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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 10:29 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *….* *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] US ‘failed miserably’ in wargame reportedly against
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>  Then what?
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> spike  Of course you know the answer:  outgo has to equal income.   bill w
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> Ja.  But how does that happen please sir?  The US national debt is
> well-known, the deficit is well-known.  The fact that the US fed hasn’t
> balanced a budget in decades demonstrates that it will not and cannot.
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> This leads to a clear message being sent to Taiwan: if China attacks, the
> US military will not come to your aid.  It will not because it cannot.  We
> do not have the resources and cannot risk China refusing to lend the fed
> the funds it needs just to meet normal operating budgets in peacetime.
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> What part of that argument is not perfectly clear please?  Anyone?
> Anyone?  Beuuuullerrrr…
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The part where you assign to the President and Congress (who would
ultimately assign the war), that sort of foresight.

Military response would come anyway, long term economic consequences be
damned.  They might consider looting China to replace loans.  More likely,
they just won't care.
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