Hello Maurice, <<The manoeuvres on China's territory haven't even begun. I wonder if those manoeuvres will be over on the border with Russia, or in a marine environment, or maybe planned for onshore Taiwan>>
... speculation is fun, and purer the speculation the more distilled the joy. You are limiting your imagination.
Perhaps, and just maybe, as the plan apparently calls for strategic bombers and submarines, but not a lot of soldiers, the games will be more of a longer distance reach from various bases, allocating force vectors around the ring of fire in all of the Pacific, perhaps encompassing mock-moves around Japan/Korea, but more Japan than Korea, taunting-motions around Fujian/Taiwan, but more Taiwan than Fujian, perhaps some special ops near where you are, and a surprising-landing in Tahiti, to hook up with the liberty-loving French, heck, maybe even a joint strut near where Snowshoe is, on way for a goodwill visit to freedom-loving SpottedCat; after all, that was Russian territory ... all to better keep the peace, you understand, since the King is kept very busy elsewhere, somewhere in Mesopotamia, which, by last reckoning is a long long distance away ;0)
I mean, after all, what would be the point of moving around hardware over the skies of Mongolia, and one cannot really transport a submarine to that admittedly very deep lake, much less two, from two different navies. I like the thought of Last Submarine Floating Tournament, but not in a bathtub.
I am fearful that your King George has single handedly revived an age-old game in which the US has had only 250 years of practice during its lucky time.
The good thing about nuclear democracy in whatever lopsided form is that it makes all nuclear states equal and nukes impotent, leaving matters to conventional assets.
The bad thing about conventional assets is that the assets useful in the last war to end all wars is not terribly useful in any coming conflict, as a rain of smart missiles render all old strategies old, however those strategies appear effective against desert tribes even as they proved not useful aginst determined foes in the jungle.
Further, the old conventional assets are expensive to maintain and prohibitive to operate, especially on borrowed financing.
I mean, when a Sunburn can disable a carrier, the carrier ceases to be effective, even as it is expensive to keep and hard to say goodbye to.
And so, the rest depends on human psychology and unity of purpose, or coincidence of interests, i.e. tactics and strategies, and occasionally, grand deliberate alliances and awesome coincidental coalitions, or cunning and smarts.
Think big Maurice, imagine rich.
As in Russia finances its revival by selling energy to J6P and China funds its revolution by selling dust-collectors to same J6P.
And both Russia and China are extracting savings from Japan and, in the case of China, factories from Saishoji-san, which and who in turn are also retrieving value from J6P.
J6P is very extremely important in this somewhat twisted world of ours :0)
In the meantime, the world believes that the Central Banks of the key states are keeping J6P afloat, not realizng that the 55 million overseas or ethnic Chinese with their trillion USD of liquid USD-space resident assets is in fact the key to the puzzle.
Is the schema and construct becoming clear to you?
Chugs, Jay |
