To: ggersh who wrote (202789 ) 11/20/2023 7:37:46 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217661 Re <<I'm guessing that "Doctorates" ain't what they used to be....UFB >> The news flow is un-goodVIDEO Iran / Persia just unveiled own hypersonic geewhizbangohwhoawee flying thing that cannot be countered (1) a few questions, naturally be, that ...(i) how did Persia work out the details of widget without access to hypersonic wind tunnel w/I Persia (ii) from zero-state get-go, how were the material science issues resolved so handily (2) reminds me of the way N Korea skipped a few generations of research, and jumped from consistently failing to launch liquid-fuelled intermediate-range rocketry and went directly to the solid-fuelled Russian Topol-M-esque ICBM with Washington DC easily within range 2023 09 11 Message 34412888 2023 09 06 Message 34406599 (3) Suspicious minds might conjure up conspiracies re inter-cultural exchanges going on under broad daylight (4) Me thinks democracy of rocketry happening, and Team Russia wants a few nations to have what Russia has, by way of lateral escalations, IOW playing hardball, very hardball (5) As to Mr Mike Gallagher's project to break China, a civilisation-state that has been around for awhile. Am wondering how long a time line he thinks he has, before 2045, at which point Team USA in colour is calculated to demographically resemble proto-S Africa / late-Brazil, and unclear how folks collectively feel about wars in Global South coloured worlds. I am told that (remain agnostic but in mode of watch & brief) ...- Demographics is destiny might be correct after all older whites and - younger blacks and hispanics, - together with a few dollops of inconvenient minorities, etc etc, - combined with inter- / intra-generational social payment transfers, etc etc - interesting progression of social experiment coming up, through 2026 / 2032, and - at some juncture between 2032 - 2045 Europe, along with Israel, shall have to establish own security architecture on basis that is independent of Team USA, because of the demographic change of Team USA, a guess