China

Nice legs on the red army chicks. It’s interesting that even with the faux goal of “equality” that the Communists supposedly ascribe to that they allow their women to look like women and not Hillary in a gray Mao-ish pantsuit. Those ladies look like they could break into a chorus of…

The Third Reich certainly had cooler uniforms.

The showdown scene is absolutely ridiculous…and exactly why I like this movie. Carol O’Conner is also over the top…and hilariously so. And that squinty-eyed kraut in the tank is such a memorable character. I own that on Blu-ray. It may be time to view it again.

One of my favorite cinematic Nazis is from Where Eagles Dare: Derren Nesbitt as Von Hapen

The link is to a good article which lays out, in a few lines, the decades-long screw-up which has been America's and the West's China Policy.

The Truth About China

This is a straightforward, not too detailed, report on what our elites have done wrong and why. It is good to see such articles being published. I only wish they had been published at least 25-30 years ago when it was more than clear what was happening.

There is no doubt that China has made immense progress over the last 70 years. Just like there was no doubt the Soviets made progress over the first 70 years of communism. The cost, without WWII, is in the millions of lives that communism always demands for it followers. It always takes everything and demands more. 

The outcome in HK can only come out two ways, either China wins and the protesters are crushed, or the protesters win and China loses a lot of face. I don't see anything short of violence on a large scale coming out of this. Maybe there is a compromise everyone can live with but it seems if there were it would have been tried by now. The economy of China is in a very tender place right now and any more sanctions because of violence in HK is only going to make it worse. I am reminded of the summer of 1941 when Japan was sanctioned and they believed there was only one way out. That did not work out well either. 

Mr. Kung, I was pleased to read that article by VDH this morning as well. I’m going to assume he’s captured the gist of it, particularly:



I remember twenty years ago telling people “Do not pretend the Red Chinese are anything but evil Communists.” The Rotten Children of the Sixties (included such types as Jane Fonda) had not only normalized Communism but made it commendable in the eyes of many.

The “Red Scare” was berated. McCarthy (who was essentially correct that there were Communists infiltrating the State Department) were cast off as witch-hunters.

Now we have a Marxist pope and red diaper doper babies are in the majority. Few “blue collar” or “minority” Democrat voters have the integrity to admit it, but their party is not only hostile to America but they are friends to our enemies. And Communism is our enemy.

All liberals are either evil or frauds. I love this astute bit from a commenter:



The Little Monster obsess over plastic straws. But that is a perverted gesture. The problem is not our plastic straws. The problem is these Little Monsters ignoring the truth of situation: Third-world Communists (and other shit-hole countries) are the problem in terms of pollution. And I’m not talking about the faux scare of “climate change.”

The Little Monsters want their cheap cell phones but don’t want to be reminded of the true costs so that these morons can Tweet idiotic nothings to each other.

This is definitely a religious war going on, Artler. Leftism is, for all intents and purposes, a religion.

This is why it’s sad to see so many Christians and Jews fall without a fight. They have in far too many cases not only not opposed the Left but have actively brought them in. This is akin to an article I read yesterday about a town in Sweden that is experiencing Swede flight because of so many dangerous Muslims being brought in as “refuges.” And with all kinds of laws in place to deny that Muslims are a problem, the idiots who supported these policies and politicians are now fleeing.

Having personally watched the “conservatives” around me being making too easy a peace with the Left, I think they will win. Adherence to “Jesus” has often been a refuge from actually doing anything. One might at least then have some respect for the many Jews who have cast off their heritage and religion entirely and are outward religious Leftists. To some extent, that is at least honest.

The problem is, aside from Dennis Prager and surely a local pastor or two, there are very few people of prominence who are the narrow gate, who are a role model for how to act and be. If we want people to reject Leftism, aside from Sean Hannity and Ben Shapiro screaming on TV, where can people learn how to be in a way contrary to Leftism?

Catholics are a lost tribe, and that’s quite some sizable tribe. Muslims will, without a doubt now, take over Europe within the next 75 years. Nothing can stop it. At some point America will have to take back its tactical nukes from Europe to keep them out of the hands of the Muslims. It’s always possible some semi-benevolent Hitler will arise and send them all packing, but I wouldn’t count on it. You were prescient when you wrote:



The scary thought is that China likely could withstand a nuclear exchange. They have so many people, what’s a few hundred million in losses if it means wiping out the West? The current leaders seem to be incrementalists. But what if the next Chinese leader (or cadre of leaders) is more militaristic? What if a great famine or plague were to hit China? What if the Muslims hit them with an Iranian-made nuclear bomb?

One thing I’m ambivalent about is when they (including VDH) write about the human rights abuses by the Chinese of their Muslim population. I don’t know the particulars, but they are not wrong to try to train these evil religionists into some more docile. We can virtue signal on this point all we want, but I think China’s actions are far more rational (and moral to its own citizens) than the policies of Sweden, for example.

Trump, like Reagan, is likely a last-ditch anomaly in terms of actually confronting this stuff. After Trump is out of office (whenever that is), the writing is on the wall. The entire Democrat Party is nothing but a bunch of Communists and the Republicans little more than emasculated Quislings.

In the movie Red Dawn, there's a scene in which an American flyer rescued by the Wolverines tells them what's going on overall in the war.  At that time (over 30 years ago), our only significant ally was "half a billion Chinese".  When one of the Wolverines notes that he thought there were a billion Chinese, the flyer said that there were -- and by implication half of them had been killed, presumably by nuclear attacks.