Thread by @APhilosophae

An armed society is a polite society. By extension, nuclear armed nations which can end the world should be excruciatingly polite to one another. Yet here we are talking about war with BOTH China and Russia. Our elected representatives are numbingly stupid and are failing us.

The American media's hysteria about Russia and China which could actually lead to conflict has more to do with future budget concerns of the MIC and the revolving door of monied power than it does any threat to American shores or Citizens from Chinese/Russian tanks or bombs.

China's growth can be, in part, directly attributed to our own (globalist corporatism) enabling of their ambitions in scaled manufacturing in an effort to gain access to cheap product stateside, and the huge consumer market always dreamed of opening up in mainland China.

Relying on manufacturers in Asia and long and vulnerable supply lines has been despised by the blue-collar Americans who find themselves at the mercy of these globalist corporatists AND, if war breaks out, the trenches of WW3 which trad Americans DONT want.

And to think that prepositioning, as the US Mil has decided, of a brigade's worth of armor in Poland with this new APS facility stands any chance of facing down the Russian army is laughable. The US Army does good to maintain the existing rotation of an armored brigade in Europe.

Those troops would be a speed bump. When was the last time anyone on active duty went to NTC and faced a peer adversary threat modeled on Russia or China? During the cold war the CIA maintained the Office of Soviet Analysis where the best and brightest went to work and serve.

But for the past 20 years talent has been concentrated elsewhere focusing on GWOT. Our military and intelligence institutions are not trained, equipped, or doctrinally prepared to fight Russia or China, not to mention both at the same time on different fronts.

People need to start electing real leadership. This hawkish nonsense that serves the MIC but will kill Americans must stop. There is way too much going on in the world to allow these globalists, corporatists, and institutionalists to guide us into further folly.