As Is The Feeling,
So Is The Result.
Lawrence Person & Co. (BattleSwarm Blog) shill (and here) for the US Foreign Policy Establishment (FPE). The US FPE, always stupid but cunning, are drumming up hysteria to the effect that China is about to invade Taiwan mounting information operations to gin up American public support for their next endless war of appeasement, with China, who can keep FPE rice bowls filled almost indefinitely. Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
DrMaturin
Why would China do this? What do they have to gain by invading Taiwan? If they win they would inherit a ruined island filled with people who hate them. They would turn all Asia and much of the rest of the world against them. And for what?
David R. Graham to DrMaturin
Exactly! Taiwan has no strategic value so long as she is in China’s front. Taiwan is a threat to China only when China’s front is pushed east of Taiwan, making Taiwan in China’s rear. Strategically, China’s eastern advantageous front would be the line Palau, Guam. Hawaii, Midway, Sitka.
Thus, I expect any Chinese move east now would be on Palau, leaving Taiwan in her rear to succumb, at China’s convenience rather than necessity, to a Chinese double envelopment, from Taiwan’s front and from Taiwan’s rear. Continental USA, not Taiwan, is the prize China wants.
Taiwan now would be doable for China but for no strategic benefit. China’s strategic objective now is moving her eastern front east of USA’s western front, which should be the eastern littoral of Asia.
Bigger picture: Xi’s and Party’s ambitions — atop mortal frames, recall — are running their assets to irrationalities to which Erdogan also subscribes: multi-front offensive operations, attended predictably by dissipation of force and morale while inventing opportunities for successful counter-attack, further degrading morale.
Morale is three to material’s one. Chinese humiliate themselves with their own pigheadedness. What morale did pigs ever have? Still, I am sure Xi and Party have figured out that their next move east is to Palau, en route to Sitka and The Golden Gate, San Francisco, where reside already so many friends of theirs.
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