Posted on 10/09/2018 10:25:47 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Those were mountain troops (the ones with tanks and heavy weapons firing continuously for 48 hours with armor piecing rounds) in conjunction with the CCCP.
I’ll take two to go.
China and Iran :)
Too bad Trump wasn’t in power when the young Iranians made their move.
Cause Obama WANTED them to die and fail.
Wow.
Thanks for the insight.
I would think that if Christian numbers rise very sharply through the years, the communists will lose their grip more and more.
Or just kill a lot of Christians!!
Communism’s kinda hard to get rid of.
I still don’t get why the USSR fell.
Sure they were broke and afraid from trying to keep up with Star Wars defense, but North Korea is MUCH MORE broke and isolated than the USSR was at that point, and communism ain’t going anywhere soon over there.
Funny thing is, democracy is easier to get rid of. If the people voted for communism. Ironic.
“Regular army units were used at Tiananmen Square”
In the strict sense, China has no “Regular Army.” The People’s Liberation Army is an arm of, and answers solely to the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party. The governmental Ministry of Defense is a veneer, much like the government itself, used by the PLA to deal with foreign militaries.
They are, more or less, equivalent of the Nazi Waffen SS, on a much larger scale.
Good for the Chinese veterans...
Communism is an attempt to do by world philosophy what the Lord wanted done in a church focused manner by gospel philosophy. I’ve insisted for years that we must see a wave of gospel faith if these manmade substitutes are to be swept away. It was because of the Polish church’s faith that Solidarnosc worked.
[In the strict sense, China has no “Regular Army.” The People’s Liberation Army is an arm of, and answers solely to the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party. The governmental Ministry of Defense is a veneer, much like the government itself, used by the PLA to deal with foreign militaries.
They are, more or less, equivalent of the Nazi Waffen SS, on a much larger scale.]
The theory part relates to the fact each commander views his unit as *his* army, pretty much the way every military commander in Chinese history has had a proprietary view vis-a-vis the men under his command. As is the case elsewhere, Chinese strategic thought emphasizes learning the lessons of history. Chinese history, while distorted by its historians’ tendency towards homily, is fairly good about detailing the major players and their interactions in any given time period even 1000 years before China’s unification.
What won’t have escaped the attention of attentive military commanders is the way in which many of China’s emperors are derived from ranks of military men who had sworn allegiance to the former dynasty, yet seized upon the first opportunity available to topple that dynasty. In some cases, they acted as regents similar to Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate. In others, they killed the emperor outright.
What’s more, this knowledge is part of the popular culture, in the form of elaborate costume dramas that are broadcast on Chinese TV every evening. These ancient machinations aren’t just buried in dusty tomes in some remote library - they are unavoidable in today’s China, whether through prime time TV programs, historical documentaries, hefty historical works in book stores and even in the historical romances (in the literary sense) that comprise two of China’s great works of literature - The Water Margin and The Three Kingdoms.
Re the Water Margin and the Three Kingdoms, Mao said these were practically how-to manuals to him. I expect he meant in the sense of how to scheme and back-stab your way to the top, and fend off all challengers once you get there. Mao’s peers and near-peers thought the Communist Revolution heralded a new era of fraternal feelings among fellow travelers on the road towards socialism. Whereas Mao was fully-committed to yet another cycle of the deadly millennia-old court intrigues revolving around the dragon throne. In retrospect, it’s not entirely surprising that he won hands down.
I’ve always wondered what Jesus would think about capitalism.
He did say that thing about giving to Caesar what is Caesar’s.
So he must have understood that we have to live in this world too.
I guess making a profit as long as you helped others also would be ok in his book.
but i dont know :)
BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor.
SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor’s money to the poor
The term “capitalism” was invented by Marx as a way of damning the ordinary system of markets by presupposing that it had to be obsessed with materialism (and then by setting up a class war as the cure that is worse than the illness). The good Lord would surely tell us that markets are just fine (I sometimes wonder if Cain and Abel could have come to peace by trading in what they needed, rather than fighting), but never to let wealth be made into your god.
(while sitting on your own)
YES! Thanks for completing it for me!
Boy you’re one well educated SOB!!!!
That’s a compliment. Sorry if it’s not taken as one :(
SOG Son of a gun is better :)
Sometimes i come to this board and am utterly shell shocked by how much more knowledgeable some folks are than me on this board.
It’s humbling, which can sometimes be a good thing :)
Anybody who reviews the bible enough and is willing to go along with its premises, can grasp this stuff in the head. That last few inches into the heart, however, can be the worst struggle of all, and I sure know it myself. Don’t worry about comparing yourself to anything but what God wants you to be... believe me, having a near genius brain is to have something that can be a real devil’s playground if one isn’t careful. And for many decades I was not careful.
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