02-27-2017, 03:12 PM
(02-26-2017, 03:03 PM)Cynic Hero 86 Wrote: > Also Just to post here since you mentioned it before: Hitler
> wanted war with RUSSIA/USSR during the lead up to WW2, The Nazis
> actually did not want the western war, their entire movement was
> based on the goal of destroying "Jewish-Bolshevism" which
> eventually resulted in Barbarossa and the Holocaust. The war with
> Britain and France was actually considered by the Nazi Leaders to
> be a distraction from the planned "real war" that was to be fought
> against the USSR and which Hitler undertook beginning in June
> 1941.
Sooooo, the Nazis had no intention of invading Britain, even though
Hitler met with Mussolini in 1938 to plan the invasion.
(02-26-2017, 04:30 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > China is playing catch up to the American and Russian weapon
> systems whose only purpose is to attack Chinese cities, military
> bases, and installations. It's only paranoia that could lead one
> believe that has to be preparation for a preemptive attack. Far
> more likely is that they want parity with the US - and with Russia
> - in order to establish an approximately equal balance of power
> between the three.
Paranoia, huh? If missiles were the only thing, that might be
believable. But China is preparing for war on multiple fronts, and is
illegally building artificial islands and military bases in the South
China Sea, and is now installing launchers for long-range missiles.
China is also preparing for war with India in several places along
their common border.
You two guys make my head spin. It's obvious that you can think up a
benign excuse for even the most aggressively militaristic actions.
When I was growing up in the 1950s, I heard the same narrative from my
parents and from my teachers: It was amazing and incomprehensible that
so many people were fooled by Hitler, when it was so obvious in
retrospect. The British were duped by Hitler. Neville Chamberlain
was villified as the biggest dupe of all. Churchill saw it coming,
but was mocked and ridiculed at the time. Later, Churchill saved
Britain from the Nazis.
People my age have been puzzled our whole lives how it was possible
for so many people to be so completely fooled by Hitler, when it was
so obvious in retrospect that the signs were there all the time.
Listening to people like the two of you, these days I completely
understand what happened in the late 1930s, and why so many people
were fooled.
People like me fit a historical template. The mythical Cassandra was
ridiculed when she predicted the fall of Troy, and then was assaulted
and raped when her predictions came true. The Biblical Jeremiah was
thrown into a pit for predicting the fall of Jerusalem. Winston
Churchill was mocked and ridiculed, and then was thrown out of
office as soon as he won the war.
I've already gone through this process in another way. Ten years ago
it was perfectly obvious that there as a real estate bubble. I wrote
about it frequently. I owned a condo and sold it at the height of the
bubble. I told my friends not to buy real estate, but I was
ridiculed, and many of them did anyway, and lost a great deal of
money. One of them blamed me for losing his money, as if it were my
fault.
I have a record now of getting everything right for over ten years.
So what I'm saying is that China is preparing for preemptive war, and
that it's 100% certain. You two Nevilles are invited to believe
anything you want.
