Well then, we better gear up for yet another world war, eh?
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Yeah pretty much. In order to have peace you have to prepare for war. That’s the way its always worked.
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If we’re clever we could form some sort of alliance, or send over a bunch of bitter singletons to marry and thus placate the horny Chinese men in the military.
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The alliances are already in place. What would you do ally with the Chinese against the Japanese? That would defeat the Japanese and further embolden the Chinese and redraw the line of confrontation with China further out in the Pacific. Basically you’re looking at a replay of the 1920’s and 1030’s only this time instead of Japan playing the role of the aggressor—China is doing that job.
There’s no placating the Chinese. They have power for the first time in centuries and they mean to use it.
The Chinese can be stopped. The sooner they are stopped in their Pacific expansion, the better for everyone—including the Chinese because any successful battles will give the PLA and PLAN the upper hand in the Chinese government. Then there would be no choice but war. Same thing happened in Japan. Early victories by the military gave the military the upper hand and finally full control over the government. Since the only thing the military knows how to do is wage war. Japan waged war.
Same scenario is in the works if the Chinese Navy is allowed success.
Yeah I know; this is why I’m thankful the Constitution we have makes our military subordinate and publicly apolitical.
Thing is, that the Chinese are almost satanically clever and will use bio-warfare and chemical warfare if possible.
There has to be some way to create a triple alliance with Japan and China, with the US in the center of it all. It would be a perfect way of making the US powerful while at the same time, at least publicly binding the Chinese and Japanese to a peaceful accord.