A good many observers tell us that the People’s Republic of China is on its last legs. That a combination of demographics and the centralization and massive cult of personality of Xi are leading inevitably to a complete collapse. Some have gone so far as to predict mass starvation and depopulation. Of chaos beyond that of a hundred warlords fighting over the scraps.
China will collapse within years, maybe mere months. China’s demographics, its economy, the arrogance and egotism of its leadership, and world economic conditions all contribute to this. The various advocates of this view may disagree on how quickly and how total the collapse may be, but agree that China is in the toaster, just waiting to pop out.
Others, of course, see China as the current ultimate doomslaying threat to the States and Western Civilization. These include the military-industrial complex, screaming about the boogeyman which will gobble up the Pacific, an ocean covered with the debris and bodies of American and allied navies. Dropping bombs (or just rocks) from orbit. Joining with Russia to revive the worst fears of the half-century of the Cold War.
As recently stated by SecDef Hegseth, China is just months away from exploding. Not into chaos (Vision 1) but across the Western Pacific, gobbling up everything in sight. Starting with the American fleet and bases, then Taiwan, the Philippines, Indochina, and possibly even Korea and Japan. Attempting (and according to them, without trillions in spending by American taxpayers) to make the 21st Century the “Asian Century.” And worst case: hyperspeed and orbital bombardment of North America and at least Britain with nukes.
Still others, though, cite evidence to show that China has already undergone a massive depopulation, and is flat-out lying about having 1.4 billion people. (The claims are as few as 300 to 400 million.) And evidence that China is already breaking up internally.
And finally, there are those who claim that China is an essential part of the world (and American) economic system and we must be sure that they survive (and are placated) to ensure that we here in the States survive.
Whom do we believe?
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NASA continues to demonstrate government incompetence
Apparently the entire Artemis lunar exploration and colonization program run by and done by NASA (with billions of your taxpayer dollars and hundreds of contractors, subcontractors, and other parasites) is again failing.
Some green-propaganda-provider tells us that an “engine failure” doomed their most recent moon mission. The bloated and largely wasteful Artemis program has been limping along since 2019. They now claim the goal of getting humans to Luna again next year (2026) is likely not going to happen. (It has already been delayed a year just in the last 18 months.) Notice this failure came after NASA and millions of Russia-haters made great fun of the failure of the last Russian lunar excursion, including glee over a NASA spacecraft (robotic, of course) finding the little crater that marked the machine’s crash point.
NASA says that it will take years to rebuild some of the hardware destroyed in the crash.
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