tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post5211112065674960635..comments2024-03-28T01:33:22.764-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: Climbing Out of the Obama Foreign Policy HoleDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-76305269240695140002017-05-09T11:41:10.858-04:002017-05-09T11:41:10.858-04:00I suggest that every student should have a look at...I suggest that every student should <a href="https://majesticpapers.com/blog/philosophy-degree" rel="nofollow">have a look at this link</a> and then you will read an article on philosophical degree.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00365440368469994795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-40865242082469225352014-03-07T10:31:12.849-05:002014-03-07T10:31:12.849-05:00BRAVO. Remove the domestic issues from the feds a...BRAVO. Remove the domestic issues from the feds and push them back to were they belong the states, counties, cities, and leave the Feds to foreign affairs. <br /><br />A very radical idea in todays times sadly, a return to the CONSTITUTION.C-Lowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03513349747672785097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-25658511046600050962014-03-04T18:30:13.633-05:002014-03-04T18:30:13.633-05:00Kepha,
"Also, as a Christian, I can't not...Kepha,<br />"Also, as a Christian, I can't note what happened to our founder three days before his resurrection!" Touche`, point taken. Perhaps I'm a little too tongue in cheek at times. Anyway the book is a basic survey of Chinese history, prehistory to the 19th century, thought it would be a good way to start. I do get tickled with how they title some of their writings.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-77909657718963149252014-03-04T18:11:14.900-05:002014-03-04T18:11:14.900-05:00Arkie,
I wouldn't even think of touching that ...Arkie,<br />I wouldn't even think of touching that Vette. I want to stay in the land of the living. I have paid attention to the Diplomad's tales of cars in other countries.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-18812033086215484572014-03-04T12:35:52.648-05:002014-03-04T12:35:52.648-05:00I'm an average background American. I don...I'm an average background American. I don't know what faith you (as an ally) can put in our administration but I do know that I can say that Australia is one of the few countries I grit my teeth but be willing to see my kids sent off to defend or support just because I believe it would be the right thing to do. At the least know that I will vote for those that honor that faith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-11013959366219072262014-03-04T12:15:23.200-05:002014-03-04T12:15:23.200-05:00@-Blake
I can see India and Pakistan going at it ...@-Blake<br /><br /><i>I can see India and Pakistan going at it and Russia siding with Pakistan. </i><br /><br />India's currently "in talks" with the Afghans to provide arms and permanent support techs should notOtto Von Bisbama do what he appears likely to do - pull out totally.<br /><br />India, should they pull it off, would flank Pakistan. <br /><br />China it should be recalled, negotiated the mineral rights to Aynak (with ISAF / read "us" providing protection) & China's got it's own problems with Islam. As does Russia.<br /><br />There's increasing talk in the circles I hang around in, Russia in maybe ten, fifteen years will need to re-invade Afghanistan (or at least be a presence in some big way) to protect it's Near Abroad. That scenario would make a Rus-Paki alliance unlikely. <br /><br />I've never had China on a "to do list" so anything I might say should only be viewed as uninformed opinion. However, it would appear China "prefers" abandoning the so - called 'Nine Dash Line' and rather extend to the older strategic 'Eleven Dash Line.'<br /><br />The Eleven Dash Line perhaps coincidentally, includes Taiwan.<br /><br />There's a newly realized energy source discovered abundantly on some interesting locations of seabeds. Might make a note of this, you'll be hearing a lot of talk pretty soon <strong>methane hydrates.</strong>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-50565945242025407382014-03-04T11:14:37.035-05:002014-03-04T11:14:37.035-05:00Russia has been assiduously courting China, not cr...Russia has been assiduously courting China, not criticizing, for example, its moves against Philippines and Japan, and, of course, saying nothing negative about China's human rights record. China finds having relations with Russia to be much simpler than with the US, and China sees Putin as "the strong horse" and Obama as a weird Prancing Pony of no consequence. Go with the strong horse.DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-26855633918510787672014-03-04T10:11:33.408-05:002014-03-04T10:11:33.408-05:00Just read an interesting observation by Ricochet&#...Just read an interesting observation by Ricochet's Paul Rahe regarding the deafening silence of China regarding Ukraine. Would love to know your thoughts on this, Diplomad.SJHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-4521900434347938122014-03-04T09:46:36.190-05:002014-03-04T09:46:36.190-05:00Either way, the next President will have to clean ...Either way, the next President will have to clean up behind this "O".whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-62455793147636349872014-03-04T09:43:27.871-05:002014-03-04T09:43:27.871-05:00Kepha....FINALLY. I've been waiting for you to...Kepha....FINALLY. I've been waiting for you to turn on this particular light regarding China. Things are getting a little too far around the bend all at once. I don't have your first hand experience their, but I do have some know how with currencies, geography, demographics and plain old Potemkin Village economies. Among China's many problems is the fact that they have managed to get collectively old long before getting collectively wealthy as a nation. whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-66954104460860974552014-03-04T08:48:52.173-05:002014-03-04T08:48:52.173-05:00While I agree that Communist China is not to be tr...While I agree that Communist China is not to be trusted (talk about a culture of bullying!), I'd be cautious. There's a lot going on in China that points to totalitarian decay, not only in places like Sharki Turkistan (Xinjiang, as the colonialists call it) and Tibet, but even in the Han heartland.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-48186369675840936762014-03-04T08:45:55.816-05:002014-03-04T08:45:55.816-05:00Oh, my dear hyphenated, I personally am ready to l...Oh, my dear hyphenated, I personally am ready to lose my last meal from the wrong end whenever I hear of the O's "intelligence"! The academic records of "the most intelligent POTUS ever" seem to be the only secrets that America can keep anymore!<br /><br />BTW, in Hakka Chinese, "O" means, in one tone, a child, and in another "to defecate". There. I've given a hint at one of my family's own hyphenations. Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-40447710994077845342014-03-04T08:42:50.560-05:002014-03-04T08:42:50.560-05:00Dip: As for your reply to the "Dauwun Undah&...Dip: As for your reply to the "Dauwun Undah" Poster about how not even the US can trust its own government anymore, I concur while standing up to my thighs in dust and ashes and reciting the whole book of Lamentations.<br /><br />However, as for ASEAN states that fear Chinese expansion (per anonymous post above), I have reservations about a possibly unstable Indonesia, a Malaysia committed to squeezing its non-Muslim minorities (which are sizeable in Sarawak and Sabah), and a Burma that is assiduously sultivating Chinese ties. Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-9177254811038645572014-03-04T08:37:51.081-05:002014-03-04T08:37:51.081-05:00James: Well, Li Si was a faithful servant of the ...James: Well, Li Si was a faithful servant of the First Qin Emperor, who was perhaps a model totalitarian even though he lived in the 3d century B.C.<br /><br />However, I seem to recall that Kong Zi died in bed and Lao Zi disappeared into the Western Regions riding an ox.<br /><br />Also, as a Christian, I can't note what happened to our founder three days before his resurrection!<br /><br />Shalom.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-73176900817128594642014-03-04T01:28:51.232-05:002014-03-04T01:28:51.232-05:00Popular Front, I have read the Woodruff book writt...Popular Front, I have read the Woodruff book written by a former US marine who got so fed up with life in the US after Vietnam he became an Australian and served in the Australian navy.DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-40835940482985754382014-03-04T01:17:29.848-05:002014-03-04T01:17:29.848-05:00Australia is not making sure it is well defended. ...Australia is not making sure it is well defended. The last left leaning government made sure there was no money left now or in the foreseeable future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-81154318179882940902014-03-03T23:38:36.996-05:002014-03-03T23:38:36.996-05:00Everyone thought Hitler would stop, until he didn&...Everyone thought Hitler would stop, until he didn't.<br /><br />As for nothing to be won, Russia has been invaded by the West a couple of times in the last century. Both invasions cost Russia dearly. Putin could claim to be "protecting" Russia from future attacks by the West. As a bonus, Putin consolidates even more power. And there you have what's to be won: Power. <br /><br />I see Putin moving aggressively in Europe, because of the weakness of the US. Europe, last I heard, doesn't have much of any army, because they've lived comfortably under the military shield of the US. A military shield that has been shredded by continual war. <br /><br />I think the US sort of tries to back Europe against Russian aggression and then things really come apart. <br /><br />The PRC sits back and waits to pick up the pieces. In fact, if the US is distracted by Putin, what's to stop the PRC from grabbing Taiwan?<br /><br />I can see India and Pakistan going at it and Russia siding with Pakistan. Again, we end up with a world war. If the ball of war starts rolling in a region, it will turn into a world wide avalanche of mayhem.<br /><br />I don't see any scenario that doesn't end up with our worst nightmare.<br /><br />-BlakeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-89120470378374182672014-03-03T22:08:33.114-05:002014-03-03T22:08:33.114-05:00"The" real problem?
I wasn't listen..."The" real problem?<br /><br />I wasn't listening when they passed a law that there can only be one.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-57375791256795086032014-03-03T22:06:45.365-05:002014-03-03T22:06:45.365-05:00Nothing personal, though. Not even the U.S. can tr...Nothing personal, though. Not even the U.S. can trust any commitment by the USG.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-18004180627597501632014-03-03T22:03:26.431-05:002014-03-03T22:03:26.431-05:00You don't count Russia as an enemy? Or you don...You don't count Russia as an enemy? Or you don't think that they are real?<br /><br />They dispose of an awful lot of nuclear warheads for an "unreal" threat.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-34016261820086330562014-03-03T21:47:42.359-05:002014-03-03T21:47:42.359-05:00You James had any luck getting Diplomad to paint h...You James had any luck getting Diplomad to paint his Corvette pink?<br /><br />If not, we'all Diplomad Commentators'd proallary qualerfy (more or less) as hillbillys with bona fides.<br /><br />I prefer to reckon we here are more like than "not like,"<br /><br />F'instance there's HuffPo - & I can only allow whoever to shoot up amongst to figure whereupon for themselves.<br /><br />I are a Arkie reckoning with all you otherwise Smart Folks. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-3620782501838351072014-03-03T21:20:03.077-05:002014-03-03T21:20:03.077-05:00It's actually worse than our host lets on Popu...It's actually worse than our host lets on Popular Front, I suppose it's due to being "diplomatic."<br /><br />I've a friend [UDF SEAL] predates the modern 6 - get round Fort Pierce and you'll reckon the "story." Or ... go to Flea's bar (Coronado - yeah, same place Jesse Ventura got his lights knocked out) and ask around there.<br /><br />These days everything's weird. --- Except maybe as that hillbilly might be on about. <br /><br />Unless ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-26437780429452872592014-03-03T20:52:36.102-05:002014-03-03T20:52:36.102-05:00Ah so that's it. It is as we say Down Under &#...Ah so that's it. It is as we say Down Under 'bullsh1t' as you do in the USA. I don't know if you've ever read it but there is a very good book about the Vietnam War called 'Unheralded Victory' by a bloke called Mark W. Woodruff. In it he debunks much of the media negativity about US involvement and also payse generous tribute to the Australian effort of which I was certainly appreciative having completed three tours between 1965 & 1970. Towards the end of the book is a chapter called 'False Witnesses' where he exposes a number of high-profile US citizens who have lied blatantly and publically about their supposed SVN 'service'. Publish date is 1999 so I expect that it predates John Kerry's fantasies, Well worth a read however.Popular Frontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-35663773171068105572014-03-03T20:40:43.293-05:002014-03-03T20:40:43.293-05:00I can't see WW3 myself Blake, there has to be ...I can't see WW3 myself Blake, there has to be something tangible to be won, like for instance the extermination of the agressive Nazis, which was achieved. No, the next punchup is going to be very localised for instance the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea with up to six claimants rattling sabres at each other or the uninhabited islands at the end of the Ryuku chain, claimed by both the PRC and Japan. Possibly India and Pakistan will finally duke it out over Kashmir, that has been simmering for decades. The thought of nukes flying intercontinental is a Cold War hangover. The expression Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is as valid today as it was in the past. Say (in a wildly imaginative scenario) the PRC launches against the USA, NORAD will certainly see them coming and immediately launch a counter strike, the destruction and life loss on both sides will be immense, with no winners therefore no point to the exercise. The only world 'leader' like to do that will be that fat spaz in North Korea and despite all his posturing and rhetoric he knows full well that if he goes too far North Korea will emerge flat, glowing and lifeless within hours, fired at on all sides.<br />Russia and the Ukraine look like they'd like to settle old scores but we shall see, The Ukrainians inicially backed the Wehrmacht invaders becausee they though they were being liberated and the Russians have never forgiven them. The Ukrainians for their part have never forgotted Stalin's enforced famine in that grain-rich country that claimed @20 MILLION lives. In Eastern Europe and the Balkans ancient hatreds and feuds are ingested with mother's milk, one glance at the Balkan War atrocities should have made that clear to everybody. Whatever comes net is going to be local and probably 'off the beaten track' for the most part IMHO.Popular Frontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-86549248689231384392014-03-03T20:37:27.500-05:002014-03-03T20:37:27.500-05:00Yes, indeed. Australia and the US have fought in e...Yes, indeed. Australia and the US have fought in every war of the 20th and 21st century together. Australia, more os than the UK, is America's number one ally. As long as the Obama mindset dominates in the US, I don't see how any ally can trust any commitment by the USG.DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.com