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China Plans to Win The Pandemic World War
2020-04-05
A very sobering essay by Matt Bracken, hat tip: American Partisan
By accident or on purpose, Pandemic World War One has already begun, even if we don’t fully realize it yet. A few examples to make the point: the American super-carrier Roosevelt is in Guam, with over 100 of its crew infected after a scheduled port visit in Vietnam, and half of its 5,000 member crew under quarantine. Parris Island, the USMC’s east coast boot camp, has many troops infected, with no new recruits inbound, and graduating Marines quarantined on base indefinitely. Our thousand-bed USNS hospital ships Mercy and Comfort are deployed to Los Angeles and New York. U.S. military medical personnel are being sent to American Coronavirus hot spots to augment their civilian medical staffs.

If Pandemic World War One was launched intentionally, then naval vessels and isolated ChiCom special forces bases will become significant force multipliers, because they can be kept scrupulously free of Coronavirus, held back for later use when Western military forces are infected, depleted, and not battle ready. Even if the Covid-19 pandemic was not released on purpose, getting a head start on quarantining key military assets for later use becomes a critical factor, and such total isolation is far more easily achieved within China’s totalitarian dictatorship.
Posted by:Alaska Paul

#15  ^ Well, you'll save money on electricity to run your dishwasher.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-04-05 18:28  

#14  BOYCOTT CHINA!!!

Yeah, it's paper plates on the dinner table from here on out.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-04-05 18:20  

#13  Boycott their products too.

BOYCOTT CHINA!!!
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-04-05 17:51  

#12  I've been saying this for a long time.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-04-05 17:49  

#11  Ref #8: Where does he get the proof of his conspiracy theories?

I believe the word you were looking for may have been evidence as opposed to "proof." Evidence of this theory abounds and appears to be growing day-by-day. Again, this is a theory. Whatever the outcome, Brachen's theory will likely be war gamed long after we are all gone.

By the way, theories generate thought, dialogue, white papers, etc. Actual facts have been stumbled upon in such processes.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-05 07:12  

#10  ^A former Seal, so what? If he thinks that China can train 10 million men as soldiers - and provide than with officers & noncoms, or transport them overseas, he's an asshole.

p.s. Why don't I ever see Israeli alumni of Sayeret Matkal or Marine Commando (or, for that matter, non Seal USA special forces) macho-ing on Internet?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-05 06:08  

#9  Grom, do you not know who Matt Bracken is?
Posted by: SR-71   2020-04-05 05:37  

#8  Where does he get the proof of his conspiracy theories? This is just a man ranting about his fears. "ChiCom"? Seriously? Who talks like that?
Posted by: Chitle Thromose5239   2020-04-05 04:43  

#7  Hooking these de facto colonies on Chinese capital - state-owed and private debt, along with major asset purchases by the Chinese at steep discounts - would be more effective than military invasion. This is more or less what happened to Italy.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-05 04:27  

#6  ^^Who the f*ck told the author that current day Chinese youths will go along?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-05 03:14  

#5  ^"noncomps" ---> "noncoms"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-05 03:13  

#4  Very scary. Except
(a) China doesn't have a fraction of carrying capacity to transport 10 million men.
(b) These 10 or 30 million men are not soldiers.
Training 10 million soldiers and providing officers & noncomps to lead them - let me guess, the author is not a veteran.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-05 03:12  

#3  Very disturbing language out of the Mao Stricken provinces. Learn Cantoneese.

Curse China.
Posted by: newc   2020-04-05 01:56  

#2  We dismiss Brachen's essay and analysis at our own peril.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-05 01:20  

#1  Thank you, Alaska Paul.

First order of business: stop crippling ourselves. This paragraph crystallizes the madness of our 30-year policy that must end, immediately:

... China is only strong today because the West allowed it grow economically many fold over the past forty years, due to our short-sighted stupidity and our lust for ever-cheaper consumer goods, and even for cheaper medical supplies.

Sens. Hawley (R-MO) and Cotton (R-AR) have the right idea. First things first: detach ourselves from China as completely and as rapidly as we possibly can. Do this first and new options will appear -- and all the follow-on steps will be immeasurably easier.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-05 00:59  

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