While we were living through an invasion, usurped government dictatorship, peak wokeness, the scamdemic, child grooming story hours, UkriNazi grift wars, and an unmitigated homeless and fentanyl crisis, the Chinese have been bolstering their strategic nuclear arsenal like it's 1989.
I predicted Russia would take everything East of the Dniper and West to Odessa across the North Shore of the Black Sea - which now, three+ years later - appears to be the consensus among the "recognized experts" in geopolitical threat analysis.
The other previously unpopular, but equally likely prediction I made was about China, being a future threat to Russia. The two powers are in a relationship of convenience right now. That relationship shares a common mistress: Iran.
A day will come when Iran cannot sustain mutual loyalty to Russia, which they share a long history and Caspian Sea trade route with; and China, who is arguably the chief sponsor and enabler of their nuclear development programs and enriched material security protocols.
Trump is right to focus on the South & Central America regional threat. We need to close-down and secure our intermediate space. We need to project our influence, backed up with our power, into the same space.
The Chinese are on the verge of an imperialist renaissance. They WILL take BOTH Hong Kong and Taiwan. That is more of an internal messaging priority than a strategic one. It will play to bokster the CCP Nationalism dogma ahead of their kick-off of global military and political expansion.
The nukes are not for America. Those nukes are insurance against Russia and Iran. Those nukes are leverage over the African and Asian nations under the thumb of Chinese influence. Those nukes are a reminder to Australia and New Zealand that the CCP will get what they want, when they want, from those two feckless cuck nations - including continued promiscuous access to all fiveeyes intelligence.
We really can't do much about China's African & APAC infiltration and dominance. Those ships sailed while USA was distracted with internal societal arsonists and equal measures of subversive Democrat & Republican treachery against our Republic.
So, the Chinese nukes... This is indeed suboptimal, but certainly not surprising. As I have said before, and finally now groupthink is noticing: Our threats are within our own fence lines, which include the Northern Passage (Artic Sea), Panama, and both the Pacific & Gulf of America "oceanic lobes" - including Atlantic and Pacific coastlines.
With respect to Canada - their metropolitan liberal-feftist voter concentration has muted the other 90% by acreage of population as has been the same for Oregon, Washington, California, Illinois, Michigan, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Virginia, and other US States. We need to help Canada break itself, and either take their underpopulated regions through diplomacy, or force. If we don't, China will eventually build strategic air bases and missile silos within their provinces.
The USA should abandon NATO, ally with Russia, abandon the EU, strongly encourage relocation of US-Chinese manufacturing to South American countries; Regime change Canada, and put Israel on notice that our nation's treasury & military are not Zionist assets. To drive that point home - Dual Citizenship must be disallowed in ANY level of political office, or any US policy/leadership capacity.
Tragic indeed... And critical for officer safety to examine how many times this officer had to fck with his optic under stress to compensate for the lighting conditions. Optics on defensive handguns are fking stupid, dangerous, and lethal distractions when milliseconds matter.
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