Putting Up Dukes

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In his post at http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/, the cowboy laid out the case of US miscalculations in its proposed war with Iran. Apparently, Russia and China are not going to just sit on the sidelines and allow the US to drop bombs on the Persians. Russia and China's own energy interest are at stake in the matter. The Cowboy points out that America may not be quite prepared to take on these twin behemoth's along with Iran. I'd say that is quite the understatement to, say the very least. I think however that what we are up against, if our leaders are stupid enough to attack Iran, is far worse than we can imagine.

America is the most evil country in the world as evidenced by the fact that we remain the only country to drop nuclear bombs and fire bombs on civilian people. The world has never forgotten that. The people of the world have been preparing since that day to get even with America. People hold grudges for centuries. (Witness the controversy over the Congress designating the Turks responsible for the Armenian Genocide from almost a hundred years ago). They may not articulate their animosity towards the United States openly, but believe me, its there. Put yourself in their shoes.

You can be sure that both the Germans and the Japanse deeply resent America. They have organized their economies to support their complete redemption from their ignominious humiliations of WW2. Both countries have developed warfare technologies that exceed our own. If you haven't been paying attention, you should observe that Japan is the leader in autonomous robotics to the point they could easily convert their expensive "toy" robots to mechanical soldiers. It is no telling what type of technologies the ingenious Germans have developed secretly that they have not shared with America. Remember how quickly they ramped up during the war.

The Chinese are a different story. They have fought us to a draw in two wars in Vietnam and Korea. Now we have given them all our basic technology which they have the option to improve on. We are practically totally reliant on their "cheap" labor for almost everything we use and consume. They can easily peer into almost every aspect of our industry via the American based internet, while at the same time we have practically no access to their industry because the internet has not infiltrated into the inner recesses of China as it has in America. China has over 1.5 billion people that we know about. We don't even know if their census is reliable. That is five times more people than we have to fight a war. At the minimum they have five times more engineers than we do, five times more workers, five times more physicists, five times more soldiers, etc. etc. etc. There is no way our intelligence services can monitor and analyze everything that's going on in this world against us especially while we are busy with middle east wars.

For years China has had to listen hypocritical haranges from US diplomacy vilifying them, before they developed the vast economy that they now have. And similarly for the Russians.
Putin is not playing at all. We really need to wake up and smell the coffee and chart a new course.

The problem with our leaders is they are more afraid of the American people than they are of our foreign enemies. The 'powers that be in America' are afraid to share technology readily available, for fear it will empower the individual American too much and they won't be as easily manipulated. 'The powers that be' found out with the internet empowering Americans takes away some of their own power. Since the internet its pretty damn near impossible to keep any secrets again. Even foreign intelligence agencies are leaking American secrets on the internet when before they were able to totally control the dissemination of information. If for instance, American people realized that there is truely such a thing as "free energy" easily available and that we don't need oil from the middle east, it would take from the so called authorities a significant portion of their power over the masses. 'The powers that be' in America maintain a reliance on oil to keep the American people dependent on them providing it and paying them to provide it. The only value American money has is a function of how much oil it can buy. A probem has now developed because the foreign owners of the oil are wising up to realize there is nothing they want to buy from America. We don't produce anything of value anymore- just abstract values like democracy and freedom and equities, etc. The best cars are produced in Asia and Europe; and that's why everyone in the world want yen and euros. The only really productive company in the US is Apple computer and they should be designated a national treasure.