US Warhawks Want to Take on China?
Wait until China starts slapping sanctions onto this country!
Face it, the United States of America is governed by morons. Aggressive, bullying, inept morons. These are the geniuses who have managed to mire us in a proxy war with a country that has more nukes than we do (nice work, Biden, et al.) and are now bleating about “protecting” Taiwan from the Chinese.
Give me a break.
First, a word of warning to the Taiwanese — just in case you haven’t been paying attention to what happens to countries the U.S. “helps” — run TF away from any offered assistance from the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
If you don’t believe me, take a quick look at Ukraine right now. See how much we’re helping them?
Ok, public service rendered. Back to you, my chubby happy wearables-wearing fellow Americans. Take a look around you. See all that cool stuff you’ve accumulated over your years of being a good American consumer? Care to take a conservative guess at how much of it you can kiss good-bye the minute China has had enough of this country’s nonsense.
Might be time to trade in that six-month old i-Phone because I can guarantee that anyone who has lived in this country more than five years is not going to sign up to work in a factory in Idaho (where there’s enough room for stadium-sized factories) to assemble electronics. Not going to happen. The planned de-industrialization of this country is not going to be undone easily.
The U.S. of A. has been bullying other nations around for decades. If I was the boss of just about any other country on the planet, I’d be having quiet conversations with my fellow bosses.
In fact, I’ll bet there are some interesting conversations that have been going on for a while now and in some places they’re getting rather intense.
So, before we all start slapping that other red, white, and blue on our social media platforms and looking for Bono, Paul McCartney, and Pink to rev up the Rock Concert machine (Lviv Aid, anyone?), let’s pause and consider soberly just what we’d be bending over and asking for, hmmmm?
Sure, sure. The geniuses in charge are busy figuring out how to keep us in smartphones and oculi, but have they thought about Easter grass? No, I’m sure they haven’t.
Have you?
What about practically every dish or pan in your kitchen? Small appliances? That espresso maker you feel your life would be incomplete without? You may want to reconsider those seasonal redecoration kicks you’re so fond of there, Marge.
With supply chain issues already keeping shelves empty and forcing new homeowners to settle for the dove-grey sectional — the morning magenta is on back order and is unlikely to be available for another six months — let’s all take a deep breath. Now we need to consider and then reconsider our long-ingrained habits of consumption.
Ready for the Big Picture of what China is exporting to this country? Sitting down?
China Exports to United States - 2023 Data 2024 Forecast 1992-2021 Historical
And so far, we’re just talking about stuff. True, the consumers of this country get inordinately cranky with anything that comes between them and their stuff, but there’s much worse hovering just on the other side of all the indignation our government is spouting to rev us up for More War.
This piece in The Paper of Record caught my attention and you may want to give it a quick scan because Mr. Ross Babbage seems to know what he’s talking about.
If nothing else, this should give the most ardent armchair soldier pause:
“U.S. citizens have grown accustomed to sending their military off to fight far from home. But China is a different kind of foe — a military, economic and technological power capable of making a war felt in the American homeland.”
And, no Randy, we’re not talking i-Phones anymore. This is what we’re going to suddenly find ourselves running short of:
“Critically, the United States is no longer able to outproduce China in advanced weapons and other supplies needed in a war, which the current one in Ukraine has made clear.”
In case you and Randy and all the other patriots out there didn’t get the memo, The United States isn’t The Greatest Nation on Earth (and it never was). It did, however, have a couple of decades where it had the biggest hammer. You know what the old folks say, when the only tool you have is a hammer all your problems seem to be nails. Having The Greatest Military The World Has Ever Known while not having the capability to supply that military should wake some hammer-handlers up. Should, but not necessarily will.
50+ years of watching the hammer-handlers in action doesn’t give me much confidence that they’ll wake up in time. And let’s remember that the Chinese never said, “May you live in interesting times”.
But they might be thinking that right now. What are you thinking?
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Wonder how the USofA would respond if Russia and China were encircling it with military bases?
Reading this I've grown a big smile on my face. Not because all the war-related issues you write about are anything to smile about. Obviously that all makes me sad, and angry. Your writing though, the understanding you have - that makes me smile every time.
Got it right again Tammy.
Keep on keeping on sista.
Sadie x