PostmodernProphet (01-13-2022)
PostmodernProphet (01-13-2022)
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
No offense, but you do not know what you are talking about on this.
America is still much more powerful than China, militarily.
But the later is closing the gap...fast.
Army - they have thoroughly modern equipment in the Type 99 MBT, Type 08 APC system, PLZ-05 SPA/PHL-03-MRL, numerous modern IFV's and WZ-10 attack helicopter.
Some of these are close/equal to NATO's equipment.
Air Force - most of their present inventory is based on the latest Russian combat aircraft like the J-11 and J-16.
However, the Chinese have developed several aircraft of their own including the J-10 (similar to a high Block F-16) and the fifth-generation stealth J-20. With the JH-7 for multi-role, attack duties.
Navy - they have 2x65,000 ton aircraft carriers. And are building an 85,000 ton one. With up to 4x110,000 ton (that is Ford Class size) Type 004 aircraft carriers that could be finished by the early 2030's.
And they are also developing an F-35 type aircraft (J-31) for their Navy with similar capabilities.
Plus, they are building large numbers of thoroughly, modern cruisers and destroyers (including the HUGE, 13,000 ton Type 55 cruisers). 45 to be in service by 2022. All built this millennium alone.
Also, they have built 34xType 54A frigates in just the last 14 years.
Finally, they have built 8x25,000+ ton Amphibious transport ships - all in the last 14 years. And have 3 amphibious assault ships that are up to 40,000 tons. With 5 more on order.
However, if they continue to develop their hypersonic missiles.
And if they perform as promised?
They could render America's Carrier Strike Groups obsolete - if manufactured in sufficient numbers.
I explain more here:
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...29#post4831529
China is by NO MEANS militarily weak any longer. They have built and are continuing to build and develop large numbers of modern, weapons systems that are close to or equal with many NATO standard ones.
And as I mentioned in other threads? China - at it's present rate of GDP growth - will pass America's GDP within 8 or 9 years.
And pass her GDP per capita average within 50-55 years.
If these milestones are reached - they will then be free to produce truly, gigantic numbers of modern, indigenous-designed, weapons systems.
I already know what you will say - 'you are wrong'.
And you will post ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to back that up...as usual.
So I will not bother wasting my time looking for your reply.
Thus, my answer to it is -
'Fine.
Believe whatever you like.'
We are done here.
Bye now.'
Blackwater Lunchbreak (01-13-2022), Into the Night (01-13-2022), McRocket (01-13-2022)
Into the Night (01-13-2022)
America has to get off it's collective butt and a) balance the frigging budget.
And b) get the Fed/federal government to LEAVE the economy alone so that the GDP can grow at a far higher rate than it has over the last 15 years or so.
All that is happening now is the people are fighting each other.
While the government prints money with a turbocharger.
And the Fed is destroying free enterprise.
It's not too late...but we have to change things soon.
Though right now?
I see no urgency to do ANY of these things.
Matt Dillon (01-13-2022)
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Like saying a couple's twelve year old ceases to be it's lawful child by running away from home.
The other myth from Civil War apologists is that secession was simply a lawful exercise of state's rights - "a matter of principle, dear fellow". A crock of shit is what that is, invented after the war was over.
Secession was entirely about slavery. The two sticking points were 1) refusal by northern states to vigorously enforce the federal fugitive slave law that legally denied sanctuary to escaped slaves and 2) the continuing admission into the union of new, free states thereby upsetting the balance in Congress between free and slave states. If there's any doubt about South Carolina's slavery concerns as the state's one and only justification for leaving the union, take a couple of minutes and read its Declaration of Secession.
https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/...ecession-1860/
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Into the Night (01-13-2022)
Blackwater Lunchbreak (01-13-2022), Into the Night (01-13-2022)
Nothing in the Constitution stated states can un-ratify their ratification for that or any other reason. And, curiously, the argument that ratification didn't really mean ratification doesn't seem to have occurred to the members of the South Carolina legislature when they put in writing their justification for secession.
Last edited by martin; 01-13-2022 at 06:57 AM.
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
McRocket (01-13-2022)
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