[ExI] US ‘failed miserably’ in wargame reportedly against China attack on Taiwan

[spike at rainier66.com]

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Subject: RE: [ExI] US ‘failed miserably’ in wargame reportedly against China attack on Taiwan

 

 

 

…. On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] US ‘failed miserably’ in wargame reportedly against China attack on Taiwan

 

 Then what?

 

spike  Of course you know the answer:  outgo has to equal income.   bill w

 

>…Ja.  But how does that happen please sir?  The US national debt is well-known, the deficit is well-known.  …What part of that argument is not perfectly clear please?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Beuuuullerrrr… spike

 

BillW, there is an excellent movie that came out several years ago called Flags of Our Fathers.  It was a war movie and is rough going, but it isn’t only about that.  There is a companion movie called Letters from Iwo Jima which in some ways is even better, that same struggle from the Japanese POV.  Both excellent films.

In Flags, much of the drama happens in the states, where the four guys who raised the American flag over Iwo were paraded about for PR.  But one of the four was killed in subsequent fighting, so they substituted another guy who suffered a mental breakdown as a result.

The reason I mention it is that the people back home were desperate to get Americans to buy war bonds.  The US military had guys in the field under attack in the Pacific, yet funds were so low they couldn’t mount effective attacks.  So… the flag raisers encouraged Americans to buy war bonds to finish out the war.

The US is now spending money and going into debt faster than it was during the war.  But we aren’t having desperate war bond drives now.

BillW, what changed please?

spike

 

 

 

 

 

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