Next time, nukes.
[T]he Chinese State Oil Company, CNPC, has won the tender for the Kashkari, Bazarkhami and Zamarudsay blocks in Northern Afghanistan…
h/t Adrian, who writes;
You know I got to musing, another one of those navel moments (instead of getting the house roof finished/started) as to where it all went wrong and it occurred to me, and maybe not for the first time, that the world and humans used to operate a winner takes all, or a spoils of victory approach. Isn’t it the victory or accomplishment that makes the effort worthwhile in all our endeavours?
I think we know? We the west stopped doing that after WW2 Not only did we pay to win, but we paid to rebuild Europe in doing so we bankrupted ourselves our industries and our economy’s, and set up the losers to be winners both economically and culturally for the last 5 decades. I know its old history and been run through time and again but we in the free or British dominions had rationing and drained our capital not to invest in our industries and infrastructure but to re-build Europe. Did Europe pay for anything? (And I’m not talking here about Germanys blood money paid to the state of Israel) And this was based on what?
I believe the League of Nations was fond of and full of communists and losers and created the thesis that the results of the WW1 would create havoc unless they could dictate the future, That worked so well in that WW2 happened, that its successor just had to be right, if the natural order created the revulsion of death that was expressed in “war to end all wars” and had failed then the league of nations position had to be the right alternative and its successor UN has continued over the last 60 years to propagate every conceivable intrusion in the natural order of life and society. It has pushed its socialist agenda and its rabid hatred into every function of the world. A conglomerate of failed, destitute countries, ideologies and demagogues that should have been the natural vanquished humiliated losers banished from any type of influence in the order of the natural world being elevated to the status of victors and legislatures.
The natural god given order will not and cannot survive like this and a natural correction must follow. Is the world in the end game of having letting the losers win? The western civilisation that has been the enabler for the world during the last 200 years started committing suicide after the second world war. Instead of crushing the defeated we elevated them, enabled them and served penance on ourselves eventually allowing every failed cause to push back against the natural order.
Or have I missed something?
@cgh … 1982 was an eye-opening year for the elderly gentlemen in Moscow … that was the year when Israel’s ground forces advanced in Lebanon … the wiser Syrian units stood back … the dumber ones were slaughtered … IAF dogfights with the Syrians were a mismatch in the heavens … Moscow extrapolated from that war that NATO would do to the Warsaw Pact what Israel did to the Syrians.
Back to my original question. If it takes one million NVA troops to overrun South Vietnam how many Warsaw Pact troops would it have taken to overrun Western Europe? Have you ever tried to visualize things from Moscow’s viewpoint? Will you go to war with someone who gives you your daily bread?
Rizwan, what part of “NATO’s forward deployment strategy” did you not understand? That fact alone virtually guaranteed a NATO catastrophe. Particularly given the absence of significant strategic reserves.
As to what Moscow extrapolated from 1982, all it proved was that once again Syrians couldn’t fly worth a damn, again, always, regardless of what they were flying.
Your question about a million NVA troops is meaningless. The NVA achieved this despite overwhelming air superiority used against them.