Nemesis is a necessity for the United States, grown corrupt from abuses of power; for the twc members here who were unabashed american nationalists such that every couple of weeks you had america yeah! threads, threads like this are a necessity to remind them that memento mori.
If the shoe fits.....
American society is a caste structure in flux; the white dominated majority are going to find themselves down to a mere plurality in a matter of years and this has enabled the election of a white supremacist sympathetic government and office holders. Trump is the last hurrah of the white american.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...coates/537909/It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself. White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint. Trump’s rise was shepherded by Steve Bannon, a man who mocks his white male critics as “cucks.” The word, derived from cuckold, is specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy—the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men. That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue. So it was with Virginia slaveholders claiming that Britain sought to make slaves of them.
...as opposed to the joys of being part of the Washington Consensus as Russia experienced before 1999 when Putin became President?Putin is I think blundering. His own economy cannot sustain the scale of military he wants but his military exports are a rare source of high vale (aside from raw materials). Overall he is selling a lot jewels to China with out I think an expectation of long term gain.
Russians like Putin know which way the wind's blowing which is why he told Macron to go back to his granny and make love to his himself when Macron tried to sell a great white alliance to Putin. And you're wrong about Russia's economy btw, even with sanctions, Russia's economy is still growing; China simply outclasses any country out there with the amount of capital it can throw into weapons tech research. China's going to get there, why not help an ally out as well as come to the head of the line when it comes to goodies? Marrying Russian tech with Chinese capital and tech is marriage made in heaven.
Yes, the only factor left is having to contend with eschatologist US leaders willing to destroy the world if surpassed by a peer superpower.In any case better early warning is probably a good thing as I said, minimizes the risk of mistakes.
Indeed, and thanks to the demonstration by Trump of tearing up NPTs and arms reductions treaties, we can happily expect more tensions and weapons tech.Policy is talk. Mistakes have been made and there were several close calls during the cold war. Tensions are tensions. Its so much what anyone's system can do by design or even as implemented. What will they when hacked, degraded, attacked, etc.
Macron dreams about a pan huwhite supremacist empire, not unlike ppl from the daily stormer or the altright like richard spencer advocate. Granted, they talk about a "white homeland" that just so happens to involve ethnically cleansing the part of the world deemd to be 'european homelands'.?
Which great white alliance are you dreaming about here.
oh how could i forget?! The PLA is introducing a new rifle:
That was a wonderful read, thank you for that.
Ok, key points, THAAD in south korea won't be able to cover the area those DF-41 launchers will be deployed; PLA shows mobile variants precisely to confounc such detection tools and even so, from the report:
Guess it's a good thing China AI is worlds ahead of US AI research; if the Chinese were to reverse engineer THAAD and couple it with military AI, they could process data much more quickly and easily to respond to any potential US hypersonic nuclear threat.As physicist and nuclear expert James Acton explains, “pointdefense systems, and particularly [Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)], could veryplausibly be adapted to deal with hypersonic missiles. The disadvantage of those systems is thatthey can only defend small areas. To defend the whole of the continental United States, you would need an unaffordable number of THAAD batteries.”15 In addition, some analysts haveargued that the United States’ current command and control architecture would be incapable of“processing data quickly enough to respond to and neutralize an incoming hypersonic threat
And i say potential because from the very same report:
Unlike China and Russia, the United States is not currently developing hypersonic weapons foruse with a nuclear warhead. As a result, U.S. hypersonic weapons will likely require greateraccuracy and will be more technically challenging to develop than nuclear-armed Chinese andRussian systems. Indeed, according to one expert, “a nuclear-armed glider would be effective if itwere 10 or even 100 times less accurate [than a conventionally-armed glider]” due to nuclearblast effects.20Having said that, the reports do tend to overstate rival arms abilities given the penchant for the Pentagon to wheedle Congress out of more money, but given that the past 10 years have seen the US military budget explode with very little to show for it, other than an overpriced stealth jet fighter that was detected by German radar, and countless cocaine binges by the Pentagon, how is it that China and Russia have managed to surpass the US in weapons tech development for only a fraction of the funding?According to a China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA) press release, China alsosuccessfully tested Starry Sky-2 (or Xing Kong-2), a nuclear-capable hypersonic vehicleprototype, in August 2018.77 Unlike the DF-ZF, Starry Sky-2 is a “waverider” that uses poweredflight after launch and derives lift from its own shockwaves. CAAA claims the vehicle reachedtop speeds of Mach 6 and executed a series of in-flight maneuvers before landing. Some reportsindicate that the Starry Sky-2 could be operational by 2025.78 U.S. officials have declined tocomment on the program.7
That's the real Scooby Doo mystery right there.