Chang: China Is Preparing To Go To War

[nucksRnum1]

Interesting. Listening to boomers preach about the horrors of their cold war enemies. About horrors they no nothing about personally. They simply rest in their hypocrisy of "doing as I say and not what I did." A generation that hasn't won 1 war in their lifetime. They just rest on the shoulders of their parents and grandparents victories. The soft lazy generation that made sure that everything they were handed has become worthless. Money - dreams - upward mobility - wages - pensions - democracy and everything that they were given by their fathers.

And then - they have the nerve to call their grandkids and everyone else how soft they are. Old angry white men that are so fragile - that they encouraged a riot or fringe protests. Or are too selfish to support the social safety nets that their fathers were benevolent enough to create for the least of these. Selfish enough to make sure their jealousy ruined labour solidarity and unions for a generation under Reagan and Thatcher. They whine about this today because unions are making a comeback. Whining because they are being taxed by the very system that they created making democracy a fantasy.

No one cares about people who preach about the "just because I say so" BS they spew. These people have accomplished nothing. They didn't trudge through mud and mustard gasses or machine guns. They didn't fly in planes over Europe in on what were essentially suicide missions like my Grand Dad. They were so soft that they created a "cold war" because they were too busy making economies and banks and markets that became a huge Ponzi scheme. The final proof of this was the support and adoration of their peer in America Trump. Mr "bone spur" "soft" himself to dodge a war.

You geriatrics can preach all you want - no one is listening. Now it's up to the greatest generation ever - gen x - to clean up the mess and do so knowing we won't be fortunate enough to have a pension because soft boomers will bankrupt them all. Lucky us. A generation who had to fight a 20-year war and lose. Broken mentally and physically coming home and begging for veteran affairs help. Which conservative Reaganite boomers continually underfund. There needs to be a reset. And I hope it all burns down. So that we can all be in the hole together. Enough is enough.

[countmeout]

Really? You want the place you live to be blown up? Innocent lives of your neighbors and family lost. You're hoping for it? You're a disgusting human.

I really truly do. .

Blocked.

[65deluxe]

Interesting. Listening to boomers preach about the horrors of their cold war enemies. About horrors they no nothing about personally. They simply rest in their hypocrisy of "doing as I say and not what I did." A generation that hasn't won 1 war in their lifetime. They just rest on the shoulders of their parents and grandparents victories. The soft lazy generation that made sure that everything they were handed has become worthless. Money - dreams - upward mobility - wages - pensions - democracy and everything that they were given by their fathers.

And then - they have the nerve to call their grandkids and everyone else how soft they are. Old angry white men that are so fragile - that they encouraged a riot or fringe protests. Or are too selfish to support the social safety nets that their fathers were benevolent enough to create for the least of these. Selfish enough to make sure their jealousy ruined labour solidarity and unions for a generation under Reagan and Thatcher. They whine about this today because unions are making a comeback. Whining because they are being taxed by the very system that they created making democracy a fantasy.

No one cares about people who preach about the "just because I say so" BS they spew. These people have accomplished nothing. They didn't trudge through mud and mustard gasses or machine guns. They didn't fly in planes over Europe in on what were essentially suicide missions like my Grand Dad. They were so soft that they created a "cold war" because they were too busy making economies and banks and markets that became a huge Ponzi scheme. The final proof of this was the support and adoration of their peer in America Trump. Mr "bone spur" "soft" himself to dodge a war.

You geriatrics can preach all you want - no one is listening. Now it's up to the greatest generation ever - gen x - to clean up the mess and do so knowing we won't be fortunate enough to have a pension because soft boomers will bankrupt them all. Lucky us. A generation who had to fight a 20-year war and lose. Broken mentally and physically coming home and begging for veteran affairs help. Which conservative Reaganite boomers continually underfund. There needs to be a reset. And I hope it all burns down. So that we can all be in the hole together. Enough is enough.

Gen X, the greatest generation ever? LOL. You mean the ones who believe, and have taught their children that safe spaces are necessary, the ones who tells us words hurt, the ones who need to be identified by chosen pronouns, the ones who think there are more then 2 genders, the ones who believe a world war won't effect them. Oh yeah, the generation X will save us.

[motokelowna1]

You geriatrics can preach all you want - no one is listening. Now it's up to the greatest generation ever - gen x - to clean up th

Gen X, the greatest generation ever? LOL. You mean the ones who believe, and have taught their children that safe spaces are necessary, the ones who tells us words hurt, the ones who need to be identified by chosen pronouns, the ones who think there are more then 2 genders, the ones who believe a world war won't effect them. Oh yeah, the generation X will save us.

People see the Chinese as aggressors yet they were persecuted by the rest of the world well before that.

[gertlush]

You geriatrics can preach all you want - no one is listening. Now it's up to the greatest generation ever - gen x - to clean up th

Gen X, the greatest generation ever? LOL. You mean the ones who believe, and have taught their children that safe spaces are necessary, the ones who tells us words hurt, the ones who need to be identified by chosen pronouns, the ones who think there are more then 2 genders, the ones who believe a world war won't effect them. Oh yeah, the generation X will save us.

People see the Chinese as aggressors yet they were persecuted by the rest of the world well before that.

HEY! Quit messing up the narrative with your 'facts' and 'nuance', all we plebs need to know is "China bad" mmmkkay.

That does remind me though, whatever happened to that Taibet place? Teebit? Something... yoy know, several dozen media orchestrated outrages ago?

[Drip_Torch]

Gen X, the greatest generation ever? LOL. You mean the ones who believe, and have taught their children that safe spaces are necessary, the ones who tells us words hurt, the ones who need to be identified by chosen pronouns, the ones who think there are more then 2 genders, the ones who believe a world war won't effect them. Oh yeah, the generation X will save us.

*Narrator's voice* - The youngest Gen X'er is 43 years old today.

[Babba_not_Gump]

Now it's up to the greatest generation ever - gen x - to clean up the mess

Thanks for the laugh KH.

Now I'm going to burst your balloon. It's you guys who are leaving the mess.
https://www.bchydro.com/news/press_cent ... omers.html
Gen X overtake Baby Boomers as largest carbon emitters in B.C.

Now to keep this on topic, god help the west with Gen X overseeing any threat from China. I'm more concerned about you guys, you need three options on your passport, M, F, X.

[gertlush]

So that NATO guy, Jens something, gave a speech after their conference about the need for member nations to increase spending. One of the reasons given was "the challenges we see China posing to our security"

Which I think is quite revealing, after all, its a European defensive alliance. Curious how China would interpret that... first Taiwan, then Portugal?

[nepal]

Hopefully peace and goodwill prevails.

[GordonH]

Bumped up

Apparently it’s not if now, it’s when.

https://www.castanet.net/news/World/420 ... ear-Taiwan

[gertlush]

Interesting that Russia is holding massive naval exercises in the Pacific as Chinas defence minister is visiting. You have to wonder if theyd offer support to a Chinese gambit to take Taiwan.

Something like 160 ships involved? We should inform the Russians they have a lower GDP than Canada and therefore what they are doing is impossible.

[GordonH]

Interesting that Russia is holding massive naval exercises in the Pacific as Chinas defence minister is visiting. You have to wonder if theyd offer support to a Chinese gambit to take Taiwan.

Something like 160 ships involved? We should inform the Russians they have a lower GDP than Canada and therefore what they are doing is impossible.

You should probably start learning Mandarin.

[gertlush]

I don't think so, English has a lot of advantages as a global lingua franca. Also China has huge systemic problems, there is little chance they could replace America as the global hegemon.

[oldtrucker]

I predict a possible US surrender. China won the 2010-2025 cold war (or whenever they decide to finally go into Taiwan ) similar to us out spending the soviet union 1989.
Apparently some analysis think they now out gun the US in ICBM / deliverable warhead numbers and thier efficient domestic value, -getting 7 times the bang for thier buck than nato spending at $600 for a hammer or toilet seat.

[seewood]

^^^^ China won't go nuclear to attack Taiwan. They likely would if someone were stupid enough to invade China.

North Korea with the short fat little twit at the helm is a bigger worry.

We should inform the Russians they have a lower GDP than Canada and therefore what they are doing is impossible.

However, Russia spends around 20% of the GDP on the military while Canada is a paltry 1.4% or so. And it shows in Canada:

National Defence could not meet the new requirement for Canada’s fighter force
What we found
3.12We found that Canada’s fighter force could not meet the government’s new operational requirement, which is to have enough aircraft ready each day to meet the highest NORAD alert level and Canada’s NATO commitment at the same time. The fighter force could not meet the requirement because National Defence was already experiencing a shortage in personnel, and the CF-18 was old and increasingly hard to maintain. We also found that the government’s proposed solution of buying interim aircraft will not help solve either the personnel shortage or the aging fleet.