tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8764456308063546823..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Coming Cold War With China Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41692617827055866102019-04-01T09:42:34.140-07:002019-04-01T09:42:34.140-07:00It is with a certain bitter irony that I notice th...It is with a certain bitter irony that I notice that the global establishment has spend the last decades blaming conservative white males for all evil and now expects that same cohort to prepare to shed their blood for the interests of the global establishment. Meanwhile neither Putin, Xi or Trump are advocating for replacement levels of immigration into the Netherlands, while the bureaucrats in Brussels are. Nobody I know is the least bit interested to enlist in order to "save Ukraine from Russian aggression", let alone being shipped off to Asia.<br /><br />China may be a bit brutish in the way it is claiming its place under the sun, but no more so than Western nations used to do until very recently, looking at Libya or Syria here. (As a side note, Brexit will ensure the EUs military capabilities will be weakened beyond parody.)<br /><br />China is currently playing the long game careful enough to wait until the next feckless coward like Barack Obama is elected while slowly using its Belt and Road initiative to place nations under debt slavery to China (as opposed to debt slavery to the world bank).<br /><br />The suggestion that islam can compete in any way, shape or form with China is laughable. Muslim nations have squandered their oil wealth without making any structural investments, while exporting internal friction as terrorism. <br />Freddonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-89597659500290257362019-04-01T09:32:05.960-07:002019-04-01T09:32:05.960-07:00Coming? Seems to me it's here now.Coming? Seems to me it's here now.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-83644676508876930822019-04-01T08:40:04.694-07:002019-04-01T08:40:04.694-07:00"In Cold War I, the launch of the Soviet sate..."In Cold War I, the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957 was the moment America woke up to the red menace. "<br /><br />I don't think that's true at all: America was very concerned about Soviet expansionism from very shortly after the end of WWII...that's why we fought the Korean War and undertook very large defense buildups and programs.<br /><br />What Sputnik was about was the undermining of the smug belief that while the Soviets may have had a lot of land and a lot of people, we pretty much had a lock on scientific and engineering brilliance. Sort of like the way the Zero fighter changed the perception of the Japanese.<br /><br />One effect of Sputnik was the direction of large amounts of federal $$ to the public schools, largely for support of science & math education. It was sort of a headfake, if you look at what has become of those schools since.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38095115154642807962019-04-01T06:59:24.988-07:002019-04-01T06:59:24.988-07:00After America and the West swirl down the drain, t...After America and the West swirl down the drain, the playoff match forever will be between Islam and China. I would pass the popcorn, but I won't be around to see it. sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.com