By David Glenn Cox
If you would please, open your future history textbooks to chapter five. Page 147 – “Axis Partners Unite!” The leaders of China, North Korea, Russia, India and Iran held a love fest for the benefit of western eyes. The formal announcement to say they aren’t dating us anymore. We’ve been dumped! An alliance of the bad guys, all made possible by you know who.
These authoritarian leaders thought to themselves. “How much do we really hate Donald Trump and how much do we mistrust him?” Enough to bury the hatchet and forget old antagonisms. It says China has publicly picked a side now after playing the sly, apparently neutral partner selling to both sides. In the wake of the summit, that wasn’t. A Chinese summit and good time was had by all! Everyone was all smiles and holding hands for the camera at the Axis summit. With Vladimir Putin smiling for the camera as if to say. “I’ve got other friends, Donald! You don’t scare me, Donald!”
Russia, Iran and North Korea are obvious, but India and China? Does India really want to lock arms with this council of crazy? India isn’t fighting in Ukraine. India isn’t fighting south India. India doesn’t need to capture Taiwan. She doesn’t have a dog in the fight and yet she commits herself to the council. A high-priced investment to gain very little while risking everything. The world is choosing up sides for war. [Chap 9 page 298-“Monkeys Juggling Hand Grenades.”]
Could the trade war become a hot war? Trump’s tariffs are bad for China’s business. The Chinese need their money to pay their bills too and Donald Trump is kinking the money hose. Saddam accused Kuwait of flooding the market to keep oil prices low. Making it difficult for Iraq to pay off her war debt. The US and allies embargoed oil to Japan. And Japan felt they had no other choice but to go to war. Sun Tzu says to always leave a surrounded army a golden bridge to escape on. Lest they feel they have no other choice and fight like tigers.
It’s only fair we give the devil his due. The little North Korean rocket boy gets up on stage, gets his picture taken and shakes hands with world leaders. Just like he’s one of them and offering, I’m sure, some amazing insights into the conversations. North Korea is best known for out of round artillery shells and low -tech human robot dummies addicted to Internet porn and chocolate. For Kim, these are good times and he’s living large, and the cash register is ringing!
For China, it is another step publicly distancing themselves from the United States. Publicly stating, “I’m with these guys now, Ponyboy! You go on home.” Now, officially in an adversarial relationship with the United States. The king gasps through his respirator. “Tell 86 proof Pete Hegseth to warm up the war machine!” It’s inevitable! Eventually the bull begins breaking stuff if left alone in the China shop. But if the summit in Alaska was a shakedown. Maybe all of Trump’s trade negotiations have been shakedowns. Maybe your tariff depends on his payoff! That would help to explain this sudden love fest in the council of calamitous intent.
Trump’s display of American military prowess is met with a show of Chinese military prowess. Just for you, Donald. The parade and the celebration are all for you, Donald. Sure, they said it was to celebrate the end of WW II but who really believes that? Why would China celebrate the end of WWII when they were in the middle of their own Chinese civil war?
Authoritarian governments just like military parades. To show and overawe the people with how tough they are. With lots of flags and patriotic music. With Jackbooted goose stepping and the whole nine yards. “Look how great we are! Eight hundred and eleven armored personnel carriers!” All to defend us from Western aggression.
The Chinese government can blame their economic hard times on you know who. Why would China want to side with Russia and North Korea rather than the lucrative Western Economies? Unless they felt they didn’t really have a choice. Orange man speak with forked tongue! Unless someone had already tried to shake them down. I’m not saying it’s so. I’m saying events make it look possible. For some reason. Nations around the globe are uniting against the United States. I wonder why?
Who remembers in the book “Fahrenheit 451”? Where Montag runs away and watches the police murder him or someone supposed to be him on live TV. When I saw the government blow up an alleged “drug boat” off the coast of Venezuela. I thought about Montag. It might have been a “drug boat.” It might have been the worst drug boat in the whole drug boat navy. It might have been everything they said it was with a pirate captain and a desperate crew. But just blowing people up like that because we believe it’s possible, they might be committing a crime is futuristically barbaric. Bam! Boom! Rat-a-tat -tat! Shoot first and ask questions later!
The waters are crawling with US Navy ships and planes. So, do be careful hauling these drugs. They are out in full force looking for small boats just like this one. So please be careful running the naval blockade. It might have been just a fishing boat. We’ll just have to take their word for it. Now, won’t we? They wouldn’t lie to us, would they? They’ve been looking for an excuse to strike Venezuela for years. All we need is a pretext! “Hey look! Here comes a drug boat! Blow it up!” How do you know it’s a drug boat? “Because it looks like one! And the American audience wouldn’t ever know the difference anyhow!”
Venezuela to Florida is 1,700 miles of open ocean, in an open skiff? Is that how international drug smugglers get away with it these days? In dangerous small boats unfit for ocean travel? The outboard motor takes at least 48 hours of travel time. Stopping for gas five or six times. It was a drug boat! It was! No, really, it really was! We’re almost sure of it! Stop asking so many damn questions! It was a drug boat!
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.” ― Ray Bradbury
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