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To: Poohbah; Paul Ross; Orion78; Jeff Head; swarthyguy; DarkWaters; lavaroise; HighRoadToChina
As always, it is the combined munitions and platforms (be they ballastic, cruise or other) of the Axis which must be reckoned with. The fake Sino - Russian split notwithstanding (and Henry da K now inducted into PT Barnum's Suckers' Hall of Fame) what we face is a much more robust version of the Molotov - Ribbentrop assemblage. But this time there will be no backstabbing, at least not until AFTER the West has been destroyed, or, somehow made a miracle recovery in the midst of the most destructive war ever to confront mankind.
11 posted on 07/07/2003 7:40:03 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Un-PC even to "Conservatives!" - Right makes right)
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To: belmont_mark; hchutch
As always, it is the combined munitions and platforms (be they ballastic, cruise or other) of the Axis which must be reckoned with.

No--you first have to demonstrate that this Axis is real, and that each player is REALLY willing to court national suicide to support the other guy's nuclear strike.

That aside, kindly explain to me a coherent theory of victory for this "Axis."

The fake Sino - Russian split notwithstanding (and Henry da K now inducted into PT Barnum's Suckers' Hall of Fame) what we face is a much more robust version of the Molotov - Ribbentrop assemblage.

Lots of arm-waving. No verifiable fact.

Mind PROVING that the split is fake?

But this time there will be no backstabbing, at least not until AFTER the West has been destroyed, or, somehow made a miracle recovery in the midst of the most destructive war ever to confront mankind.

Even more arm-waving, and still no verifiable fact.

Please provide a convincing argument that the above assertion is, in fact, true.

China and Russia have VERY different interests. Among other things, China still refers to Siberia as "stolen territory," and they've had damn near 400 years to get over it. (And we thought the neo-Confederates on this board kept a grudge!)

Also, China is presently engaged in a slow-motion invasion of Siberia. At some point in the not-distant future (hint: think birth rates), Russia will have two choices: (a) meekly accede to a Chinese annexation of the richest stockpile of minerals and lumber left on the globe, or (b) get snippy about it and turn most of Manchuria into a radioactive slag heap.

I don't see (a) as an option.

12 posted on 07/07/2003 8:13:17 PM PDT by Poohbah (I must be all here, because I'm not all there!)
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