08-18-2016, 12:41 PM
(08-18-2016, 11:43 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: > The East Bloc (called the SCO in its current "release") uses the
> scissors strategy to sow confusion on the part of the West. The
> way this works is - Russia creates one camp of loosely or tightly
> affiliated nations, and China creates another, competing
> camp. This deludes the West into thinking that ultimately Russia
> and China will come to loggerheads and will never form The Single
> Clenched Fist. This way, right on the eve of Great War, when the
> Single Clenched Fist moves into operational mode, the West will
> stand dumbfounded, realizing that Lucifer's Hammer will be twice
> as brutal as anyone might have imagined.
This is wonderful! You really should expand it into a short story or
even a full-length novel!! I'm sure it would do well.
How can you possibly believe that Russia and China are going to form a
"single clenched fist"? There's absolutely no history to support
that. They hate each other, they've been in massive bloody wars with
each other for centuries, and they were close to war as recently as
1970. China is totally disgusted with Russia for the collapse of
Russia's communist party. Their respective client states, India and
Pakistan, are close to thermonuclear war. They're competing for
resources in Russia's Far East and in Central Asia. Russia
is on Vietnam's side in the South China Sea.
They only have one thing in common. They're both imitating Hitler by
annexing regions belonging to other nations, they're both contemptuous
of the United States and the United Nations. Those "commonalities"
could dissolve at a moment's notice.
(08-18-2016, 11:43 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: > I know you pooh, pooh this view, and believe your own formulation
> is the superior one.
> The beauty of my formulation is, if I am wrong, then we will be
> overprepared.
> Whereas, if you (and the multitudes of conventional geopolitical
> analysts subscribing to similar notions) are wrong, we are so
> screwed.
I don't know if you've noticed, but I've said "we are so screwed"
no matter what happens, because China is developing massive numbers
of nuclear missiles that have no purpose except to destroy
American cities, American military bases, and American aircraft
carriers. They have every intention of launching those missiles
-- all of them -- irrespective of the SCO.
