China

China. China is the looming threat. China is Godzilla rising from the sea. China is an enemy like which we have never faced in the history of our republic. And it is on the march.

Right now, at this moment in our history, we absolutely must awaken to see what China is. Everything else right now is a distraction.

The other day the Chinese air force infiltrated Taiwan airspace in a massive military exercise. The media said nothing. Our distracted and feckless leaders apparently cannot see what is very likely soon to transpire. But then again, this is the recurring theme in the story of self-government.

From the time of the Greeks and Themistocles to Neville Chamberlain and the Hitler menace to the present day, freedom in all its magnificent genius and productivity is intrinsically prone to the presumptions of prosperity and security. America is no different. And we are in love with demagogues. Demagogues who will tell you what we want to hear.

The talentless and conformist political class in the West and their accomplices in the media have been mindlessly weaving nonsensical domestic fictions in order to gain personal power. We have been distracted in anorexic and hysterical fear to COVID. But now China is on the marching.

All that stands between 1.3 billion Communist Chinese and Taiwan and the international waters of the South China Sea is little, dysfunctional Joe Biden. Our military has been and is being purged. The strong men and women necessary to fight wars, have been in many cases displaced by gender confused poltroons and suck up military toadies. The Pentagon is no longer an entity of strength. It is a distracted asylum of incompetents.

The bureaucrats in the Pentagon have squandered enormous and irreplaceable resources on LCS’s (Light, under armed, littoral ships) and Zumwalt Destroyers that cannot and will not perform in a major conflict. We do not have enough F22’s. We do not have enough ships. And those we have are getting old.

We are in trouble. And no one is talking about it.

China’s fleet now is newer and larger than the entire United States Navy. And theirs is all concentrated in one place—East Asia. Our navy is dispersed over the entire globe with multi-ocean commitments. China knows we are weak. There is no leadership in America. Our doctrinaire fixation with carriers is almost certainly wrong. Hyper-sonic missiles with vastly extended range, speed and accuracy will almost certainly prevent our carriers from defending Taiwan and the Formosa Straits if and when that mission is required of us. And there appears to be no important discussion of these gigantic problems amongst our political leaders or the intellectual class.

We are headed toward a gigantic calamity. A catastrophe that may result in the destruction of everything we know. It took four years for the United States to defeat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan with aggregate poluation of less than 250 million. China is a nation of 1.3 billion with an economy that is almost certainly larger in industrial productivity than the United States. Our country and the West has not faced an enemy with this overwhelming power since the Persians invaded Greece. And we are a civilization without Spartans. We are a nation of metrosexuals little boys who play computer games. We are in enormous trouble. And we are all playing it off. We are all talking about transgender rights, imaginary white racism and Juneteenth. And China knows this.

“Arm yourselves and be ye men of valor and stand in readiness for the conflict, for it is better that we perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altars…” Churchill May 1940