Posted on 01/04/2019 2:07:25 AM PST by familyop
Probably not.
However, if the combat arms were as diverse as they are today we would have surrendered without a shot being fired.
The combat arms that defeated Germany and Japan were ethnically homogeneous, and religiously nearly so.
That all depends.
History is littered with countries who thought the same -- note post #7 above.
On the other hand, Americans have little enthusiasm for spilling our own blood to prop up two-bit tin-horn dictators, even when the alternatives are worse.
We like to be the good guys allied to good guys.
When you act like bad guys, it won't go well for you.
“This is not 1941. Half the country & most of the major institutions are anti-American”
Easy marks, they go first. Take down Facebook, then Harvard. All others will see the light real quick.
Do you feel lucky, punk?
Explosions “resolve tension”.
Yep. Light it up like it was the 4th of July! To the Admiral I'd say, it's your move a$$hat!
Chineese economy is slowing waaay down.
This is rhetoric to distract the Chineese population as they get laid off as a result of our tarriffs.
Stupid is as stupid does?
Is this guy for real? He’s begging for WWIII
Of course we would. We wiped islam off the face of the earth after 9/11, didn't we?
Someone should tell this guy it will actually resolve some of China’s over population problems.
Message to Chinese Admiral: The Japanese tried a similar tactic and it did not work out too well for them. Be a student of history so you don’t repeat it.
Where did China find three Georges noteworthy enough to name a dam after?
“Why are the same news stories getting recycled......”
I feel because they are out of earth shattering news to try to make people forget about things like Clinton’s loss, the Kavanaugh incident, the protection of DACA, Clinton’s email accounts......the list goes on. But the media and its sensationalism at a driving pace has been the main tool to quiet the natives if they get restless and the libs haven’t been winning hardly anything but time since Trump was elected. Smoke and mirrors. Scare the voters into compliance from that fear. Then the libs in time can come up with something they can ride the white horse into, small or large. And they will “milk” it indefinitely. Playbook.
rwood
And yet we continue to trade with a self-avowed enemy. How stupid is that?
We were an industrial giant in that time. We gave all of that away to Asia.
Rednecks vs. Chinese.
I bet on the rednecks
We got skeered by the social implications of domestic bargain products. When it’s happening overseas out of our view, we don’t care as much.
“...we will utterly destroy them...”
After that, of course, there’ll be less tension.
The Japanese thought that too.
Maybe his real goal is to “modernize” his Navy by having to build all new ships after the current ones get sunk.
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