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The Thucydides Trap: Does it
Render the US Powerless?
Under former President Obama’s lack of leadership our military strength
sank to Reagan-era levels while Russian and Chinese levels rose beyond our
capabilities. This is especially true of
our navy. As I wrote at the beginning of
the year, China has been building artificial islands in the North China sea,
posing a threat to Japan and other nations in the area and the US, despite
promises, is no longer in a position to defend its allies.
Many consider the East China Sea as the most
dangerous place on the entire planet according to a report posted on
NationalInterest.org. The Chinese wants
control of the entire area and there have been numerous instances of military
posturing and bluffing which could easily tip into war with Japan and even Viet
Nam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei.
Although the US doesn’t have an official
position in these conflicts, it would likely support Japan or the Philippines
if drawn into a conflict – it is a very touchy situation that is little
reported in the American press.
The
Chinese, going back to former President Clinton, stole or were given military
technology at record levels which began a race to put it on a par with US
military at every level including naval, missile, cyber and space technology.
Both the Chinese and the Russians are better
prepared for massive cyberattacks than the US
Tech
website Gizmodo reports that
the US is playing catch-up, and spending billions to “develop capabilities
matching those of China and Russia, establishing military commands for
attacking, defending and exploiting the vulnerabilities of electronic
communications networks.”
“Information warfare combines electronic
warfare, cyber-warfare and psy-ops into a single fighting organization, and
this will be central to all warfare in the future.”
Reports of massive cyber attacks on
government agencies and large banks and retailers have become commonplace. Russia and China are two sources, but there’s
no shortage of private hackers from Eastern Europe as well.
Chinese forces are very modern and they own large nuclear forces and have far more local assets to
repel our navy from the South China Sea than ever before. Russia’s nuclear arsenal is greater than ours
– by one.
Russia is also factory testing a tactical
electromagnetic combat system that would neutralize America’s electronic
warfare capability. It is claimed the
system will protect troops, equipment and factories from air and space attacks
by suppressing the guidance systems in US bombs and satellites which would
render our so-called smart bombs and drones useless.
Both Russia and China are set to deploy a new
superweapon, according to the Mitchell Institute. They hare missiles that strike their targets
at many times the speed of sound. No
known US defense can stop them. They can
be seen from a carrier deck as a speck in the distance by the naked eye for an
instant before they hit you.
The Russian and Chinese military tech has
grown in sophistication. The Russian
“Zircon” strike system, for example.
It’s projected to be deployed within six months and is estimated that
its warheads go 4,600 MPH and there is no known way to stop them.
These hypersonic weapons are being tested by
the Chinese as well and we’re playing catch-up says the National Academy of Sciences. Popular
Mechanics says hypersonic missiles are capable of flying five to six
times the speed of sound, the missiles will be carried by both aging
battlecruisers and new submarines, giving each the ability to quickly kill
enemy ships.”
US warships can now be shredded like
confetti!
The Daily
Mail quoted the Russian newspaper Pravda
as saying the “new Zircon missile would be able to annihilate the new
British HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carriers [due to
launch in 2020] in one fell swoop.
The father of Putin’s hypersonic push is
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin who heads the Russian Foundation
for Advanced Research Projects and is an ultra-nationalist who also wants the
US to return the state of Alaska to Russia!
Rogozin says harnessing kinetic power undoes
America’s military edge over Russia one and for all. Imagine a fleet of hypersonic weapons in
Chinese and Russian hands? They could
sink our carriers no matter its location or remove US airplanes from the sky in
minutes and overwhelm our missile defense systems. It could even deliver grid-destroying
electromagnetic pulse weapons to all major US power generation systems in
minutes [rumor has it they have provided this technology to North Korea].
This theory of war between China and America
is called the Thucydides Trap -
Throughout the history of civilization, empires rise and then fall…
Although the final stages of collapse can be rapid and violent, the actual collapse is gradual and occurs over years and decades. Because of gradualism, the collapse is usually imperceptible to the people. It seems only a handful observe the increasing slide of a nation and recognize it for what it is. And no one, it seems, learns from history.
There are several schools of thought as to what precipitates the end of empires. Two years ago Stratfor, the globalist think tank for multinational corporations, posited two of them. Citing the 1987 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, it pointed out that western powers since 1500 AD all fell after they were drawn into foreign entanglements that forced them to spend more of their wealth for wars. This created underinvestment in domestic needs, sending the country into an economic and social decline that emboldened more enemies. This created a cycle of more war and oppression.
In The Collapse of Complex Societies, author Joseph Tainter suggested that empires collapse following a loss of confidence in the ruling elite and traditional institutions. This idea was echoed in the book, Empire and Civilization by Niall Ferguson.
Do you see this in America today?
I believe both of these are true and would add another. There is a direct connection between debauching of the currency and the moral and social breakdown of society. That has happening in our country as well. I believe all of this makes our ultimate shakedown a matter of time.
SIDEBAR: What the Sanctions Really Mean for Russia
Russia and the United States are now in a situation where confrontation can twist in ways that are difficult—and possibly impossible—to forecast. Read it here.
The Globalist Agenda Is Being Met: “To Collapse The United States Internally And Attack It Externally”
Yours for
taking back your liberty,
Bruce, the Poor Man
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2 comments:
VERY scary stuff and it makes so angry that Obama let our military preparedness slide and no one in DC seemed to care-that man is an ass and now he is strutting around with his new-found wealth grinning like a ghetto drug dealer.
Why don't we ever hear about this on the nightly snooze? The Clinton News network doesn't share this. No wonder Americans are in the dark about so much. they do however, share glowing stories about that Clinton wanna-be, Obama, basking in riches after he lined his pockets in DC.
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