... sound. China's representative explains to the West its place.
Trump’s Schizophrenic Policy Towards Iran is Sabotaging Relations with China and Russia
Yes, it is legitimate to call it schizophrenia, especially against the background of Iran literally mocking and trolling Israel and the US. This place is a mental asylum.
... experienced "friendly fire" over Kuwait. Will wait and see what it is.
... it is NOT "the beginning of the end". Let me remind you when the real beginning started.
I observed for decades now a consistent pattern of the wrong assessments, loony strategies and deliberate misrepresentation (lies?) of facts coming from the top of US establishment, which since 1991 lives in the make-believe world built by the triumphalists. It is difficult to explain to the average Joe that Baseball World Series, or Superbowl "World Champions" have no relation to the World and are purely internal American affairs. That there is a huge wide world outside and that it lives and moves not in accordance to the American narrative. Explaining to American "elite" the fact that US didn't "win" the WW II, that "winning" the Cold War came about because Soviet people simply decided to end it, that Wall Street "economy" has no relation to real economy and that real wars produce misery and destruction on a scale which is incomprehensible for the "populace" of the Washington D.C. "strategists", it is not just difficult--it is next to impossible. So, the events must run the course. But it is already clear that by failing to achieve any sensible political objectives in Ukraine and in Russia, and, by this, starting a massive global re-alignment, the United States sustained a defeat. What will be the consequences of this defeat? I hate to speculate, I just know that they are already big and that the moment of facing the reality is coming. My suggestion to those who are still making decisions--open and start reading War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I don't hold my breath, though. The moment US handlers of their Kiev puppets conceived that Ukrainian Army can "win" in Donbass, the stopwatch started.
That was the beginning. Today, it is (not could be) a final exposure of the US as a military paper tiger capable only fighting weak, backward enemies. And still managing to lose. Real war is a damn serious business--last people in the US who understood that have been people the scale of Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall, they are not with us anymore. Iran just proved it. SMO continues and the crime against humanity of killing off millions of Ukrainian troops by throwing them against the concrete wall of Russian Armed Forces is squarely on the shoulders of combined West and its incompetent and arrogant militaries and intel services.
... and this is the Israeli (lack of) "air defense" in (lack of) action.
... which shines through in this video:
1. Jiang Xueqin strangely doesn't talk about what is being done to Israel, which is a devastation, to put it mildly and as the result ...
2. He merely re-narrates Israeli "plans" and views not pointing out that without the West Israel is but a shithole with a pathetic army capable only of punitive and genocidal actions. Good luck creating Greater Israel with that and Israeli "economy".
3. Parallels to Vietnam are wrong--Iran is not Vietnam and it has a direct geographic link to Russia, albeit North Vietnam has the common border with China. As Eric correctly pointed out about Vietnam War, Jiang Xueqin will be best advised to freshen up on his history (after all he teaches history, right?) and see for himself who has been doing the bulk of fighting and dying in Vietnam War and that wasn't the US. Correct, it was ARVN. The US did the only thing it can do well--bomb.
The only bright spot in his statements was correct pointing out that the US didn't fight the real war in decades. Right. In fact, culturally, resources-wise, operationally and socially the US cannot fight real combined arms operations of scale--it simply doesn't have military DNA for it. Nor, presently, economy is even remotely comparable (adjusted for time period) to the US massive industrial output in 1965-1975. And even then, inability to sustain the war forced Nixon to abandon gold standard. He talks about it all as if this is not happening, but it is ...
Each war represents an isolated case, requiring an understanding of its own particular logic, its own unique character (c) A.A. Svechin. Strategy.
Memorize it, internalize it.
