Is The Time Right For A Chinese Move On Taiwan Or American Forces?

[Rightguide]

Our All-Volunteer Military Force Implodes​

By Stuart Scheller
February 03, 2023

America’s all-volunteer military is slowly shrinking in size and talent despite leadership’s prevention efforts. Without new leadership and ideas, war inevitably becomes the only safeguard against America’s pending military implosion.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps addressed current military recruitment failures in November’s U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings magazine entitled, “Recruiting Requires Bold Changes.” The Commandant identified the American people’s degrading trust in the military as the biggest obstacle to recruitment. Current data supports his statement. According to Gallup, Americans’ faith in military officers has degraded to the lowest levels ever recorded. Yet the Commandant, like most senior military leaders, understands the problems, but lacks the insight and courage to recommend leadership changes. Last month the Assistant Commandant, during a panel on the all-volunteer force, reinforced this observation. Unsurprisingly, the panel never discussed recommendations for changes in leadership, despite the general officer stating, “all options are on the table.”

More here: https://www.realcleardefense.com/ar...volunteer_military_force_implodes_879776.html

We have some big problems with our ability to recruit qualified people. Right now between the Army and the Marine Corps combined we have less than 150,000 troops who can make lethal contact with the enemy. So why, in view of this set of facts along with our demonstrably weak leadership, wouldn't this be a prime time for the Chinese to start something?

 

[Rotadom]

How hard was your dick when you copy and pasted that wet dream?

 

[ll74]

Is your post about China or about the US armed forces?

 

[Chobham]

I'm surprised the author didn't mention the 'sensitivity' training bull shit or perhaps that was contained albeit unspoken in his reference to leadership failures.

 

[lazy_literotic]

trump would concede to xi
he would concede to the Kim Jung nut
and he would concede to his white friend putin.

all that because of you guys.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

They should move while movin' slow Uncle Joe is still in office.
If they don't then it is because they are too weak militarily.
The PLA suffers from a parallel form of woke
that is Commie red to our Gaia green.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Those guys control Xi and Biden? Are you so clouded by hate as to be simply delusional?

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Ukraine has become an Uncle Remus tar baby that has yet to go nuclear, the West and Russia have a lot in common and there are implicit understandings on how we navigate conflicts. We do not share that with China and were we perceived to be prevailing in any conflict with Taiwan, I'm not so sure that the ChiComms would not go nuclear. They do not think and calculate like we do.

 

[lazy_literotic]

Seeing we're bankrupting ourselves and depleting our weapons stores to back Ukraine in a war we have no business being involved in, damn straight I'd attack us.
Add in the fact that even if we were directly attacked our 'leaderships" response would be to squabble and argue over it and leftwing media would say retaliating against someone who blatantly attacked you would be racist, and want to apologize that our people got in the way of their artillery

If you think that last part is sarcasm, let me remind you of Benghazi.

don't worry - trump will sell you out.

don't forget Helsinki

 

[VinnyVeritas]

I see that Trump has some more rental space that he didn't declare...

 

[Chobham]

It's free, nothing to declare there.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

It's free, nothing to declare there.

Excellent point.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Here's something for the free-rent crowd:

Four in 10 Americans say they’ve gotten worse off financially since Joe Biden became president, the most in ABC News/Washington Post polls dating back 37 years. Political fallout includes poor performance ratings for Biden and a tight hypothetical Biden/Trump rematch next year.

Given disaffection with both leaders, a rerun of the 2020 presidential election is hardly enticing: Nearly six in 10 Democratic-aligned adults don’t want to see Biden nominated again for the job, and half on the Republican side would rather not see Donald Trump as their party’s nominee.

If those were the choices and the election were today, the poll suggests it could be close: Among all adults, 48 percent support Donald Trump and 44 percent are for Biden; it’s a similar 48-45 percent among registered voters. The differences are within the poll’s margin of sampling error.



Dead Heat – Lord only know what would happen if it were polling about Harris-Trump...


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rec...e-political-discontent-poll/story?id=96884607
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023...beats-biden-in-a-hypothetical-matchup-n528592

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Let's give them something to think about:

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/02/05/challenging-the-u-s-is-a-historic-mistake-n528605

 

[DeluxAuto]

Seeing we're bankrupting ourselves and depleting our weapons stores to back Ukraine in a war we have no business being involved in, damn straight I'd attack us.
Add in the fact that even if we were directly attacked our 'leaderships" response would be to squabble and argue over it and leftwing media would say retaliating against someone who blatantly attacked you would be racist, and want to apologize that our people got in the way of their artillery

If you think that last part is sarcasm, let me remind you of Benghazi.

Histrionics.

 

[Rightguide]

trump would concede to xi
he would concede to the Kim Jung nut
and he would concede to his white friend putin.

all that because of you guys.

^^^
Hate-driven Mythology.

 

[Rightguide]

Let's give them something to think about:

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/02/05/challenging-the-u-s-is-a-historic-mistake-n528605

Especially since they're going to lose half of their population by 2050.

 

[Chobham]

Especially since they're going to lose half of their population by 2050.

If not sooner.

 

[Rightguide]

If not sooner.

To say nothing of the shambles their economy is in right now as well.

 

[icanhelp1]

^^^
Hate-driven Mythology.

Is it 2024 already? Did Trump win?

 

[Rightguide]

They should move while movin' slow Uncle Joe is still in office.
If they don't then it is because they are too weak militarily.
The PLA suffers from a parallel form of woke
that is Commie red to our Gaia green.

Chinese generals and the Chinese army itself haven't seen combat since 1978 when they got their asses kicked by the North Vietnamese and before that in Korean War. They have a lot of men and equipment both of questionable and unproven quality.

 

[Rightguide]

Is it 2024 already? Did Trump win?

She's a true victim of woke propaganda.

 

[lazy_literotic]

^^^
Hate-driven Mythology.

real hate is smearing human excrement on the walls of the us capitol.

xi and putin and the Kim shit - they see that and it convinces them that the us is with them.
it's really just you reeps that are with them.
u r traitors.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

^^^
Hate-driven Mythology.

Sure, about 2/10th worth eh?

 

[Rightguide]

real hate is smearing human excrement on the walls of the us capitol.

xi and putin and the Kim shit - they see that and it convinces them that the us is with them.
it's really just you reeps that are with them.
u r traitors.

You have a twisted sense of reality. It's actually the other way around. It's the left who is enabling our enemies. You should probably go back and finish school.