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Grooming On An International Scale
Feb. 12th, 2023 08:45 pmThe story so far... China has been rattling its sabres & claiming increasing amounts of Asia as its own, both by stealth & a kind of 'Well, it's ours now, what are you going to do about it?!" schoolyard bully posturing, angering not only its direct neighbours, but the established 'powers' like the USA &, to a much lesser power, Australia
Now - a former US diplomat (why is it always a 'former' diplomat... or politician, or general?? Surely it's safer, at a personal level at least, to say this sort of thing out loud when you have an army behind you - even if it is just a bunch of angry civil servants) has claimed that Australia is being set up as the Ukraine of South-East Asia, in that China will be allowed to invade us, in order for the USA to wage its own war against China by proxy, just as it's fighting Russia by supplying Ukraine with weapons & technology, but no actual troops
As far-fetched as that sounds, I suppose it's not beyond the limits of belief. The British were quite prepared to let Australia be invaded by the Japanese in WWII, having evacuated Singapore with barely a shot fired, thinking that invading a large landmass like ours would spread the Japanese too thin & weaken their overall strength... It's kind of like invading Russia - the place is too damned big to have any kind of meaningful & useful control over & large portions of the landscape are inhospitable, or downright uninhabitable. Ask the French & Germans... about Russia I mean, not Australia... yet. So it's a tried & true tactic to let your enemy advance past its realistic limits, much as Russia has found out in the battle with its own inadequate capacity to supply its troops in Ukraine
The only problem I see with this scenario is that our elected leader doesn't have a little fingernail's amount of the kind of charisma & inspirational qualities displayed constantly by Zelenskyy... We're doomed!
Now - a former US diplomat (why is it always a 'former' diplomat... or politician, or general?? Surely it's safer, at a personal level at least, to say this sort of thing out loud when you have an army behind you - even if it is just a bunch of angry civil servants) has claimed that Australia is being set up as the Ukraine of South-East Asia, in that China will be allowed to invade us, in order for the USA to wage its own war against China by proxy, just as it's fighting Russia by supplying Ukraine with weapons & technology, but no actual troops
As far-fetched as that sounds, I suppose it's not beyond the limits of belief. The British were quite prepared to let Australia be invaded by the Japanese in WWII, having evacuated Singapore with barely a shot fired, thinking that invading a large landmass like ours would spread the Japanese too thin & weaken their overall strength... It's kind of like invading Russia - the place is too damned big to have any kind of meaningful & useful control over & large portions of the landscape are inhospitable, or downright uninhabitable. Ask the French & Germans... about Russia I mean, not Australia... yet. So it's a tried & true tactic to let your enemy advance past its realistic limits, much as Russia has found out in the battle with its own inadequate capacity to supply its troops in Ukraine
The only problem I see with this scenario is that our elected leader doesn't have a little fingernail's amount of the kind of charisma & inspirational qualities displayed constantly by Zelenskyy... We're doomed!
