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Although I could never imagine living in China (too ornery and question-asking prone to survive there very long),the one thing I appreciate about the way in which the Chinese government does things, is how it secures its energy needs without firing a single shot.
It appears to me a real, and very workable, alternative to the US's hamfisted, militaristic of "kill them all, God will find His own" approach to securing its energy requirements.
Of course, we have seen how brilliantly THAT approach has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And unfortunately, we are looking at a potential US/Israeli strike against Iran, the arguments for which advance the "good reason" (to date, completely unproven) that Iran is making nuclear weapons, when the "real reason" is engineering a "regime change" in the Iranian government, which will create a more Western-Centric government, and where oil flows to Western countries relatively inexpensively.
Such a military campaign is fraught with horrendous unintended consequences for the US. If this campaign is not a blitzkrieg, executed with deadly precision, this war may well drag on for some time. The US government doesn't have the troop strength, the money, or the manufacturing to successfully pursue a sustained war.
Also, leaders of nuclear armed China, Russia, and Iran have gone public, stating that should Iran be attacked, they will come to its aid. So what we have here is the potential for a global, thermonuclear war over an alleged Iranian weapons program, which cannot, to date, be proven to exist.
I would like to hope that the above considerations will give those in the bowels of power in DC and Tel Aviv pause before launching such an attack on a country which hasn't initiated a war in over 200 years.
Of course, logic can hardly be characterized as the strongest element of foreign policy in either country right now.
Although I could never imagine living in China (too ornery and question-asking prone to survive there very long),the one thing I appreciate about the way in which the Chinese government does things, is how it secures its energy needs without firing a single shot.
It appears to me a real, and very workable, alternative to the US's hamfisted, militaristic of "kill them all, God will find His own" approach to securing its energy requirements.
Of course, we have seen how brilliantly THAT approach has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And unfortunately, we are looking at a potential US/Israeli strike against Iran, the arguments for which advance the "good reason" (to date, completely unproven) that Iran is making nuclear weapons, when the "real reason" is engineering a "regime change" in the Iranian government, which will create a more Western-Centric government, and where oil flows to Western countries relatively inexpensively.
Such a military campaign is fraught with horrendous unintended consequences for the US. If this campaign is not a blitzkrieg, executed with deadly precision, this war may well drag on for some time. The US government doesn't have the troop strength, the money, or the manufacturing to successfully pursue a sustained war.
Also, leaders of nuclear armed China, Russia, and Iran have gone public, stating that should Iran be attacked, they will come to its aid. So what we have here is the potential for a global, thermonuclear war over an alleged Iranian weapons program, which cannot, to date, be proven to exist.
I would like to hope that the above considerations will give those in the bowels of power in DC and Tel Aviv pause before launching such an attack on a country which hasn't initiated a war in over 200 years.
Of course, logic can hardly be characterized as the strongest element of foreign policy in either country right now.
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