Posted on 04/20/2020 1:34:29 PM PDT by Maceman
US and China WAR May be Inevitable, As Economy Collapses And Democrats And GOP Fight, War Approaches. The Thucydides Trap says that whenever a rising power moves to displace the existing superpower war is inevitable.
5 years ago The Atlantic wrote that not only was war with the US and China likely it was way more likely than anyone realized. They wrote that something could happen that will cause a cascade affect resulting in total war.
And now many people are bullish on war.
A series of military confrontations, China's attempts to cause us harm during the crisis, the collapse of crude oil prices, and the economic collapse have put the world in the most dangerous position it has been in yet.
Nuclear weapons stand at the ready and no one is willing to back down. As more people in the US, not just Trump but now Democrats and joe Biden, move to blame China it seems that it is only a matter of time when full scare war breaks out.
Or maybe it won't, maybe this is just hype and media sensationalism, maybe the real war will be an information war.
Such as?
Even North Korea was smart enough not to start a nuclear war. I'd presume China is even smarter.
One nice thing about Trump is that he acts a bit crazy. While unsettling for some, crazy people are not often challenged to a fight because they are unpredictable. You can't be sure what they'll do so you stay back and watch them act out.
I watch Tim Pool almost everyday and he's struggling like many people are. In his case, he's a lifelong Democrat and "professional" journalist who has grown contemptful of Democrats and the media. That's the constant theme of his videos.
However, he can't yet bring himself to switch sides. He must be terribly conflicted.
Exactly, however, Trump doesn't want war, he wants fair trade and US jobs.
But if you're China and your goal is domination, then there can't be anything "fair" in your relationships.
Kowtow to China -- that's "fair" in Chi-com eyes.
So Trump is trying to give China an out -- an escape hatch, let them say Covid-19 was all just an "accident", nothing "on purpose" about it, that's what Trump wants.
The problem is that while the Chinese themselves sealed off Wuhan from the rest of China, they were perfectly happy to let tens of thousands of infected Wuhanese fly around the world to infect other countries!
How is that not an intentional act of war?
But Trump wants to let them off the hook, wants to save his trade deal, wants China to say it's all an accident.
Regardless, the Chi-coms won't, they can't, it's not in their nature, it might mean the end of Chi-comism, and besides, they want the world to know who the real shot-callers are, and it ain't Trump, they think.
Bottom line: Wuhan is China's Chernobyl and should help defeat the Chi-com rulers just as Chernobyl did the old Soviets.
Hopefully just as peacefully, but I wouldn't count on that.
Impeachment was the first shot and group the Democrats with the Chicoms!
Economic Self-interests will hopefully prevent a massive, multi-front confrontation, but I do fear some conflict is inevitable.
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I agree but it wont be a military war for the reason you give. But I think that war already started in November of 2016 and is continuing and will probably escalate..
I got one reason and its a real good reason why the big boys are never going to get in a big fight
Nuclear weapons
Do you want another good reason?
Intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple reentry vehicles( ICBMs with MIRVs )
This is why the Soviet union never gotten a big fight with us in the 70s 80s 90s this is why China and the US will never get in a shooting war
Wars between the big boys are all economic
Or one more sublime. One has to wonder how many Easter Eggs are embedded in the chinee made chips that just about everything runs on. Our banking, power grid, communications networks could all be vulnerable.
Where has this been documented? While the video may be worth watching, that statement is as bogus as can be, in my opinion. But perhaps I missed something. Especially the claim that China Quid Pro Joe is blaming China. Like I said I may have missed that tidbit. Lots of information, and the memory banks have reached critical overload, LOL. 8>)
Why?? Really?? For the unprovoked biological warfare attack on the rest of the planet. Because they knew November 19th. They killed their own people to keep it quiet. They kept the airlines going from there to NYC and LA. THEN they advised the world on it in early January. They need nuke’n yesterday.
They caused the deaths of tens of thousand of their own people, crashed their econoy (first quarter Chinese GDP growth was negative 20%) and all that so they could infect some Americansin New York City?
What is the percentage in that?
A popular youtube blogger. (719K subscribers)
“The Thucydides Trap says that whenever a rising power moves to displace the existing superpower war is inevitable.”
Like that world war between the US and UK in the 1950s. Oh, wait, never mind.
Just on the stupidity of this lockdown, it’s destructive effect on the economy and oil going down to pennies a bbl, something as demented and pointless and counterproductive as War seem almost a lock, in it’s ideotic way...
And what would China have to gain by entering into a war with the US?
They would lose their navy. They would lose their industry.
They would lose their largest customer. They would lose hundreds of billions in US debt held.
What exactly would they gain?
People write this stuff without considering the outcome of such a war: Russia becomes the world leader.
On second thought, they should be nuked for TikTok alone.
I, too, have watched Pool’s vids for some time. He is “liberal”, but far more classical liberal than the insane progs that call themselves liberal. He’s honest about how insane the Dems have become, how they have devolved into a lunatic cult and are woefully detached from reality. He attacks the lame stream media, as well. He acknowledges that they carry water for the Dems. He openly states that Trump will likely win in a landslide. That the modern Dem party is completely bankrupt. He is certainly NOT a wild eyed liberal fanatic.
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