Looks like they want to actually take on NATO non-diplomatically. Not sure they are quite ready for that, but maybe so.
No. Not yet. This is a phased plan. First, the Soviets (lets call them what they are and have been for decades) will create strong allies in the energy sector so when they are ready to shut off oil to the West, they can.
That doesn’t happen overnight and Israel just so happens to be a strategic buffer to there plans in the way. The Chinese have some economic leverage on the West as well and between oil shut off and China, our economy will be toast for a short time.
Our mental dwarves in Washington whom are just waking up to these facts will bicker over the scraps of budget in the next four years and fleece the Middle Class as tax receipts fall. This happens repeatedly in history. True leadership doesn’t just emerge in a year in an empire like America.
And 45% of our population is on some form of entitlement from government. Those on the dole will hinder restoration of good leadership. Those whom are rich have expatriated, will expatriate and can hide resources. That is always why the visible Middle Class get fleeced in history after an empire overexpands and leadership becomes hedonistic (along with a sizeable portion of it’s population).
North Korea is the big flash point of WWIII and by that point, we’ll then be squaring off against the Russo-China alliance directly. Islam is fodder. The twits in the Middle East will wind up suffering the most from these series of nasty affairs as they should. But they get to laugh at our self-inflicted folly first which really bugs me.
It takes a strong economy to have a strong military. Right now, we would defeat the Russo-China-Islam alliance in a global war. But 3-4 years from now will be a different story.
If we are smart, any large scale terrorist attack should be met with neutron bombs or battlefield nukes to send a very strong message we won’t be playing with the proxies to further drain our resources.
Some will say to me here (and I have heard this before) that our economy can afford anything and I am wrong. These are Washington politicians whom don’t understand economics. If you feel this way, private FR me and I will show you charts, financials and facts of how the Milton Friedman Efficient Market Hyposis has failed. Debt and deficits matter and we are now a debtor nation, beholden to other nations.
If we default which is likely at some point, they join this Russo-China-Islam alliance. There are solutions but like most empires, we overstretched and hedonism began destroying our culture. Similar set of affairs occured in 1929-1945 but now with nukes involved. It ends with a victory, but about 1/3 of mankind goes prematurely. And that this nation allowed it to happen so quickly from 1992 to 2008 is very disturbing indeed.