Here's an interesting perspective on the state of our country and world today that all but removes the virus itself from the conversation, warning, this southern redneck right wing radical is a little difficult to understand what with his ignorant sounding accent and all. Oh wait... But he is a Wells Fargo financial adviser so feed your head. Worth the 10 or so minutes IMO.
Hopefully the US will never allow our supply chain to be dependent on China again. I say this..but..I doubt that will happen. We tend to not learn from our mistakes.
Thank you for posting this. This gentleman makes some very strong and controversial conclusions, but I appreciated his logic and process as to how he views this situation. I hope he is wrong, I am terrified if he is right, but that was 10 minutes of listening to a rational argument that I am very glad I watched. +3
I agree with what he said but what I'd like to know is, what's next? We (I suspected that this is a germ war all along one giveaway was why were foreign reporters kicked out) need to stop all this panic and the media including Fox is just perpetuating the fear. We're fighting for toilet paper for Pete's sake, toilet paper.
We've defeated great calamities before but we can't do it ourselves, we need the Lords help this time too. Pray for our president, our leaders, and for our nation.
Thank you for posting this. This gentleman makes some very strong and controversial conclusions, but I appreciated his logic and process as to how he views this situation. I hope he is wrong, I am terrified if he is right, but that was 10 minutes of listening to a rational argument that I am very glad I watched. +3
I was very impressed with his calm rational logic and the fact that he's a democrat. I too hope he's wrong but he was very convincing without resorting to fear-mongering or demagoguery.
(03-19-2020 11:25 PM)olliebaba Wrote: I agree with what he said but what I'd like to know is, what's next? We (I suspected that this is a germ war all along one giveaway was why were foreign reporters kicked out) need to stop all this panic and the media including Fox is just perpetuating the fear. We're fighting for toilet paper for Pete's sake, toilet paper.
We've defeated great calamities before but we can't do it ourselves, we need the Lords help this time too. Pray for our president, our leaders, and for our nation.
(03-19-2020 03:29 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: China can't exist without Mideast oil. And until somebody figures out how to build a pipeline over the Himalayas, that means they are totally dependent on a maritime supply chain that runs through the Straits of Hormuz, around India, through the Straits of Malacca or some other way trough the Indonesian archipelago, and finally across the China sea. They don't have a navy that can protect that supply chain, so we do it for them. Without us, any one of the three I's--Iran, India, Indonesia--cut shut the Chinese economy down and create mass starvation in about 14 days. I think it is way past time for us to make it abundantly clear that our relationship going forward is based on that reality.
They will just build a big azz navy if we threaten that line publicly. I'd just leave that alone so it stays our ace in the hole if there is ever a shooting war. My preference is we learn our lesson on global supply chains and completely re-evaluate what we make and where. There are certain mission critical product/manufacturing chains that should be compeltely domestic. If you want to make party favor bobbles in China--be my guest. Anything military or imperative for life needs to be made in the good ole USA wherever possible.
And heck yes--Bernie is a communist.
They are building that big azz navy right now, about as fast as they can. They can't really go any faster without giving up something somewhere else--their army, or their ability to keep order internally. And it will still take 20 years or so for them to build enough ships. And probably another 20-30 to become competent enough seafarers to run a blue-water navy. Heck, Russia still hasn't figured out how to do underway replenishment or carrier flight ops, and they've been watching us do both of them for 75 years. If China goes absolutely balls to the wall on building a blue-water navy, they're still 20-50 years away from being able to secure that supply chain. It's not as easy as it looks. They'd have a much better shot at taking Siberia from Russia.
Russia and China are both land powers, and both of them have feet of clay, if not sand. They are both running out of 20-somethings, the folks you need to be soldiers and sailors. I still think there is an opportunity in our foreign policy to triangulate Russia and China against each other.
