08-17-2018, 11:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2018, 03:28 AM by Cynic Hero '86.)
The predominant US stance on the Taiwan issue as well as NATO expansion up to Russia's doorstep are the twin geopolitical babies of the Boomer globalists. Common sense dictates a different policy on both of these issues other than the policy we actually have, however boomers are emotionally attached to the current positions because they symbolize the boomers dream of democratizing Russia and China. Maintaining the Current Position regarding the "Great Game" vs Russia and China is one of the primary motivations behind the boomers tyranny. Selfish Boomers know that if they allow anyone born after 1955 any real decision making power, those cohorts would immediately change US policy so that the US is not rammed up deep into to Russia and China's faces. Acknowledging that the governments of Moscow and Beijing have the right to rule their own countries means that those nations would not be forcibly democratized is an unacceptable option for boomers for emotional reasons.
Yes There are nationalists in both China and Russia calling for expansion against their immediate neighbors but even so this by itself would not mean war with the US. What would cause a war clash between China vs the US or Russia vs the US is NOT just irredentism on the Russian and/or Chinese leadership side vs Cool and collected leaders on the American Side. What would cause the Clash would be irredentism on the Russian and/or Chinese leadership side vs American leaders who have visions of the entire planet being democratized, with notions of a star trek style world government floating in the heads of the Current generation of American leaders. The sooner the government in Washington abandons such delusions, the better, regardless of what boomers both on the right and on the left believe in.
Such globalist delusions on the part of American and Western Boomers motivates several hard stances the West currently has that are otherwise incomprehensible. Apart from the Already mentioned stances on NATO expansion and the Taiwan issue and associated issues. Other issues that could cause a great power showdown as well as several ideological stances are also the result of these boomer delusions: Notably the Irrationally hostile stance toward Bashar al-Assad. Assad hasn't attacked anyone outside of Syria's borders, yet western leaders clearly won't be satisfied unless Assad is dead or in a prison cell. This irrationally hostile stance toward Assad coupled with NATO expansion has brought the west several times to the brink of war with Russia when the Russian could otherwise have been courted as an ally against China. However boomers want it both ways, characteristic of their selfishness. Other examples of this selfishness is the western stance toward Burma and the US seeking the overthrow of the Hun Sen government instead of Simply offering Hun Sen a better deal than what the Chinese are offering him.
Such selfishness and delusions from the boomers also explains certain American stances regarding several active combat zones: The reason why US participation in the Middle east wars are limited to deploying special forces when a large-scale deployment of ground troops would have eliminated ISIS much faster. Similarly boomers have never supported an actual campaign in afghanistan. Most prominently, the lack of a nuclear first strike on North Korea even though the Norks threatened us first is an obvious manifestation of this selfishness and love for globalism. A nuclear first strike on North Korea would have forced every country in the world to reevaluate their relations with the US, that boomers don't grasp that this reevaluated international system would have been much safer for Americans than the current international system show the Boomer leaders obvious stupidity. North Korea is really a test case for a showdown with both China and Russia, so far boomer leaders of the US have been failing the test.
Yes There are nationalists in both China and Russia calling for expansion against their immediate neighbors but even so this by itself would not mean war with the US. What would cause a war clash between China vs the US or Russia vs the US is NOT just irredentism on the Russian and/or Chinese leadership side vs Cool and collected leaders on the American Side. What would cause the Clash would be irredentism on the Russian and/or Chinese leadership side vs American leaders who have visions of the entire planet being democratized, with notions of a star trek style world government floating in the heads of the Current generation of American leaders. The sooner the government in Washington abandons such delusions, the better, regardless of what boomers both on the right and on the left believe in.
Such globalist delusions on the part of American and Western Boomers motivates several hard stances the West currently has that are otherwise incomprehensible. Apart from the Already mentioned stances on NATO expansion and the Taiwan issue and associated issues. Other issues that could cause a great power showdown as well as several ideological stances are also the result of these boomer delusions: Notably the Irrationally hostile stance toward Bashar al-Assad. Assad hasn't attacked anyone outside of Syria's borders, yet western leaders clearly won't be satisfied unless Assad is dead or in a prison cell. This irrationally hostile stance toward Assad coupled with NATO expansion has brought the west several times to the brink of war with Russia when the Russian could otherwise have been courted as an ally against China. However boomers want it both ways, characteristic of their selfishness. Other examples of this selfishness is the western stance toward Burma and the US seeking the overthrow of the Hun Sen government instead of Simply offering Hun Sen a better deal than what the Chinese are offering him.
Such selfishness and delusions from the boomers also explains certain American stances regarding several active combat zones: The reason why US participation in the Middle east wars are limited to deploying special forces when a large-scale deployment of ground troops would have eliminated ISIS much faster. Similarly boomers have never supported an actual campaign in afghanistan. Most prominently, the lack of a nuclear first strike on North Korea even though the Norks threatened us first is an obvious manifestation of this selfishness and love for globalism. A nuclear first strike on North Korea would have forced every country in the world to reevaluate their relations with the US, that boomers don't grasp that this reevaluated international system would have been much safer for Americans than the current international system show the Boomer leaders obvious stupidity. North Korea is really a test case for a showdown with both China and Russia, so far boomer leaders of the US have been failing the test.
