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America and Its Allies are Unprepared for the Next Great War
nationalinterest.org ^ | 05-08-2021 | dakota wood

Posted on 05/09/2021 9:00:18 AM PDT by em2vn

Do the Biden administration and the Democratic majority in Congress believe that America’s major competitors are willing to wait for the United States to sort out its domestic problems before ensuring the country has a military capable of defending its interests? That’s the impression one gets from following the money.

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To: RideForever

Rule 3: The Chinese will put whoever wins into the extermination camps of the depleted Uighurs.


41 posted on 05/09/2021 9:43:25 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Jim W N; Empire_of_Liberty

Part of Germany’s problem was that they bit off more than they could chew. They got involved in multi-front wars when that wasn’t really necessary. And America is kinda doing the same thing today. We’ve just got to be involved everywhere, all the time.

If you had told George Washington that someday American soldiers would be fighting in Baghdad, he would have thought that you were insane.


42 posted on 05/09/2021 9:44:57 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

> You seriously believe that Biden is making any decisions? It’s either Obama or the Chicoms. <

Agreed. Biden is just a puppet, a poorly-programmed mouthpiece.


43 posted on 05/09/2021 9:46:37 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: em2vn

unprepared because the demo rats want it this way


44 posted on 05/09/2021 9:47:11 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“We are ready to re-fight World War Two”

Not ready to do that, either. The US has no manufactring capacity for that many combat boots.


45 posted on 05/09/2021 9:49:12 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: TalBlack

“Without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5.

As we must, we have many cooperating with God to reverse the stolen election! (See, for example, the Arizona audit.) But since no Presidential election has been reversed before, we should regard any such event as a Divine miracle!!!!


46 posted on 05/09/2021 9:49:43 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: em2vn

This is 2021 and not 1940.

Great wars are incompatible with continued human survival.

Taiwan can only maintain its independence by a nuclear deterrent of its own. This should be well known in DC, Taipei and hopefully Beijing.

Chinese expansionism needs to be controlled by the Japanese-style method of moving production out of China.


47 posted on 05/09/2021 9:50:18 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: The Antiyuppie

> Not ready to do that, either. The US has no manufacturing capacity for that many combat boots. <

That’s an important point. I grew up close to a steel mill that rolled steel for WW 2 ships and tanks. The whole place was torn down. So it’s not like you can fire up that mill again tomorrow.


48 posted on 05/09/2021 9:54:52 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: USAF1985
Iran is notable for wanting to use them as a first-ditch move, so to speak.
49 posted on 05/09/2021 10:00:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: corkoman

We didn’t have a sizable “woke” population back then, with “transgender” types insistent on populating our military.


50 posted on 05/09/2021 10:02:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: RideForever

Islam is being hollowed out by younger generations who are exposed to the Internet and some very effective polemics that are widely available.

Many young Muslims, in the west particularly, are just going through the motions of being Islamic, pretending, in order to satisfy their parents or broader community.

Muslim leaders throughout the World are well aware of this.

There are huge peer pressures on Muslims to remain in the faith and that includes Death for Blasphemy and Apostasy.

It’s literally a CULT.

I generally agree with your assessment of the “Rules of Engagement for the Next World War”

I also believe that there will be an interim period in which the Left in the West, the Marxist, will align with the Islamists against their common enemy which is US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD9XiJvRDSQ&t=129s


51 posted on 05/09/2021 10:05:18 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: PIF

Depending on how you count them, there are two, three, or more varieties of Muslim. The problem with the nuke them all and let God sort strategy them out is, it lacks the fine, but critical gradations with which they see themselves. Not covered by the media there are significant Muslims who are as much endangered by what we call radical Islam as we are. I’d like to point out that the west has no competing theology and is fractured and incapable of mounting the sustained effort that must follow to ensure success. There are 1.5 billion Muslims, quite a few of which are voters in the Western world. Imagining a conflict where the opponent does what you need him to is a losing strategy.


52 posted on 05/09/2021 10:15:25 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Soul of the South
"Modern war (as WWII proved) also requires significant industrial infrastructure and economic self sufficiency (food, manufacturing), a united population willing to sacrifice for the common good, and superb leadership."

I would add the benefit of an isolated geography. Yet will future war be fought on the land, sea, and air? Will the next war be fought in cyberspace? Military strategists oftem make mistakes by planning for yesterday's war.

53 posted on 05/09/2021 10:19:27 AM PDT by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Nobody is ready for what will come soon, in a few decades IMO - Worldwide Islamic Supremacy (WIS).

Believers in Christ will be gone - in fact WIS will be launched by the departure of the saints from the earth (the great “catching up” (1 Thess. 4:17) AKA the rapture of the church).

Even Muslims will be shocked because the spirit of antichrist will be in full swing driving them to do things they would not ordinarily do as the “Twelfth Imam” (the beast) rises to power.

That will be Satan’s time, used by God to judge the world that has rejected the Christ who died for them, and to bring in Christ’s 1000 year rulership as the Prince of Peace.


54 posted on 05/09/2021 10:19:56 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: buckalfa
Will the next war be fought in cyberspace?

And weapons won't be bullets or bombs, but viruses, as we have clearly seen.

55 posted on 05/09/2021 10:21:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: USAF1985

I want to see what a couple dozen MOABs would do to Terran.

I’d betcha they’d be crowd pleasers.


56 posted on 05/09/2021 10:21:34 AM PDT by Beagle8U ("Jim Acosta pissed in the shallow end of the press pool.")
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To: Jim W N
That will be Satan’s time,

The entire 20th Century and the 21st Century so far has been Satan's time.

57 posted on 05/09/2021 10:23:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

NOTHING compared to what is coming after the saints and the restraint of the Holy Spirit depart from the earth.


58 posted on 05/09/2021 10:25:51 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Gen.Blather

All muslims, everywhere, of all sects, all depend on the superiority of their Allah over all other gods. Allah determines everything down to the atomic level. To utterly destroy their most holy places, utterly defeats the central tenants of Islam - in effect humiliating their central beliefs, leaving them without Allah who allowed himself, as embodied by the Kabbalah, to be destroyed by what they all believed to be lesser gods (Allahu Akbar - my God is greater then your god).

Shortly after 911 and group of jihadis in Afghanistan were asked the question above, and replied they would all convert to Judaism, Christianity or become atheists.


59 posted on 05/09/2021 10:27:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Leaning Right

There was a live steel mill IN BROOKLYN producing steel for the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Today? It would be contributing to the Climate Emergency.


60 posted on 05/09/2021 10:29:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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