Gordon Chang’s post at RealClearDefense, a response to James Holmes’s post I commented on last week, explains why the South China Sea is one of the hottest areas in the world right now, one of the areas from which a major conflagration is most likely to emanate.
The Chinese leadership wants China’s status to rise, the United States’s status to fall, and to put its neighbors into a state of suzerainty. The only real question is the degree of brinksmanship that they’re willing to engage in to accomplish their goals.
It is possible that the US military right now is at or beyond maximum sustainable effort. A dozen or so wars all over Hell and back; deferred maintenance on all major weapon systems; half trained officers and servicemen deployed, some in combat; an obsolete nuclear deterrent needing trillions of dollars for replacement; …
Add to that a Ruling Class that is literally insane and focused on overturning a election. Will 2016 be our last presidential election?
Get out of Chicago and move to the Dakotas while you still can.
I’m thinking the Politburo takes a long view of Chinese expansionism. Beyond their own lifetimes. Which sets them far apart from Nazi Germany, led by one man, in a big hurry.