I don’t know that it would be possible for me to disagree with Con Coughlin’s column in the Telegraph, repeated here at MSN, more. His thesis is that
- China is a threat
- China is preparing for war
- “We” in the West are preparing to surrender
I don’t believe that any of those is true.
Quite to the contrary I think we—the United States—are our own biggest threat, that there is a risk of China’s being big, strong, and aggressive enough to threaten us, and that we’re responding by continuing to dismantle our own industrial infrastructure, import more of what we consume from China, redefining consumption as investment, and bickering among ourselves about matters that can only puzzle most of the world.
The US is about to sanction the export to Russia of a long list of household products, things like toasters, washing machines, water heaters…, all stuff we don’t make. Are we going to sanction the countries that do make, and trade with Russia. Will we try to shut down Samsung?
Of course, one again we are opening up markets for Russian companies.
PS The US is now lying about the success of the Patriot against Kinshal hypersonic missles and the destruction of the Patriot batteries. They are even denying that Russia has hypersonic missiles.
PPS An unreported story (in the US) is the widespread failure and vulnerability of many os the weapons that have been sent to Ukraine.
I’m reading conflicting reports and I honestly don’t know what to believe. I was thinking of posting on it. I’ve seen a video claiming to be of the attacks along with considerable analysis.
Depending on who you read and what you believe either the Patriot missiles were completely successful in defending against the Russian missiles (including hypersonics) or the Russian missiles completely destroyed the Patriots. If the Patriots were destroyed (as has been claimed), it was a pretty costly loss—something like a half billion dollars.
I guess one way of negotiating the conflicting stories is to see how Raytheon does on sales of the Patriot missiles but that’s kind of a long time to wait.
The problem is agency, the Chinese only permit to the top while us Americans (at least try) to permit to everyone. Yet many would rather eat lotus than deal with a tyranny of the loud and raucous.
I’m reading conflicting reports and I honestly don’t know what to believe.
You can apply this statement to almost everything in the “news†today: Patriot missiles, Durham Report, FBI collusion with dems, COVID statistics, climate change predictions and fears, the circumstances surrounding the J6 protests and illegal surveillance by the FBI, Norstream sabotage, the 2020 & 2022 election malfeasance, the current debt ceiling Dem/Republican debate, for starters.