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Monday, March 20, 2023

2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, La

Reconnaissance Marines @ Ground Reconnaissance Course (GRC) at Camp Wilson on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California

2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division conducts gun raid

26th MEU MEUEX III Raid

Chinese Marines about to get the Z-8L...think CH-53D for comparison (I think!)

Exactly for this I am waiting since months … a naval variant of the Army Aviation‘s Z-8L maybe for the PLANMC as a replacement or complement for the Z-8C. pic.twitter.com/wH3hj8xH0C
— @Rupprecht_A (@RupprechtDeino) March 20, 2023

Has anyone noticed that the Chinese have NOT copied the V-22? I wonder what they see that makes them pause...

Why does the White House almost seem to be in a virtual panic because China and Russia are talking?

Have you been monitoring the news about the Russia/China talks and how the White House is responding?

From my chair it almost borders on pure panic.

But why?

I don't have a good answer but I'm thinking its the potential that they (Russia and China) could throw everything out of whack and disrupt the "plan".

What do I mean?

It appears obvious that the Pentagon, White House, and Ukraine fanatics would like to deal with Russia first then FINALLY pivot to the China problem.

Which leads me to the next theory.

If I was China's president I would back Russia to the hilt. I would damn near dare the West to try sanctions and if they did I would retaliate in full.

If I was in his chair I would guess that every leader in the West that supported sanctions would beg for some type of accommodation and Russia could be talked into limited gains.

They'd get Crimea and the two Russia speaking districts(?). Then declare the war over.

Meanwhile the economy of the West is in tatters (the banking issue shows how fragile things are right now) and China can turn to taking Taiwan with the US basically standing alone with NO European support (I think that was a fantasy anyway), serious diplomatic effort along with the threat of Japan can keep S. Korea on the sidelines, and the Australian Air Force and Navy are just too small to really make a difference.

Additionally our war stocks have been eviscerated and if they wait till early next year they'll be damn near expended to keep Ukraine in the fight.

We keep doing the long war thing and it keeps failing horribly.