The MSM presses and air waves are buzzing concerning the joint military exercise between the Russians and Chinese. They wasted no time parading out their military experts expressing their gloom and doom over how the Iraq War has degraded our abilities to counter a Chi-Russian threat. And predictably, how George Bush has ignored other threats in the world.People if you think that our intelligence miss either of these military forces could moving that amount of manpower and equipment, you need to lay off the Kool-aid. I find it laughable that the media would suppose that we were caught flat footed by this military exercise. It seems that if our intelligence community is that negligent, the liberals really don't have much to fear with the government tapping phones, there probably won't be anyone listening.
This exercise is no surprise, I have always felt the Russians are not trustworthy. They are like a wounded Bear, the conversion to a capitalist society has not gone well for them. They have continually bullied their former Warsaw-Pact ally states with energy embargoes. And Putin is seizing more power daily. He has re-instituted long-range bomber flights for the first time since the end of the cold war, and now this.
As for the Chinese, I don't believe they have any interest in allying themselves with the Russians. It is advantageous for them to keep the them close. That has been Bejings strategy for years. But I see no real threat coming from the Chinese towards the United States. Unless they expect their military to feed the burgeoning growth of their economy, the still need US dollars for that. However, as time advances I do see the relations between the Chinese and ourselves growing cold. Especially, if outrage over tainted products continues.
The gloom and doomer's have also forgotten a very important deterrent that we possess. Our nuclear capability isn't their to give the liberal kooks something to protest. Its there to remind nation threats like a regressed Mother Russia that yes, you might be able to win a force on force conflict with us, but it won't advance your position if you have no home to return to. As theirs serves to remind us of the same.
I've contended for years that the cold war has never ended. The only thing that has changed is the names of the participants and the number of nations involved. The old politics of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) and peace through superior firepower is as viable today as it was 30 years ago. We need not ignore it.
