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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (186975)	4/25/2022 7:33:01 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217752

Team <<Australia>> as led by Morrison thinks of Aussie red line as 3,200+ km away My passing observation, one word, 'Ambitious' ... especially that Team China as led by the Core Comrade, thinks of defence as a whole lot of kilometres and done remotely, what the military types term, 'beyond the horizon', and can actually already do 'it' A sampler from recent news flow (1) YJ-21 Eagle Strike hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile (as opposed to the slow and porky cruise variety) matched to the Type 055 'Destroyer' en.wikipedia.org (not a cruiser but larger than a cruiser, for Team China as you noted has sense of humour) navalnews.com The Chinese PLA Navy for the first time showed footage of the launch of a new hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile from a Project 055 destroyer. pic.twitter.com/Tdb6cz3UNR — rohan panchigar (@rohanpanchigar) April 19, 2022 (2) Destroyer or Cruiser Range 5,000 nautical miles (9,000 kilometres) - a coincidence, as distance from China to the Solomons is 8,000 kilometres. (3) Another coincidence, that the YJ-21 has a range of 1,500 km, not enough to reach Australia from the Solomons, unless the Team Aussie ships come out to play, and assuming Team China planes are not dispatched thedrive.com whilst carrying either the YJ-21 or the DF-21D welcome bouquet 空军轰6N挂载空射弹道导弹视频 pic.twitter.com/S4r03bcgK0 — lqy🇨🇳🇨🇳 (@lqy99021608) April 19, 2022 (4) The Pacific 'Ocean' is rapidly evolving into the Tranquil Lake, and with AI-enhanced underwater greatwall continuing to be rolled out, traffic policing shall become much easier en.wikipedia.org (5) Should the DF-21 lack sufficient range to keep peace, the DF-26 might do, w/ range of 5,000 km and should DF-26 come up short, DF-27, under test, can do harbour policing, etc etc bottom line, unclear what Team Australia has in mind to disturb the peace against its largest customer A genuine puzzle ...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (186975)	4/25/2022 8:36:07 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 217752

Saw that thing on "red lines"... and, somewhere between considering X chromosomes and color blindness... and typical male issues with discrimination and naming of various shades that are almost but not quite really "red"... no, it's probably not confusing green lines with red lines... or anything about properly discriminating nuance in shades... But, I'm sure, if they were allowed to... the crew at Saturday Night Live might have great fun with it... although, of course, there will be no such mirth making efforts that will be endorsed... The recent history in the use or obvious misuse of "red lines"... as made even more famous by Obama in Syria... appeared to not be any deterrent... ? So, clearly a judgement issue in seeking some simplified posturing that might be adopted... to convey that intended message of resolute strength... What exactly New Zealand intends to do in enforcement of their new maritime red lines... likely about as relevant as was asking what Germany was going to be doing about the problem of an excess in dependence on Russian oil and gas... other than building a pipeline to enable it ? So, as you see in Germany now... failed judgement once exposed... tends to result in over-reactions... as misplaced trust having been outed as such... requires diverting attention from ones own failures in judgement... to refocus others legitimate concern with the proofs in the lack of it... onto others, instead. Not that I think all that much more of Russians recent uses of "red lines" in justifying the writing of checks they can't cash... ? Your willingness to ignore other history... showing Putin about as equally concerned with others borders as most Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are... has you ignoring his interest in creating the conditions in eastern Ukraine that ensure there is a problem to be "solved" in the way he wants to have it be solved ? That likely should have been resolved... as the effort undertaken to defend Russians more proactively quickly proceeded into "safeguarding the rights of Russians in Kiev.".. /s No shortage apparent in colorblind-like issues that seem not yet to have been identified in their physiological origins... as both Russia and China only seek to defend the boundaries and peoples of Russia and China... but, the more defending they do... the more it turns out that the neighbors are actually also Russian and Chinese... equally longing to return to the loving embrace of the motherland they are not now and have never been a part of... It should be fun to watch and see how the Solomon Islanders will be growing increasingly Chinese over the next little while, until, they, too... are historically a vital part of ancient Chinese culture and historical legacies... making them... or at least their islands... into an inseparable part of China's natural patrimony... . I think Hitler would have blushed at the idea... but, Putin and Xi are nothing if not shameless... I see it mostly as validation of what I've been saying all along... that there is a clear deficit in the quality of leadership... that is both broad, deep, and nearly universal in its global distribution... Expecting people to not noticed it... when what they posture is flagrantly stupid ? It applies as a limit just as much to fictions about "nine dashed lines" in the South China Sea... or to Taiwan being an inseparable part included under the communist party's claim to legitimacy in control of mainland China... that likely never being about anything more than China sustaining strategic patience as a means of saving face in the wake of the civil war... as others deigned to play along with the self=delusion only as long as there was any obviously useful value in doing so... all just as much as it applies to red lines drawn by New Zealand in the Solomon Islands...or Putinesque delusions of glorious restorations of Czarist empires... The U.S. is largely both unwilling and unable to compete with those globalist clowns and nut jobs straight up... so, to find any sources of "cooperation" here they've had to fall back to recruiting from below the "B" team level... and cheating to get them elected... the results of which isn't exactly losing us any ground as far as the politics being converted into a source of high comedy... You have to laugh... even just noticing that no one thinks it credible to try to re-create a fluff bit of pro-propaganda through media like "The West Wing" just now ? They made a lame attempt at the opposite under Trump with "Space Force"... which failed to live up to its potential... mostly as overly controlled by those with a singular viewpoint... and without a sense of humor about what they were doing in relation to universal truths... rather than "the agenda". Otherwise, to try to keep up with the competition... we'd have to bring back Teddy Roosevelt to run the DoD. Blinken at State seems to fit fine... like a younger Dr, Strangelove... while we'd need to elect Mike Meyers as President... while requiring him to rule in character... i suspect the disappointment among the "globalists" will continue to grow... as they realize... almost no one is that stupid... all the time. And that makes the forced malleability of borders into a problem for them... whether they are seeking to disabuse people of attachments to them as they are redrawn by dint of force... or as they are erased by some failing sleights of hand in a little bit of force here, and a large bit of fraud and egregious corruption there... as in Europe... or the border with Mexico... Macron's "winning" is likely less than it seems, I suspect... given I don't see Macron's "vision" is surviving contact with the reality of what it creates... even in France... much less Europe, or "across the globe"... Just as the solution to high prices is high prices... the solution to globalism is globalism... Unfortunately,,, only one of them works with an invisible hand... Which, of course, requires that correction will not stop any of what's coming as a result of globalism's long and growing list of failures... just as high prices correcting the problem of high prices... doesn't obviate the pain imposed by them as they are being corrected...