No your excellency. It’s true we Americans don’t know very much about you Japanese. And we never did. And now I realize you know even less about us. You can kill us. All of us, or part of us. But if you think that’s going to put the fear of god into the United States of America, and stop them from sending other flyers to bomb you, you’re wrong. Dead wrong. They’ll come by night, they’ll come by day. Thousands of them. They’ll blacken your skies and burn your cities to the ground and make you get down on your knees and beg for mercy. This is your war. You wanted it. You asked for it. You started it. And now you’re going to get it. And it won’t be finished until your dirty little empire is wiped off the face of the earth.
The Purple Heart (1944)
A Chinese Admiral recently made this statement:
Luo Yuan, rear admiral in the People’s Liberation Army Navy, the deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, and a well-known hawk, was invited to attend a meeting in Shenzhen on December 20 and delivered a speech regarding the current Sino–U.S. relationship.
Luo Yuan claimed that the US-China trade war “is definitely not a simple economic and trade friction” but an “important strategic issue.” The origin of the conflict is that “the U.S. national strategy has changed.” In the United States, there are many differences between the two parties, between the House and Senate, and among the White House, the Department of Defense, and the Department of State. The only consensus they have is the China issue.
In his speech, Luo Yuan strongly advocated that China should respond with “asymmetric counterattacks.” That is, “use my strength to attack the enemy’s shortcomings. Strike at what the enemy fears. Focus our development on the enemy’s soft spot.”
Luo Yuan said that the “five fundamental foundations of the United States” are the military, the dollar, talent, the ballot, and the creation of enemies. Among them, in the military, “the United States is most afraid of death.” Luo suggested using a missile to sink one U.S. ship and cause 5,000 casualties, and two with 10,000 casualties. “Let’s see if the U.S. is afraid or not.”
Go here to read the rest. Hmmm, what would the US do? Well, the last time an Asian power tried that we burned to the ground most of their major cities, and then dropped a small sun on them, twice. Based on history the words of the Incredible Hulk might well apply to the American people when they are truly enraged:
Don’t make me angry -you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
“Don’t make me angry -you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”
Amen.
I don’t know. On 9/11/01 we lost just about the same number of people we lost on 12/7/41. And 17 years later, we’re still more Sean Thornton than Dr. David Banner.
It’ll be interesting to see how the Chicom government reacts
to their Rear Admiral’s remarks. Will there be backtracking,
silence, or will Luo Yuan receive a public pat on the head?
That will tell us a lot about whether or not the man is an out-
lier, or if his masters in Beijing are as insane as he is.
Olaf Stapledon in his book Last and First Men envisioned a planet-wide rivalry between the US and China with the subsequent rise of the First World State. He was a bit wacky in his socialism and he never foresaw the rise of Nazi Germany. Further, his wasn’t any Christian God (see Starmaker and Last Man in London). But he wasn’t all wrong about the coming conflict between America and China.
Perhaps one of our appropriately ranking generals should make a diplomatic journey to China to let the good general know in the event of the scenarios such as he those he blusteringly describes, a bunker buster bomb (“MOAB”) with his name on it has already been prepared for an instant response. “We will find you, General ‘Lu!’”
History is littered with bellicose generals that when the shooting starts they are holed up in their bunkers like the cowards they are. Hi, Gen Lu!
[Has anyone told the good general about what happened to Admiral Yamamoto, the chief (tho reluctant) planner of the Pearl Harbor attack?]
China has millions of men. They gave poor quality weapons and virtually no fuel of their own.
Japan kicked their posteriors. They should remember that.
I don’t know. On 9/11/01 we lost just about the same number of people we lost on 12/7/41. And 17 years later, we’re still more Sean Thornton than Dr. David Banner.
We basically drove over the top of Iraq– seriously, the speed of that war is only slightly less than what you’d calculate for a simple, straight drive– and the Taliban, which was in full control of most of Afghanistan and had money/men for outreach. They are now an Afghani version of a Mexican cartel, with a few pretensions.
We didn’t turn them into, oh, down town LA–but we definitely did a smash. (Arguments that being more smashy might’ve worked better are going to be met with a sigh and we’ll never know.)
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Japan kicked their posteriors. They should remember that.
As best I can understand it, the Chinese mindset is…weird.
It’s like an organized version of the Islamic one– somehow, none of the defeats ever “count.” So them invading Japan whenever it was means that Japan is really theirs, temporarily out of order, while Japan taking over entire sections of their claimed land is an insult, not them losing.
He probably is hoping to make us shy away from the islands they’re building in the middle of trade zones, and let China take control of the shipping/fishing.
I strongly recommend Steve Mosher’s book, “Bully of Asia”. Steve, who leads the Population Research Institute (PRI is a strong Catholic prolife organization), is also a China expert having lived there for years and became fluent in two Chinese dialects. He’s testified before Congress, taught at military academies and War Colleges and helped Special Ops teams think through the Chinese challenge. Excellent book filled with insights about the Chinese ambition to become the global hegemonic power.