Hi energyplay, <<Even an informal alliance between China and the U.S. would scare the crap out of everybody>> ... sort of like a Cisco-Huawei strategic alliance would be to the likes of SUN, HP, and Dell ;0?
In any case, nothing to worry about such an alliance as yet, because the US believes it can police the world in cooperation with UK and Israel, and China is probably studying how Taiwan can be 'liberated' without 'street-to-street', and Taiwan may watching the Iraq campaign development with alarm, as in 'holy sh*t, how are we suppose to defend ourselves as the US occupies itself with ever greater global obligations'.
In the mean nasty time, I wonder what the IRA is thinking right at this moment when 25% of UK forces are busy elsewhere. UK may then end up having to do house-to-house in Northern Ireland and even in downtown London.
OTOH, I suppose, should Indonesian military feel up to it and perky, a palace coup and a grab for oil-rich Brunei may be considered, and if they feel real perky, make a go for small Australia.
And oh, while I am visualizing scenario headlines, I might as well consider the real possibility that India may take a go at Pakistan, and the less real possibility of Russia doing a preemptive strike against a potential future threat from Poland, seeing how busy the Polish troops may be in Iraq, a long way from home.
The world may turn real dramatic and busy should this Iraqi thing drag on for a bit.
I wonder if all of the above have been accounted for in anyone's contingency plans?
I also ask myself again and once more, where will all the contingency financing come from?
Chugs, Jay |
