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2021-01-31 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-31 02:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 The "nation that waged the Cold War and did not so much defeat the Soviet Union as outlast it and out-compete it" no longer exists. After about a year of COVID-19 the USA has still not, for example, eliminated the critical shortage of N95 masks for its health care personnel and for the common folk, and is still dependent on Chinese sources. Had the USA been that careless and irresponsible in 1942, it would have lost WWII.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-01-31 12:03|| 2021-01-31 12:03|| Front Page Top

#2 How We Lose

slowly at first, etc

Posted by Knuckles Hupeck5188 2021-01-31 14:10|| 2021-01-31 14:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The tipping point has nothing to do with material wealth or technical prowess or military might. It's simply a matter of society's will to defend its core beliefs and values.

When the Russian elites gave up on Tsarism, the regime collapsed.

When French nobles gave up on the court of Versailles and the Old Regime, the French monarchy collapsed.

When 1930s-era conservative Catholic and leftist secular Frenchmen agreed that they hated each other more than they hated German aggressors, the fate of France's very formidable and well-led army was sealed.

No one knows when or what will trigger America's collapse, but the underlying cause is certain.

If we do not mount a ferocious and unstinting counter-attack against the Woke Nihilist assault on our Constitutional republic, our core values, beliefs and precious heritage as heirs of Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Hamilton and Lincoln, then we will go down the path of the interwar French and pre-1917 Russians.

Woke-ism is far more dangerous to us than any foreign military arsenal or cyber-force or virus or other external threat.

Only we can destroy ourselves.
Only we can save ourselves.
The enemy is here. It is our fellow Woke Americans.

Posted by Jeremiah Unavinter2970 2021-01-31 18:15|| 2021-01-31 18:15|| Front Page Top

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