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Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

by FullMoon » Sun May 19, 2024 1:37 pm

Joe Biden is the worst US president since Jimmy Carter. He specialises in betraying America’s friends and rewarding its enemies, in humiliating the West and empowering the Global South’s autocracies.

His underlying arrogance has been exacerbated by his deteriorating physical and mental condition. He acts like a blundering, interfering imperial overlord plagued by the shortest of attention spans. He sends out mixed signals, sucks up to random rogues, relentlessly bullies allies, micromanages complex conflicts from a distance and a position of ignorance, and inevitably angers both sides of every argument. Under his leadership, the world’s supreme economic, technological and military power exudes weakness, self-doubt and moral uncertainty.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/0 ... ess-biden/

Scathing and well deserved criticism. You could even make the argument that he's sailing the ship into the rocks for profit.

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

by FullMoon » Sun May 19, 2024 1:17 pm

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/us- ... indopacom/
If Beijing wants to execute a first strike and seize Taiwan, the ideal time might be right now, when INDOPACOM has no Standing Combined Joint Task Force (SCJTF) trained, poised, and ready to immediately employ the combat power of its Component Commands to defeat the PLA’s effort. Should this occur, INDOPACOM chief Adm. Samuel Paparo would have to form an ad hoc operational CJTF that would take weeks to assemble and prepare for combat.

In other words, INDOPACOM has no means of orchestrating a synchronized Joint All Domain campaign to absorb the blow, then launch a devastating counter-offensive operation against the PLA — which has to be so effective it keeps China from considering the nuclear option. We stand postured to lose our first large-scale conventional battle against the PLA.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Paparo just took over at the command this month, and with a new commander should come a new way of doing business. Specifically, Paparo should look to create a permanent SCJTF, specifically postured for a China scenario.
I wonder what our military expert members have to say about this. Seems like a reasonable argument.

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

by FullMoon » Sun May 19, 2024 1:14 pm

Any recommendations on which countries Americans can escape to?
This Forum concluded long ago that staying domestically is best. Choose your location. There's many good places. Navigator's book explains clearly and the Dark Age Hovel Higg has also made very compelling choices. It's VERY late in the game now and you better hurry. Putin, Xi and their NK lunatic are frothing at the mouth and ready to pounce.

Re: Liberal Hypocracy

by Guest » Sun May 19, 2024 9:15 am

Guest wrote:
Sun May 19, 2024 8:20 am
Navigator wrote:
Sat May 18, 2024 12:48 am
Just saw this great video on how the "Blue States", those completely controlled by the US Democratic party, utterly fail in all of the "liberal" theories that they espouse.

This video was actually made by the NY Times Editorial Dept.

It is actually liberals pointing out that liberals are a bunch of hypocrites, and that when they have absolute power (as they do in the Blue states, as the republicans in those states are powerless to pass laws or veto bills), they actually make things WORSE.

Worth a look just so that you can laugh at them the next time they make one of their arguments about how they are prevented from establishing Utopia (as they see it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw
This is it. This is what Warren Pollock (the former Youtuber that led me here in 2010) called the "dirt nap". America is already in a breakdown crisis. In a fractured country like America, it will be every man for himself. Unless you can assemble your own "tribe". Choose its members carefully. (Avoid DEI)
Any recommendations on which countries Americans can escape to?

Re: Liberal Hypocracy

by Guest » Sun May 19, 2024 8:20 am

Navigator wrote:
Sat May 18, 2024 12:48 am
Just saw this great video on how the "Blue States", those completely controlled by the US Democratic party, utterly fail in all of the "liberal" theories that they espouse.

This video was actually made by the NY Times Editorial Dept.

It is actually liberals pointing out that liberals are a bunch of hypocrites, and that when they have absolute power (as they do in the Blue states, as the republicans in those states are powerless to pass laws or veto bills), they actually make things WORSE.

Worth a look just so that you can laugh at them the next time they make one of their arguments about how they are prevented from establishing Utopia (as they see it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw
This is it. This is what Warren Pollock (the former Youtuber that led me here in 2010) called the "dirt nap". America is already in a breakdown crisis. In a fractured country like America, it will be every man for himself. Unless you can assemble your own "tribe". Choose its members carefully. (Avoid DEI)

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

by Guest » Sat May 18, 2024 10:02 am

Navigator wrote:
Thu May 16, 2024 11:16 pm
Guest Samsung phone wrote:
Wed May 15, 2024 7:50 am

The Russians have broken through Ukrainian lines in several areas. Europe dithered and now they will have to fight the Russians in the streets of their own countries.

Question: what are the tens of millions of military age illegal migrants going to be doing while all of this is going on?

Yeah, you got it...
There are serious problems for the Ukrainians, but no real deep breakthroughs.

HOWEVER - Russia has reconstituted its Army and has seriously ramped up its military production. Russian troops are now "battle-hardened" and the pictures/ videos I have seen lately no longer show people with outdated equipment and ragged uniforms. Putin has moved someone into the defense ministry he considers his "Albert Speer" to continue to ramp up production.

Russia in 1939/40 looked like a bad joke. By 1942/3 it was a different story. We have just about given them the same amount of time. China, meanwhile, is giving them the financial means to not only survive, but to dramatically increase armament factory staffing and production.

Warfare today is a mixture of 1917 and modern drones. It does not look like anyone can make major breakthroughs, but Ukraine is being ground down. They are running short of ammunition, especially the artillery ammunition I have expounded upon in the past. They are also running short of manpower, and it seems that their 20 year olds are about as committed to national defense survival as those in the rest of Europe.
Artists and writers in the late 19th century feared the 20th century; they foresaw that it would herald the rise of the machine. Thomas Hardy saw the rise of the machine as the death knell for the pastoral life; machines negate the need for humans to toil the land. Tolkien saw firsthand the horror of mechanised warfare. In the 21st century we have the drone - the hunter is now the hunted. Soldiers in trenches, walkers disobeying Covid law in the middle of nowhere, no one is safe from the eye in the sky. I recently had the misfortune to see the film ‘Civil War’. The thing that didn’t make sense the most about that depiction of a war (and there was no shortage of choice) was the total absence of the use of drones….as you say, this machine is how war is waged now.

Liberal Hypocracy

by Navigator » Sat May 18, 2024 12:48 am

Just saw this great video on how the "Blue States", those completely controlled by the US Democratic party, utterly fail in all of the "liberal" theories that they espouse.

This video was actually made by the NY Times Editorial Dept.

It is actually liberals pointing out that liberals are a bunch of hypocrites, and that when they have absolute power (as they do in the Blue states, as the republicans in those states are powerless to pass laws or veto bills), they actually make things WORSE.

Worth a look just so that you can laugh at them the next time they make one of their arguments about how they are prevented from establishing Utopia (as they see it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

by Navigator » Thu May 16, 2024 11:16 pm

Guest Samsung phone wrote:
Wed May 15, 2024 7:50 am

The Russians have broken through Ukrainian lines in several areas. Europe dithered and now they will have to fight the Russians in the streets of their own countries.

Question: what are the tens of millions of military age illegal migrants going to be doing while all of this is going on?

Yeah, you got it...
There are serious problems for the Ukrainians, but no real deep breakthroughs.

HOWEVER - Russia has reconstituted its Army and has seriously ramped up its military production. Russian troops are now "battle-hardened" and the pictures/ videos I have seen lately no longer show people with outdated equipment and ragged uniforms. Putin has moved someone into the defense ministry he considers his "Albert Speer" to continue to ramp up production.

Russia in 1939/40 looked like a bad joke. By 1942/3 it was a different story. We have just about given them the same amount of time. China, meanwhile, is giving them the financial means to not only survive, but to dramatically increase armament factory staffing and production.

Warfare today is a mixture of 1917 and modern drones. It does not look like anyone can make major breakthroughs, but Ukraine is being ground down. They are running short of ammunition, especially the artillery ammunition I have expounded upon in the past. They are also running short of manpower, and it seems that their 20 year olds are about as committed to national defense survival as those in the rest of Europe.

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

by Navigator » Thu May 16, 2024 11:06 pm

Interest rates cannot be raised due to the MOUNTAIN of government debt. When Volker raised rates in the early 1980s the national debt was something like $500B. Today we are on our way to $35 Trillion. So literally 70 times worse.

If interest rates go up, the Federal government would have to pay that rate of interest on its $35T of debt. It does not have the means to do this.

This is why there is no solution to the mess we are in. The only solution would be to SLASH almost all outlays and pay down debt. But there are so many large entitlement programs (not to mention Social Security and Defense) that it is politically impossible.

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

by Guest » Thu May 16, 2024 7:04 pm

NoMansLand wrote:
Thu May 16, 2024 5:42 pm
guest wrote:
Thu May 16, 2024 4:50 am
Would raising the interest rate to 10% stop inflation?
The short answer is yes. 10% interest rates, with no accompanying stimulus or other off setting spending, would put a halt to our current round of inflation.

However, high rates can only cure inflation the same way that a bullet can cure a fever. Once the patient is dead, they will cool down pretty rapidly.
Paul Volker did it. Why not do it now?

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