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2014-08-15 China-Japan-Koreas

Europe's BDS And Bonsai Armies: Is The Sun Setting In The West And Rising East In China?

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 What role does China play in the Nork-Syrian-Iranian nuclear program?

Would North Korea actually engage in nuclear proliferation in such a sensitive and volatile region without China's blessing?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-08-15 06:50|| 2014-08-15 06:50|| Front Page Top

#2 'Bonsai armies'. The graft ridden governance types have come to realize they can take all the money, and not deliver any services, and no one there can stop them.
Puts a whole new spin on the phrase "captured by the system".

Posted by ed in texas 2014-08-15 07:52|| 2014-08-15 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 ed, aside from the usual graft issues (and European military procurement corruption is generally an order of magnitude less than that of, oh, say, Lebanon's), this is the natural result of the post-Gulf-War "professionalization" of Europe's armies, and the pivot away from conscript armies to volunteer armies. They took the obvious cue from the shattering of Saddam's large conscripted field formations, and started dismantling the "mass" armies which were the mainstay of both the Warsaw Pact and NATO national forces. Unfortunately, professional volunteer armies are amazingly expensive, and they haven't budgeted the sums needed to field more than a skeleton corps or two on average. Many of the smaller countries barely can scrape together more than the equivalent of a single brigade combat team. There isn't a regular army in Europe north of 200k, and most of them can't pull that many together if they called up the reserves.

Posted by Mitch H. 2014-08-15 08:52|| 2014-08-15 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 ..it's also an effect of generations of American military welfare for first world countries who got to play the socialist give away game with resources that should have otherwise gone to their own national defense. Now with that umbrella starting to disappear, they don't have the will to reallocate resources.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-08-15 09:05|| 2014-08-15 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Two points.

I) I had heard the Chinese were called the jews of asia because they had business and trading communities throughout the region. These wealthy communities were attacked by their poorer neighbors during the Indonesian and Malayian civil wars. the Chinese would be really thick to not at least have a glimmer of understanding about the roots of anti-semitism.

II) Western Armies kick the snot out of other armies because of Western Culture. the armies might be starved of hardware but in general the training and non-coms are gonna be a far better model to emulate than anything the Chinese can produce at this point. Allying with the strong horse is one thing but getting miltiary training/hardware from them is just daft.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-08-15 14:33|| 2014-08-15 14:33|| Front Page Top

#6 the Chinese would be really thick to not at least have a glimmer of understanding about the roots of anti-semitism.

The overseas Chinese, yes.

The Communist Chinese... the guys who helped install and supported the Khmer Rouge during their genocides... they probably understand Naziism too, but not the way you think.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-08-15 16:34|| 2014-08-15 16:34|| Front Page Top

#7 The way I see Chinese attitude to Antisemitism: to them you're either Chinese, or you're a monkey---and they don't really care if you're an Aryan or a Jewish monkey.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-15 17:14|| 2014-08-15 17:14|| Front Page Top

#8 The Yazidis repor claim influence from ancient Hinduism, among other - WHERE OH WHERE IS RISING INDIA = AKA FUTURE OWG CO-SUPERPOWER INDIA IN ALL THIS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-08-15 19:29|| 2014-08-15 19:29|| Front Page Top

#9 As far as European military is concerned, they're moving back towards their preferred pattern, which they basically lost after the Thirty Years War: Mercenaries.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-08-15 19:51|| 2014-08-15 19:51|| Front Page Top

#10 I would say that saidsame Jews "fleeing Europe" don't trust Euro Democratic-Liberal Socialists includ Commies to protect or defend themselves, let alone Jews.

Prob is there's no guarantee that Globalist Amerika will be any different, i.e to promote + defend the Marxist/Socialist Welfare-Nany Stae MOdel at all costs even iff it means putting everybody in existential danger at the hands of the Soon-to0-be-Nuclear Global Jihad [Islam-based Theo-Socialists]???

Anyhoo, as for CHINA ... ...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Foreign Policy] CHINA SEES "ISLAMIC STATE" MILITANTS INCHING CLOSER TO HOME: CHINESE MEDIAS LIGHT UP AFTER HONG KONG WEEKLY SAYS "ISLAMIC STATE" AIMS TO EXPAND INTO XINJIANG.

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Epoch Times] CHINA DECLARES AUSTRALIA A MILITARY THREAT OVER US PACT.

PLAN RADM. Li Jie.

* SAME > US DIPLOMAT DENIES ALIANCE WILL DRAG AUSTRALIA INTO WAR WID CHINA.

* REALTED WORLD MILITARY FORUM > DARWIN, AUSTRALIA TO BE "SECOND GUAM" US SUPERBASE IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AND SE ASIA WID NEW 25-YEAR US-AUSTRALIA SECURITY AGREEMENT. DARWIN UNSAFE FROM RAIN OF CHINESE MISSLES DUE TO BEING 3000-KMS CLOSER TO CHINESE TERRITORY THAN GUAM BASE.

* Also from SAME > DF-41 LR ICBM GIVES CHINA A SECOND-STRIKE CAPABILITY AGZ THE US.

* SAME > EXPERT: CHINA'S PROCUREMENT OF RUSSIAN-MADE S-400 BMD-ADS + DIAOYU-BASING WILL ALLOW CHINA EFFECTIVE COVER AGZ US-ALLIED FIGHTERS, STRIKE AIRCRAFT BASED ON OKINAWA, TAIWAN + SOUTH KOREA.

* MARIANAS VARIETY > "OBAMA OPPOSED BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ON [Unincorporated = Non-US State] AMERICAN SOIL.

MORE GOOD NEWS FOR RISING CHINA FROM GLOBALIST OBAMA, US EAST ASIA ALLIES + GUAM-WESTPAC NOTSOMUCH.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-08-15 22:18|| 2014-08-15 22:18|| Front Page Top

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