Sipsey Street Irregulars: One from the dragon, two from the bear.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

One from the dragon, two from the bear.

China's Master Plan to Sink the U.S. Navy

Russia Engages in Military Drills on Europe’s Doorstep

Ukraine's Poroshenko: 'New Russia' is like 'Mordor'

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Chiu ChunLing said...: Beijing would probably prefer that Russia fight the military conflict which decisively exposes the U.S. military as incapable of victory against a "near-peer" opponent. The project is, after all, not without significant costs and severe risks. But my read on the situation in Europe indicates that almost no provocation Russia can credibly mount is going to draw any meaningful response.

In the Pacific, the situation is different. I believe that Beijing can count on drawing a U.S. military response there, and probably will be able to cast most of the escalation factors as aggression on the part of the U.S. and allies. Something like:

"Innocent civilian" fishing vessels under attack by military boats (probably Japan's).
"Commercial" installations in Chinese (or "Chinese") waters attacked by aircraft.
U.S. military forces take aggressive posture, shoot down "unarmed" reconnaissance craft.

And bonus points for:

U.S. launches nuclear strike against civilian population centers in retaliation for conventional weapons deployment.

Yeah, that last one will play well in the history books.; August 25, 2015 at 4:51 PM
Pat H. said...: Porky is the EU/Rothchild's man, they appointed him and most of his cabinet. The Kiev government is illegitimate.

I don't know what you have against Russia, a Christian nation, but it's pretty obvious that you have a bias that you wear on your shirt sleeve.; August 25, 2015 at 8:35 PM
Dutchman6 said...: Well, gee Pat, I don't know. The fact that like Eric Hoffer's true believers they slipped from one collectivist regime to another seamlessly? I don't know, maybe the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Afghan, Chechen and Ukrainian villagers? The fact that their weapons and advisors have been killing Americans for decades? The fact that they obviously mean to do us harm in some revanchist wetdream left over from the Tsars? The fact that I know Georgian and Ukrainian exiles and believe their horror stories? Ukraine has been independent for 20 plus years now and still the f-ing Russians won't leave them alone. That's because they can thanks to the fact that WE talked them into disarming at the time of their independence and the breakup of the Soviet Union (that Putin and his cronies want to resurrect) and the Russians not unexpectedly have been attacking them ever since. You've been reading too much RT and swallowing far too much FSB (ex-KGB) disinformation if you believe the Kremlin line. Poor little Russians, everybody's always pushing them around. YEAH, RIGHT.; August 25, 2015 at 10:03 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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