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Post by milspec on Aug 24, 2021 6:18:21 GMT 10
A bad precedent has been set by the chaotic US withdrawl. The incompetence of the Biden administration is becoming increasingly evident and allies are increadingly losing faith in the US. These same factors are totally playing into the hands of China. Check out the unprecedented public high level allied criticism here. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/biden-s-afghanistan-botch-up-will-invite-beijing-to-try-its-luck-20210823-p58l1d.htmlThis is yet more evidence of the decline of the US and facilitation of the rise of China and Chinese global goals. Perhaps not the greatest time for Australia to be reliant on a fickle, fractured and declining power. IMHO this is a solid indicator of where the US is heading and definitely sound cause to build on and improve my preparedness efforts.
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Post by frostbite on Aug 24, 2021 7:04:38 GMT 10
I'm wondering what mandating covid vaccine for all US military personnel will do to their combat effectiveness. How many will be discharged for refusing the vaccine, how will that impact how many assets they can deploy. It's not like they are paid well, so many might just leave the US military.
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Post by milspec on Aug 24, 2021 7:13:44 GMT 10
I'm wondering what mandating covid vaccine for all US military personnel will do to their combat effectiveness. How many will be discharged for refusing the vaccine, how will that impact how many assets they can deploy. It's not like they are paid well, so many might just leave the US military. Tbh, I doubt that many service personnel would baulk at the vaccine. However I suspect that many are conservative and feel jaded by the direction that the Democrats and their feeble leader are presently taking the country. I consider that to be a more likely cause for personnel retention problems in the US military and police. That's my 2c worth :/
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Post by milspec on Aug 24, 2021 7:33:08 GMT 10
Here's an FYI re US military force structure and direction. It was published Oct 2020. At the time of publication it noted Russia as the most likely superpower threat rather than China . It does talk about a shift away from light forces necessary in regional conflict to heavy forces for superpower conflict. (After 2 decades of seeing Coalition forces succeed in Middle Eastern regional conflicts I suspect your average Joe citizen doesn't appreciate, how vastly different warfare (& casualties & defeats) will look against a superpower where air superiority is not guaranteed due to opposing force Air Defence assets). I'm interested to see what the 2021 edition of this report would reveal. www.csis.org/analysis/us-military-forces-fy-2021-army
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Post by spinifex on Aug 24, 2021 8:27:11 GMT 10
The really dumb thing about the rise of a belligerent China ... is that it was enabled by the very richest class of American society in their attempts to get even richer. First by embracing business models and lobbying for national policies that favoured off-shore productive assets and workforce over their own country and people. Then by pushing a social engineering agenda that is going to have dire consequences for every single western nation and weaken them in ways never thought possible.
China has been social engineering towards uniformity and cohesion ... while US, Europe and Oz has been engineering towards diversity and identity separation (under a smokescreen of rainbows and unicorns 'inclusiveness'.
I don't think either is better or worse than the other. Both approaches have advantages and deep flaws. In times of warfare ... cohesion and uniformity is superior.
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Post by Beno on Aug 24, 2021 9:29:38 GMT 10
The really dumb thing about the rise of a belligerent China ... is that it was enabled by the very richest class of American society in their attempts to get even richer. First by embracing business models and lobbying for national policies that favoured off-shore productive assets and workforce over their own country and people. Then by pushing a social engineering agenda that is going to have dire consequences for every single western nation and weaken them in ways never thought possible. China has been social engineering towards uniformity and cohesion ... while US, Europe and Oz has been engineering towards diversity and identity separation (under a smokescreen of rainbows and unicorns 'inclusiveness'. I don't think either is better or worse than the other. Both approaches have advantages and deep flaws. In times of warfare ... cohesion and uniformity is superior. We all all culpable in the rise of China. Our our obsession with cheap chinese crap built the beast. If you don’t like it don’t buy chinese. The problem with that is now it’s hard to find local suppliers and even harder to find ones that have a viable economic/business model that even tries to be competitive. Australian businesses love mega profits and far too many will rip you off with a glint of glee in their eye. Look at harvey norman, they sell you years old tech for cutting edge new tech prices. Yet yhe gov props them up cause they squeal about jobs when times get tough.
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Post by milspec on Aug 24, 2021 10:56:52 GMT 10
The really dumb thing about the rise of a belligerent China ... is that it was enabled by the very richest class of American society in their attempts to get even richer. First by embracing business models and lobbying for national policies that favoured off-shore productive assets and workforce over their own country and people. Then by pushing a social engineering agenda that is going to have dire consequences for every single western nation and weaken them in ways never thought possible. China has been social engineering towards uniformity and cohesion ... while US, Europe and Oz has been engineering towards diversity and identity separation (under a smokescreen of rainbows and unicorns 'inclusiveness'. I don't think either is better or worse than the other. Both approaches have advantages and deep flaws. In times of warfare ... cohesion and uniformity is superior. I couldn't agree more that the root cause of our deteriorating system is greed for profit. Everything is sacrificed (National capabilities & infrastructure) for that. It is unsustainable. It is also irreversible (the rich aren't suddenly going to turn mass philanthropic for the good of the nation). It will result in the demise of the democratic system we are presently a part of. People have long forgotten lessons & existential priorities of previous world wars. So all the ingredients are there to do it again and this time as you say we'll face it with a quite divided society and a fragile system. Well, that's mornos over for me ... back to the veggie garden.
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