I consider myself highly proficient at tabletop exercises. For example, I’ve become adept at defeating a six-year-old at both Candy Land and Chutes & Ladders. The keys to victory are a ruthless mentality and not letting her do the counting. So, you can learn things from playing these sorts of games. Still, this has its limits.
A former comrade of mine ascending the ranks recently posted a photo of himself participating in a tabletop war game at a think tank. This same individual contends that if America hadn’t saved the world from Hitler in WW2, we’d all be speaking German right now. How someone with an extensive military education could surmise that a nation the size of Texas, and without much of a navy, could conquer the USA is baffling.
However, it makes perfect sense when you realize we’re now attempting to rack up decade #3 of spectacular debacles. Perhaps we won’t reach that milestone. Sometime soon, you might be working out in the yard when you see a sudden flash or perhaps feel a warm glow on the back of your neck and that’ll be it.
If every military adventure upon which we embark ends in disaster, one might reasonably conclude that we should simply desist from the practice. Good luck getting anything more than a single gold bar on your shoulder with that mentality. You see, American military excellence stems from the fact that we play games in conference rooms until we get our strategies right. That’s what geniuses at these think tanks do in order to formulate their brilliant suggestions.
That’s basically what’s going on with the whole Ukraine thing right now. The geniuses came up with a brilliant plan to start a proxy war on Russia’s doorstep. This would drag it into a quagmire that would justify sanctions to collapse its economy in order to foment domestic chaos and conflict which would presumably kill millions of its citizens. This would culminate in the breakup of the nation into digestible entities. Then, China would be next. Without Russian energy exports in particular, it would be a very precarious position. Voila! Global domination is finally achieved.
I’m sure this all played out rather smoothly in various conference rooms. The problem is that war isn’t a game, and these expert strategists are actually imbeciles. So, it’s all ending in unmitigated disaster and the only place for it to go in an escalatory sense is nuclear apocalypse. They’ve now gamed out that they need to mitigate the disaster by making some disingenuous concessions to the credulous Russians in order to put the conflict on hold to be revived later. This frees up Uncle Sam to go straight for China’s throat.
If this strikes you as rather disconcerting, well that’s why you’re a stupid redneck while they’re the experts. They can smell you at Walmart, trust me. I guess that in these games, they leave out the part where China also has a massive nuclear arsenal. It’s all really quite bizarre because it’s America doing the squawking about war, not the Chinese.
I follow the Chinese language media. They’re reacting to provocations in a very restrained manner and genuinely don’t want a conflict. They’ve put up with being repeatedly humiliated to avoid one just like Putin did before he couldn’t take it anymore. It’s like Uncle Sam is slapping them in the face while wailing that they’re trying to start a fight with him. Only one tiny group of humans does this infuriating and absolutely perplexing maneuver and they’re not Asian.
The Taiwanese are become increasingly alarmed that they’re going to be turned into the next Ukraine, a concern which manifested itself in their midterm elections last fall. Much of the island’s net worth is tied up on the mainland and millions of them are working there right now. A conflict would turn them into a failed state before they even got flattened. They really don’t want this either.
It’s all quite insane, but there’s a logic to everything. The people (they attend religious services on Saturday) who formulate these objectives are above criticism and accountability or even honest acknowledgment of who they are and what they’re seeking. They can only go forward and faster. Their lackeys in the military and defense establishment hold their esteemed positions because they’ll go along with anything no matter how stupid and reckless. It’s all going to get much worse and it doesn’t matter what anyone else has to say about it.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
Seventh-Day Adventists?
Ha, ha. … Good one! You’re imbibing some of Mr. Shackleford’s sparkling wit!
Mr. Morris, once again you’ve nailed it. Might I also add that they’ve rigged our financial system.
LOL @ the article intro
It reminded me of this proto-manosphere classic: https://maddox.xmission.com/irule_.html