I strongly disagree. While they lack experience and technological creativity (which they mostly copy), they have enormous resources, industry and manpower, and a nationalistic mindset that can easily be geared for war. They have also been also incredibly studious in recent decades, as you can see from their massive international student cohort, and have been focusing their efforts on asymmetric doctrines. Modern Communist China is also nothing like the vulnerable Qing Dynasty China that you're actually referring to.
Remember that they also pushed the US-led UN forces straight through South Korea when they got too close to the border. Remember also that they possess a small nuclear arsenal. While they have no firepower to reach the US mainland or her pacific territories, they have no intention of doing so conventionally. Their conventional fighting force is built primarily to control their local region, the West Pacific Theater and the Sinosphere, which especially includes Taiwan.
You had better not underestimate this monstrous nation.
That's fantastic, I'm happy for you. Keep having those conversations with God. You'll be surprised at how subtly but surely he answers.
And remember, he will lead you into storms, but he'll also guide you through them for long as you have faith in him.
I hope to God no. Taiwan has a vibrancy that cannot be found in Communist China.
It brings to mind the air raid drills that they practice. The sirens that they use have a distinct sound that warns of the terrible threat across the strait. It's interesting to hear but also frightening:
Transcript:
Alright Folks, get your popcorn ready baby.
It's Friday night, and the first movie I want to introduce on my 2021 learning list is Midway (2019) [by Roland Emmerich].
This is the one that just recently came out and it's absolutely an incredible movie and something I think you should consider watching here on a beautiful Friday night.
This movie actually starts several years before World War II in 1937 when naval attaché Lieutenant-Commander Layton gets intelligence that Japan will act if the United States threatens its oil supply, and we know what happens several years later on the 7th of December in 1941. And so that intelligence led to later actions and it's something we can learn from.
This movie highlights many areas of leadership, and trust by commanders, and it's something that all leaders today can learn from, especially as we pivot to the Pacific.
[It also highlights] the importance of tough, and realistic training with naval aviators taking extreme risks in order to sink the Japanese fleet and build American momentum.
There's also great respect for intelligence professionals with Joe Rochefort and his cryptologic professionals, his team there providing time-sensitive intelligence to his commander, Admiral Nimitz. And this movie also highlights the incredible bravery of the Doolittle Raiders led by then Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle who later became a general and a Medal of Honour recipient.
Naval history and Heritage Command says this is by far the more realistic movie about naval combat ever made.
So folks, it's Friday night. Enjoy a good movie. Try Midway.
Transcriber's comment: It feels like he's implying that the conflict between Imperial Japan and the United States is being echoed in today's conflict between the People's Republic of China and the United States, and that Midway is a good model for what's currently happening in our "battlespace".
You're right. You can't even link to a specific post, and links to videos and other media are screwy at best. It's a clunky UI, and sketch as hell with the account sign-in, and TBH can't hold a candle to Twitter which has the better overall system.
It certainly is getting hot. In this video here, Trump cryptically shows a red folder on Eric Trump's birthday, Jan 6, and his kids kinda stop as though they were told "Now, now, behave yourselves."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SRY4CX1Ds
Apparently a red folder in the military is for "hot action" and is meant for processing right away.
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US-Navy-use-blue-folders-for-correspondence/answer/Dave-Stohs
Source post (Tweet deleted):
https://thedonald.win/p/11RhOvKF7R/trump-holding-red-folder-for-eri/c/
Transcript:
Alright Folks, get your popcorn ready baby.
It's Friday night, and the first movie I want to introduce on my 2021 learning list is Midway (2019) [by Roland Emmerich].
This is the one that just recently came out and it's absolutely an incredible movie and something I think you should consider watching here on a beautiful Friday night.
This movie actually starts several years before World War II in 1937 when naval attaché Lieutenant-Commander Layton gets intelligence that Japan will act if the United States threatens its oil supply, and we know what happens several years later on the 7th of December in 1941. And so that intelligence led to later actions and it's something we can learn from.
This movie highlights many areas of leadership, and trust by commanders, and it's something that all leaders today can learn from, especially as we pivot to the Pacific.
[It also highlights] the importance of tough, and realistic training with naval aviators taking extreme risks in order to sink the Japanese fleet and build American momentum.
There's also great respect for intelligence professionals with Joe Rochefort and his cryptologic professionals, his team there providing time-sensitive intelligence to his commander, Admiral Nimitz. And this movie also highlights the incredible bravery of the Doolittle Raiders led by then Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle who later became a general and a Medal of Honour recipient.
Naval history and Heritage Command says this is by far the more realistic movie about naval combat ever made.
So folks, it's Friday night. Enjoy a good movie. Try Midway.
Transcriber's comment: It feels like he's implying that the conflict between Imperial Japan and the United States is being echoed in today's conflict between the People's Republic of China and the United States, and that Midway is a good model for what's currently happening in our "battlespace".
It's normal for NIGHT76 to take sudden 90° turns to its intended destination. In fact, looking at its FlightAware history, that's its regular pattern.
Perhaps there's an important command installation there seeing as how it's one of the largest AFBs in the U.S. If Trump is indeed on NIGHT76, then it would make sense to muster and prepare forces here than in DC which is deep enemy territory.
You won't find that information anywhere on the internet. If we could, then their OPSEC has failed miserably.
All we know is that Trump isn't where the public thinks he is.
EDIT: To add to this, there's a reason why it's more of a rumour than a certainty. If the enemy are certain, then the enemy can concentrate all 100% of their forces on that location. But if not, then if they commit all 100% then they can be flanked from the rear, so then if there's a possibility that Trump is in another location then they must split their forces 50-50%, or 33-33-33% if there's a leaked (but false) third location. Then it becomes easier to defeat the enemy "in detail" with a small force.
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, (Oh lord)
And I've been waiting for this moment, for all my life, (Oh lord)
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord, (Oh lord)
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Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
.
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies.
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And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, (Oh lord)
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, (Oh lord)
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life oh Lord, (Oh Lord)
.
Well I remember, I remember don't worry
How could I ever forget
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep this silence up
.
No you don't fool me
The hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me
.
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, (Oh lord)
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh lord, (Oh lord)
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh lord
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I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh lord, (Oh lord, Oh lord)
Well I've been waiting for this
Moment for all my life, oh lord, (Oh lord)
I can feel it in the air tonight, Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment all my life, oh Lord, Lord.
I'm also an Aussiepede, and you're not alone in being in a dark place. I'm not sure if it helps but here's what I'm going through as well.
I bet a year's worth of my savings on a Trump victory. I had been saving up that for my first car, and I thought gee those odds look juicy, I'd be a fool not to bet on it and multiply that amount by 3. I was even hoping to maybe make my family proud for bringing in a surprise investment. Then the election fraud delivered me a gut-punch, and over the past two months I was clinging on for something to turn around the result.
But as you can see nothing came out of it, except perhaps resentment for my making the bet in the first place, and I've got no one really to admit what I'd done, not even to my own mother, who would cry shame on me for making such a bet (not to mention she doesn't like him) and losing all that money. The fact that all the official sources have been working against this hasn't helped. Now I'm wide awake to our reality and to the blatant cheating, malevolence and evil, and it's devastating and lonely. I felt like God can only help me at this point, so I've been praying privately since my church only takes bookings now.
It's like the bushfires we had at the beginning of last year. That one suffocated our cities across the east coast. An inferno swept through and burned all the weeds and deadwood, leaving behind ashes and devastation in its wake. It's made much worse in Australia because the indigenous Australians are stonewalled by government and are keep too far in poverty by the welfare nanny state to tend to the land. By making the bet, I'm like the city-dweller who bought a property in the bush only to have the bushfires burn it all down. Everything lost except the clothes on my back, whoever and whatever I could fit in the car, and myself.
So how do we get out of it? Well, says God, you've also still got your land and any surviving neighbours and maybe even your place in the community. And now you've got to rebuild a new dwelling place, without all the weeds and deadwood surrounding you: they represent all the mistakes that we made. And you start with the basics. The house, the shed, the fencing, the water-tank. Take whatever help we can, whether from friends or strangers, or God or even ourselves. You need skills and knowledge, you learn it. You need a place to visit, you go there. You need bricks, mortar, timber, joints and tools, you find and obtain it. You need work, you go find it. That last one's pretty hard, so first build yourself up before you offer yourself to the community. And friends? You go out and find some, knowing that you'll never find one who agrees with you 100% but at least they might agree on 50%. Oh, and don't forget to put something away in another place for insurance.
And as each day of rebuilding passes, the eucalypts surrounding you will grow new growth and the ashen soil blanketed by mosses, then grasses and finally ferns and bushes. Birds and wildlife will return, and maybe a few new neighbours will move into the empty plot next door looking for a new start. The half-perished town will have new buildings as others move in and others build their bit.
And that money I lost in the bet, I'm not going to complain to God about it. That was my fault for underestimating the inferno's intensity, and my fault for not consulting with the local population about how sick the country was. But now that I know it's my fault, and how it is my fault, and how I can fix it, I can make my place great again. I'll start again, I'll save up, I'll wean myself off of whatever that I'm losing myself in (in my case games), I'll see if I can reconcile with my folks so that we can talk normally again, and maybe I'll have enough to buy that car (which I need but can't buy right now). And I'll keep watching how these events are unfolding, and learning about where the system is going right and where it is going wrong.
And maybe we'll speak up about the things we've learned so that we can help others learn around us.
I believe he means Rudy Giuliani, 9/11 Mayor who gave a press conference at Four Seasons Landscaping. He specifies that conference because it also makes reference to Pence via the sixth sign on the top row.
https://thedonald.win/p/11RhTd9FsT/remember-four-seasons-they-knew/c/
Yeah, they simply don't have enough server or network infrastructure to handle the traffic right now.