Former US intelligence colleagues are angry and deeply worried at what has happened in Afghanistan.
Here's what I'm hearing, and why there's nearly universal belief that America and the world are in for one of the most dangerous, unpredictable times in modern history.
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Taiwan is BASED. Plus last year I read a book on Claire Chennault and the Flying Tigers, which detailed the fall of China and the escape to Taiwan. The Deep State Department not only let China fall to the commies, but they completely facilitated it. The ambassador even fired people from the embassy for being un-American, only for them to become his seniors in the State Department. One even became the ambassador to the Soviet Union.
The Deep State State Department (overrun by known commies by the way)
And on a side note, other commies in government were hellbent on giving the USSR the atomic bomb.
That's essentially what the book said (except for the atomic bomb part). It did say that while the Nationalists were being choked, the Soviets were giving the commies weapons that were surrendered to them by the retreating Japanese armies. The retreating Japanese armies had also confiscated all the crops and killed the oxen for meat as their own supplies had been choked, not even leaving any rice grains for the farmers to replant crops. Relief supplies for the people were bottlenecked at the harbors like Shanghai, since the railroads had been bombed out.
Yup, China had no rebuilding period at all. The wartime army of China was barely able to equip 30 divisions, due to lacking any port. Ironically enough,if the war had lasted till 1946, the ROC may have had a better chance with more supplies and lend lease from the USA.
Enter the USSR giving equipment to the commies and Manchuria. Manchuria was the most industrial region, and modern part of China. It avoided most of the ill effects of the long war, and the Nationalists had to expend a lot of capital to invade. By 47, they succeeded, at the cost of burning through the entire army's stockpiles of everything.
From reading the book, I was amazed to learn how the USA tried to establish a coalition government between the Kunmingtang and the communists. The commies just whined the whole time about how they weren't being treated fairly, as commies always do. While reading, it became quite apparent the deep state's strategy to establish the CCP.
Taiwan baseness or not, they manufacture a very large portion of the world's microchips.
Having that totally under China's control is bad
Jack Samson. Here it is: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-flying-tiger-jack-samson/1006965104?ean=9780762772834
No, it's called Flying Tiger by Jack Samson.
Yeah, it's a great read, and I learned a lot. I didn't know that Chennault was involved with Air America.