23-Dec-13 World View -- China conducts flight test of DF-41

[John]

23-Dec-13 World View -- China conducts flight test of DF-41 long-range nuclear-capable missile

Al-Qaeda apologizes for terrorist attack on Yemen hospital

** 23-Dec-13 World View -- China conducts flight test of DF-41 long-range nuclear-capable missile
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e131223



Contents:
China conducts flight test of DF-41 long-range nuclear-capable missile
Al-Qaeda apologizes for terrorist attack on Yemen hospital
Egypt's junta targets secularists in addition to Muslim Brothers


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, China, Dong Feng-41, DF-41, DF-21D, JL-2,
Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center,
Yemen, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP,
Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Hosni Mubarak

[solomani]

A single nuke landing in the USA would mean China covered in nuclear fire. The retaliation ability of the USA far exceeds China. I can't see it happening.

War yes, but not directly between the USA and China.

[John]

> A single nuke landing in the USA would mean China covered in
> nuclear fire. The retaliation ability of the USA far exceeds
> China. I can't see it happening. War yes, but not directly
> between the USA and China.

I've heard this reasoning many times. The same reasoning explains why
it was impossible for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941 or for the
American South to attack the North in 1861.

[RichardTheTrader]

You poor, poor, poor, poor fool. It is the United States that will attack China, not the other way around.

[John]

> You poor, poor, poor, poor fool. It is the United States that will
> attack China, not the other way around.

I may indeed be a poor, poor, poor fool, but it's China that will
launch a preemptive nuclear attack, not the U.S.

[solomani]

> A single nuke landing in the USA would mean China covered in
> nuclear fire. The retaliation ability of the USA far exceeds
> China. I can't see it happening. War yes, but not directly
> between the USA and China.

I've heard this reasoning many times. The same reasoning explains why
it was impossible for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941 or for the
American South to attack the North in 1861.

Those don't hold. Nuclear destruction was not in the picture. What held back the USSR and the USA if not nukes? It will be much more like the cold war than your other examples.

[John]

> Those don't hold. Nuclear destruction was not in the picture. What
> held back the USSR and the USA if not nukes? It will be much more
> like the cold war than your other examples.

The thing that held back the nukes was the generational
Awakening/Unraveling eras. Today most of the world is in a
generational Crisis era, and you don't have a "cold war" during a
crisis era.

The reason that Generational Dynamics works is that people in a Crisis
era always think that everything's the same as things were 10, 20 or
30 years ago. The whole point of generational theory is to say
emphatically that that's not true.

If you want to compare today's mood and behavior to a previous era,
then you have to go back to the 1930s-40s. The 1970s, 80s and 90s are
totally irrelevant.

John

[Guest]

> Those don't hold. Nuclear destruction was not in the picture. What
> held back the USSR and the USA if not nukes? It will be much more
> like the cold war than your other examples.

The thing that held back the nukes was the generational
Awakening/Unraveling eras. Today most of the world is in a
generational Crisis era, and you don't have a "cold war" during a
crisis era.

The reason that Generational Dynamics works is that people in a Crisis
era always think that everything's the same as things were 10, 20 or
30 years ago. The whole point of generational theory is to say
emphatically that that's not true.

If you want to compare today's mood and behavior to a previous era,
then you have to go back to the 1930s-40s. The 1970s, 80s and 90s are
totally irrelevant.

John

I agree completely. (Unfortunately.)

[chrono117]

A single nuke landing in the USA would mean China covered in nuclear fire. The retaliation ability of the USA far exceeds China. I can't see it happening.

War yes, but not directly between the USA and China.

So that's what all the ghost cities China built are for. They're for them to move into after we blow up the occupied ones.

[solomani]

My strategic advice if I was the USA anda nuke was launched at the US (whether in landed or not) would be to burn China except for HK. Between HK and Taiwan a democratic China would be born and US hegemony would be guaranteed for another century.