08-29-2017, 01:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-29-2017, 01:48 PM by Cynic Hero '86.)
(08-29-2017, 01:16 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(08-29-2017, 12:45 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: > Actually paranoia about China probably is irrational. As long as
> they can sell cheap plastic shit to the US and then use those
> dollars to buy oil they need us more than we them. The DPRK and Al
> Qaeda are different animals entirely.
Hmmmm. Let me see. China is an international criminal, annexing
regions in the South China Sea in proven violation of international
law, threatening the US for simple freedom of navigation trips,
claiming that the artificial islands are for tourists, and then
loading them up with missiles, warplanes, radars, and so forth,
threatening the Philippines and Vietnam for fishing in their own
historical fishing waters, threatening Japan in the East China Sea,
threatening Bhutan on Doklam Plateau, threatening India in Kashmir,
and building dozens or hundreds of nuclear ballistic missiles whose
only purpose is to target American cities, bases and aircraft carriers
-- and paranoia about China is irrational, according to you.
But al-Qaeda and North Korea have no nuclear missiles at present, and
paranoia about them is NOT irrational, according to you.
Yeah, that makes sense. Peace in our time. It really is all
mathematics, you know.
And those missiles have been there since the early 1980s. Like the Russian Arsenal, the ship has sailed in regards to a Chinese nuclear arsenal decades ago. If you are worried about Chinese or Russian capabilities, the only remedy to that is a permanent Military-Industrial Complex. But I forget, you boomers hate the very idea of having a permanent military-industrial complex. North Korea however is developing nuclear capability exponentially, and note unlike with China and Russia, the US is technically still at war with North Korea and the North Korean leadership is far more irrational. For these reasons the North Korean arsenal or the scenario of Al-Qaeda getting nukes is regarded by the US government with More concern than with the Status of The Russian or Chinese Nuclear arsenals even though the Latter two Countries pose a greater existential threat to the US in terms of Actual Military Power.
