true, then it's a big relief.

My concern is that the Democrats are using it to make sure that there
are no Trump supporters in the army, where they might be "terrorists."

[DaKardii]

Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

[John]

Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

TSMC

[Guest]

Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

If you knew anything about shipping lanes, computer chips, military alliances, or maintaining credibilty then you would understand the importance of Taiwan. Obviously,you don't.

[Guest]

Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

If you knew anything about shipping lanes, computer chips, military alliances, or maintaining credibilty then you would understand the importance of Taiwan. Obviously,you don't.

Dakardii is a pro-CCP shill.

You must be new here.
Welcome to the forum.

[Guest]

Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

If you knew anything about shipping lanes, computer chips, military alliances, or maintaining credibilty then you would understand the importance of Taiwan. Obviously,you don't.

Dakardii is a pro-CCP shill.

You must be new here.
Welcome to the forum.

Dakardii is paid in spring rolls and wonton soup, so he doesn't consider what he does as treachery.

[DaKardii]

Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

TSMC

Are we really that reliant on that one company for semiconductors? If so, that’s a strategic blunder on our part. If we aren’t producing our own, then we must at least diversify our outsources so we’re not too reliant on one country.

[DaKardii]

Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

If you knew anything about shipping lanes, computer chips, military alliances, or maintaining credibilty then you would understand the importance of Taiwan. Obviously,you don't.

Taiwan is not crucial for us navigating the waters of East Asia. There are alternate shipping routes that we can still use even if China takes Taiwan.

As for computer chips, we shouldn’t be too reliant on one country for such important products, if that’s the situation.

We don’t have a defense pact with Taiwan.

And we don’t have much credibility on the world stage, either.

[John]

** 04-Jul-2021 World View: Semiconductors

> Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

> TSMC

> Are we really that reliant on that one company for semiconductors?
> If so, that’s a strategic blunder on our part. If we aren’t
> producing our own, then we must at least diversify our outsources
> so we’re not too reliant on one country.

That would be nice in some fantasyland of the future, but today TSMC
is a critical component in the supply chain for everything from phones
to cars, and so for this and many other reasons, Taiwan is
strategically important to the US and must be defended.