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China's Navy and Air Force are no match to ours. It's not even close. I have seen their first Aircraft Carrier, the Liaoning, docked in the port in Dalian many times, with it's silly Russian ski jump front end. 2019 was the last time I was there. They do not have the ability or experience in protecting force. They have never even won a war fought on Chinese land - losing to the Mogols, Japan, and others in the past. China is a nuclear power, so that tends to mean we cannot get into a shooting war with then, at least not directly. The Taiwanese are smart enough to tell China that any invasion will result in destruction of the chip fabs, leaving China with nothing of value. You don't even have to destroy them, just contaminate the clean rooms with outside air and they will be useless for a LONG time. The scenario that concerns me is a US carrier battle group off Taiwan in international waters as a show of US presence. US Naval doctrine for the last 75 years or so is that our carriers are invulnerable, with constant air, surface, and sub defenses surrounding them. IF China really has hypersonic missiles that can sink one of our carriers in this scenario, Biden will have to decide if the US will retaliate against such an act of war, or if the battle group will slink back home in defeat. But that's a big "if". Don't ever forget that China has a shit ton of media and social media trolls posting propaganda everywhere. I tend not to believe claims of any superior military technology or capability. ALSO, I am waiting to see the true effects of the chip sanctions. The rule puts chip technology that can be used for AI or advanced military applications under ITAR. That means you need to apply for a license to export equipment or technology that could be used for such purposes, and the government decides if you area allowed or not. It does not appear to apply to less advanced chips made using older technology. And with the Biden administration deciding who can export or not, there is a ton of potential for licenses to be given to political favorites and contributors. Hate to think this way, but if we've learned anything about Biden's band of morons - they do nothing of substance, but talk up useless shit like it's gold. A few million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves that will have minimal if any effect on gas prices. Banning "ghost guns" based on the lie that they are used in crimes often (police officers I've met say the've never confiscated a Polymer 80), and so on. Now they can pick and choose which companies can export to whom, just like they are trying to do with "Green Energy". | |||
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Now, as for Ukraine - why did the U.S. dangle the carrot of NATO membership for so long but never let Ukraine in? If the truth ever comes out it is likely that our politicians - mostly democrats but probably some RHINO's too - were extorting money from Ukraine for the price of admission to NATO in the form of patronage jobs (Hunter at Burisma, and more) and possibly laundered political campaign contributions and other payoffs. As long as they support Zelensky now, he'll keep quiet. They are desperate to prevent the truth from coming out, so a Ukraine victory is essential. If Zelensky has any brains he has set up full disclosure upon his death. Don't forget it's entirely possible that Zelensky leaked the call that got Trump impeached, or was in on it with the democrats. The whole situation stinks to hell. That includes the US interference that helped defeat a pro-Russia government in Ukraine with a pro-West govt. All the US interest over the past decade in Ukraine right, on Russia's border, to me is not that different than all the Russian interest in Cuba after Castro took over. We tried to invade Cuba to get rid of Castro and the Russians and failed. Russia is doing the same in Ukraine. Yes I know it's not the same because NATO did not put missile bases in Ukraine, but from Putin's point of view, it is. We say he is paranoid to think that a defensive alliance would be used to invade Russia, but then western Europe invaded Russia multiple times over the last 200 years, so why would he believe "oh, we won't do that AGAIN"? Watch "Ukraine on Fire". It's Oliver Stone, so yeah, it might be exaggerated, but it goes through 100 years of history and how things got to be the way they are today. | |||
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Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Or Russian bluffs. They've made an awful lot more threats since this all began than they've ever followed through on. | |||
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Crimea is a Russian stronghold, besides a major naval base, its a long-time vacation hot-spot for it's citizens as was shown by the oblivious beachgoers during the nearby airbase attack last month. Blowing the dam which supplies water to the peninsula would pretty much be an own-goal. Russian MO is lots of boastful, braggadocios statements; with all the material losses, vengeful attacks appear to be the strategy with missiles landing on apartment blocks and malls. | |||
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Regarding blowing up the dam, as many suspect Russia is intending, to provide cover and distance for a retreat; and several herein think is not going to happen. Quote from Understanding War. Any claims that Russian forces would not blow the dam due to concerns for the water supply to Crimea are absurd. Crimea survived without access to the canal flowing from the Dnipro since Russia illegally invaded and annexed it in 2014 through the restoration of access following Russia’s invasion in February 2022. Russian officials have demonstrated their ability to indefinitely supply Crimea with water without access to the canal. | |||
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Uh Oh You now have the die-hard leftists realizing this war is dragging their Prez, Party and country down the drain. From the Wapo: A group of 30 House liberals is urging President Biden to dramatically shift his strategy on the Ukraine war and pursue direct negotiations with Russia, the first time prominent members of his own party have pushed him to change his approach to Ukraine. I'm wondering if they are seeing how AOC's constituents have started turning on her and are getting a little panicked? | |||
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Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
^^ Please post the article. I refuse to give money to the WaPo to get past their paywall. Biden himself keeps saying inflation and gas prices are Putin's fault. So it would be logical to find a negotiated end to the war rather than keep drawing it out. What the working class is saying is simple - you are giving 10's of Billions to foreign countries and letting a ton of illegals in, but doing nothing for Americans. And they are right. | |||
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Enjoy and God Bless Does the Biden regime have the authority and power to remove someone's US Citizenship without due process ??? Biden’s chip controls may force Chinese-Americans working in China’s semiconductor firms to choose between their citizenship or their job One term in the Biden administration’s new controls on semiconductor sales to China could ensnare hundreds of Chinese-American tech executives working for the country's tech companies—and perhaps force them to choose between their citizenship, or their job. The new rules bar “U.S. persons,” which includes both U.S. citizens and permanent residents, from supporting the “development or production” of advanced chips at Chinese factories without a license. It's the first time export controls on China extend to people, rather than just organizations or companies. That could affect hundreds of executives and professionals with U.S. citizenship in China’s chip industry, including founders and C-suite executives, according to Nikkei Asia. https://twitter.com/HAOHONG_CF.../1580334598289993728 One Chinese chip company is already taking action. Naura Technology, a China-based manufacturer of chipmaking equipment, is telling its employees with U.S. nationality to immediately stop working on research projects, due to the new restrictions, reported the South China Morning Post on Thursday. Chipmaking firms outside of China are also reorganizing their teams to comply with the new rules. Netherlands-based ASML Holding, which manufactures critical chipmaking equipment, told its U.S.-based staff on Wednesday to immediately halt all engagement with Chinese customers, Bloomberg reported. The new rules on semiconductor exports, announced by the Biden administration on Friday, are Washington's broadest effort yet to hamper China’s semiconductor development. The controls bar sales of chipmaking equipment, as well as advanced chips made using U.S. equipment, to Chinese companies. The U.S. has exempted some non-Chinese companies, like SK Hynix, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, from its new export controls for a year. Yet Chinese companies won't get the same leniency from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Straddling two countries Chinese and Chinese-Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to operate in both the U.S. and China, as relations between Washington and Beijing sink to new lows. More Chinese academics are choosing to leave the U.S., citing a more hostile working environment. Over 1,400 Chinese academics gave up their U.S. affiliation in 2021, representing a 22% jump from the year before, according to data compiled by Princeton University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2018, the Trump administration launched the China Initiative to investigate allegations that U.S.-based scientists were transferring advanced technologies to China. Academics criticized the Initiative for chilling scientific cooperation and deterring Chinese academics from moving to or staying in the U.S. Gang Chen, an MIT professor who was charged with espionage under the China Initiative in 2021, said the program brought “unwarranted fear to the academic community” after the charges were dropped a year later. (The Biden administration ended the Initiative in February 2022, citing a perception that it unfairly targeted people of Chinese origin or ethnicity). Five months after the espionage charges were dropped, Chen helped discover what might be the “best semiconductor material ever found,” according to MIT. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com "Always legally conceal carry. At the right place and time, one person can make a positive difference." | |||
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Get my pies outta the oven! |
Isn't this exactly what the Left is accusing Elon Musk of being a Putin stooge for? For trying to avoid sending the world into a depression at best and nuclear war at worst? And look (I bolded it) who has suddenly changed her tune now that her constituents are calling her out for her hypocrisy?
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Biden attacked the fossil fuel industry on day one. Inflation and higher gas costs began then. That was before Ukraine. I am glad to see some pushback on Ukraine. All the Dems have is abortion and it is getting no traction. That increases the chances that this Admin will do something even more reckless before the elections. We have not began to see high food prices yet. Wait until next year | |||
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Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Putin has initiated or been offered peace talks several times. Russia's line is the same every time: give us all the land we occupy, give us all the land we claim, cede the lands we've already claimed, Russia keeps all of the Ukrainians it's forcibly "evacuated" to Russia, Ukraine has to stay out of NATO, Crimea has to receive plentiful water from Ukraine, and Russia makes no concessions at all since it's planning on taking more of Ukraine the next time it attacks Ukraine. What exactly are "talks" supposed to achieve if they don't end the fighting and don't do anything at all to dissuade Russia from engaging in future aggression on its neighbors? As for the "wait and see" argument, we've heard that several times from Russia and its apologists - and we haven't seen anything new or different yet except that Russia looks more and more weak with every passing crisis. The only way to end this - for everyone's sake - is to finally bury Stalin's ghost for good and for all. We've never seen a better opportunity for doing so than the one Russia and Ukraine have given us now, so it seems incredibly unlikely that we'll see a better opportunity to do so in the future. | |||
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Dude Do you realize what you are wishing for here? | |||
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I see Il Cattivo cooly wishing for the success of the attacked Ukrainians, to the betterment of the western and democratic world that respects sovereign boundaries, mostly. I'm not clear what others are wishing for, other than the failure of the current Admin regardless of collateral damage to European countries, up to and including substantial loss of lands now, and likely further in the unchecked future by a placated Putin/Russia. But I'm open to clarification. | |||
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Peace through superior firepower |
Should we come into your office one at a time and tell you, or do you just want us to shout our answers all at once? | |||
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You know creatives don't have offices | |||
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All at once, then. | |||
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It’s not just the far left that thinks that we must negotiate and end to this war. It seems to me that we as a nation are walking blindfolded towards the cliff, choosing to ignore those who are shouting STOP! “Jack F. Matlock, Jr. is a career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991. Prior to that he was Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs on President Reagan’s National Security Council staff and was U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1981-1983. He was Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and has written numerous articles and three books about the negotiations that ended the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and U.S. foreign policy following the end of the Cold War.” “ Why the US must press for a ceasefire in Ukraine” ... “ The leaders of both Russia and Ukraine have set impossible goals. In fact, not a single participant in the war in Ukraine has espoused a goal that can restore peace in the area. Russia’s recent incorporation of four Ukrainian provinces into the Russian Federation will not be accepted by Russia’s neighbors or by most European powers. Given the passions aroused by the war and its atrocities, Ukraine, even with NATO support, cannot create a stable, functioning state within all the borders it inherited in 1991. If Ukraine tries to regain these territories by force and is encouraged and empowered by the U.S. and NATO to do so, Russia (and not just President Putin) will very likely demolish Ukraine in retaliation. Reality trumps illusion whenever the two conflict. And if war should stop with the destruction of Ukraine — Kyiv and Lviv leveled as Grozny once was — that would assume that escalation does not involve the use of nuclear weapons. If the Russian leader feels convinced that the U.S. and “Western” goal is to take him out, what is to prevent him taking out others as he goes?” Link | |||
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Get my pies outta the oven! |
100% spot on All you regime-change armchair-Generals here better understand what you are going to get. Do we really want the plot of the movie Threads to play out over a pissant corrupt little country like Ukraine? | |||
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I'm with PASig on this. Il Cattivo: You do realize that we've been trying to end war "for good and for all" since Cain and Abel? Wasn't World War I the "war to end all wars"? Why some progressive Democrats are urging Biden to rethink his Ukraine strategy By Rajan Laad Such is the appetite for a war that the likes of Trump, Tucker, and Tulsi were branded Russian propagandists for merely demanding a peaceful solution via diplomacy and an end to unconditional aid. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) recently said that a GOP-led House would oppose more aid to Ukraine. McCarthy was called pro-Putin for his position by Rep. Liz Cheney. Make no mistake, the support for war doesn’t emanate from the concern for the Ukrainian people. It is more about quid-pro-quo deals that DC politicians have with cronies and donors such as arms dealers and others. This is why DC stands together in unconditional support of the war. This also explains their unhinged reaction whenever anybody mentions ending the conflict. Some probably stand to make such a considerable fortune that will leave them rich enough to retire prematurely. CBS News revealed that of the billions in military aid that the U.S. dispatches to Ukraine, merely 30% of it reaches its final destination. CBS then deleted the report and tweets linked to the report after their Democrat bosses probably walloped them with a metaphorical stick for telling the truth. The letter excluded the obvious serious security concerns about sending unlimited and unaccounted arms to a war zone. The war in Ukraine has attracted over 20 thousand foreign fighters. The advanced weaponry sent there could be sold on the black market ending up with terrorists. Perhaps some of the unvetted foreign fighters are terrorists. In both cases, the U.S. could have unknowingly funded terrorism. The letter also deliberately excludes mention of corruption and cronyism in Ukraine under President Zelensky which increases the likelihood of the aid being misused. https://www.americanthinker.co...kraine_strategy.html "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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