@DarkNoon @DEFCON Warning System As I was looking again through the article and one of the recent podcasts Nyquist did, his sources inside China have stated that the window is anywhere from now until October, pushed up from later this decade due to the CCP's concerns over Covid investigations. Nyquist discusses unconventional methods such as introducing a new virus, taking out the power grid to hopefully spark off mass riots, blinding command and control to remove the technological advantages we have or preventing our sub captains from firing retaliatory strikes, etc. They also discuss the theory that China has already smuggled equipment into the US, Canada, Mexico, and that there are plenty of PLA troops already here - in universities, etc. Is this type of trojan horse scenario plausible?
Parts of it are, parts not.
cyber attack, escalated espionage, continued questionable bioethics abuses or “possibly” release. Those are all possible.
It mostly will just be because of continued sweet heart deals for politicians or political supporters.
In today’s Global economic environment Those institutions or donors who directly benefit from Chinas or any other nations influence buying in my mind are no longer American. They’ve already changed their allegiances to another nation. By the definition of citizenship you modify your behaviors and actions to the betterment of the nation to which you are a citizen, not another.
The notion that there are somehow significant hostiles in the US to initiate and wage a war of conquest is where I become skeptical.
Are or could there be hostile actors in the country to initiate industrial and infrastructure attacks? That’s defiantly on the table.
That’s the danger of asymmetric warfare. It is to carry out the conflict where the frog doesn’t even recognize the temperature the waters getting hotter and hotter.
Those that get rich because of another nations largess have already jumped out of the kettle.
The conflict is already on. It’s just not a conventional one where bombs are flying and MEU’s are being sent to Taiwan to thwart an imminent chines invasion.
It’s just like the collapse of the USSR. No major battles were ever fought. The US just kept upping the anti to the point the USSR had to fold at least for the near term.
Americans refuse to believe or cannot accept the same thing is being done to us.
The CCP corrupts US politicians and public dialogue just as much as large corporations and 1%’s do.
In some cases their one in the same.
Contrary to what some might argue the CCP is just as much a corporation with executives as is Amazon or Microsoft. The CCP just owns their own nation.
Some will argue that but centralized power is just that centralized power.
Call it what you will.
All those who talk about secret battalions of UN troops or Russian or chines troops in the country do the conflict no benefit. Spy’s or terrorist sure it’s a given their probably here.
but army’s of conquest? That just not how this war is being fought.