Watching Jack Cafferty on CNN taking emails on China and Russia having joint mil exercises. Most are highly alarmist, such as "worst case possible!"
A strange calculus: Russia's military collapses and is barely left standing after the Soviet Union falls (remembering that's the country that lost the Cold War). When it exercises with the PLA, the Russians come away deeply unimpressed.
This 2 + 2 = maybe 2.7 on a good day, and this is the worst case possible?
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This is great. I have to admit, part of me did have the same reaction as many others. The, "Oh, this could be bad", gut feeling.
I too was relatively unimpressed with many of militaries that I worked with during my time on active duty. For the most part, the individuals were wonderful, smart, and enthusiastic, while the militaries as a whole were lethargic and ill prepared for a major battle (as compared to the US).
I dont have access to good data, but how would a Russia+China military stack up in a raw numbers-numbers comparison, and then in a normalized measure of kill power (something based on past kill ratios, high for an F-22, low for the nKorean Yaks).
Just a thought.
Posted by Matt R. | August 17, 2007 8:22 PM
This combo is much more effective as an apocalyptic harbinger. I grew up in a quasi-fundamentalist home in Alabama. The major difference was a complete eschewing of any end-time prophesying. However, various family members had the tracts, and I knew early on about the relationship with Russia and China being forecast in the book of Revelation, according to some doctrines. The better these two countries get along, the more dire premillenialists will be in hyping the doom of all mankind.
Posted by Joseph | August 17, 2007 11:59 PM
My experience with the end timers: They ALWAYS find evidence!
Posted by Tom Barnett | August 20, 2007 3:47 PM