It makes me angry but it also saddens me that a former military pilot could so easily sell out his country - to China. China's targeting of vulnerable individuals to get what they want is very sophisticated and most in the West have been completely oblivious to it. China is not a partner in any way. They are an enemy of the US. They just try to destroy us more covertly under the guise of economic cooperation. They don't have anything that they didn't steal and copy - and they can't even make good copies most of the time, especially when it comes to military tech because their system is rotted with corruption.

The only thing that brings me any solace when it comes to a situation like with this traitor pilot, is the fact that the Chinese military may be able to steal our methods and tactics, but their ability to apply them given the command structure of the PLA is another thing. The PLA cannot operate on an semiautonomous integrated systems level like we can. Commanders and field officers in the PLA have no autonomous decision making abilities in combat much less battlefield units. Everything must go up the chain of command and then wait for commands to come back down. No one dares to make choices for fear of making a mistake. That has always been the biggest problem with the PLA. Everyone basically has a script and they follow the script. Thinking for oneself is not allowed. Problem solving is also not allowed.

PLA solders are expendable. They even have literal kill switches on Chinese solders and pilots that can be activated by commanding officers if a soldier is wounded and separated from their unit, or if they possibly may be captured. It is more important that whatever information a soldier may have does not get into the hands of the adversary. The Chinese people were shocked when they were told what the US was willing to spend in money and manpower to save one weapons officer in Iran. The CCP tried to spin the situation as how stupid and wasteful the US was trying to rescue one pilot. It backfired on the CCP propaganda machine bigly. We are not the same and the Chinese netizens were given a huge reality check about the differences in value systems. Let's just say this reality check did not cast the CCP in a favorable light with their own citizens according to what they were posting on social media.

Glad you liked the video. The other one is very informative as well. Lei does an excellent job in pulling in so much CCP information and knowledge, breaking it down to explain it all to Westerners. I like her analysis of the CCP and how it operates better than most of the so called China experts out there. The State Dept could learn a thing or two from her.

It makes me angry but it also saddens me that a former military pilot could so easily sell out his country - to China. China's targeting of vulnerable individuals to get what they want is very sophisticated and most in the West have been completely oblivious to it. China is not a partner in any way. They are an enemy of the US. They just try to destroy us more covertly under the guise of economic cooperation. They don't have anything that they didn't steal and copy - and they can't even make good copies most of the time, especially when it comes to military tech because their system is rotted with corruption.

The only thing that brings me any solace when it comes to a situation like with this traitor pilot, is the fact that the Chinese military may be able to steal our methods and tactics, but their ability to apply them given the command structure of the PLA is another thing. The PLA cannot operate on an semiautonomous integrated systems level like we can. Commanders and field officers in the PLA have no autonomous decision making abilities in combat much less battlefield units. Everything must go up the chain of command and then wait for commands to come back down. No one dares to make choices for fear of making a mistake. That has always been the biggest problem with the PLA. Everyone basically has a script and they follow the script. Thinking for oneself is not allowed. Problem solving is also not allowed.

PLA solders are expendable. They even have literal kill switches on Chinese solders and pilots that can be activated by commanding officers if a soldier is wounded and separated from their unit, or if they possibly may be captured. It is more important that whatever information a soldier may have does not get into the hands of the adversary. The Chinese people were shocked when they were told what the US was willing to spend in money and manpower to save one weapons officer in Iran. The CCP tried to spin the situation as how stupid and wasteful the US was trying to rescue one pilot. It backfired on the CCP propaganda machine bigly. We are not the same and the Chinese netizens were given a huge reality check about the differences in value systems. Let's just say this reality check did not cast the CCP in a favorable light with their own citizens according to what they were posting on social media.

Glad you liked the video. The other one is very informative as well. Lei does an excellent job in pulling in so much CCP information and knowledge breaking it down to explain it all to Westerners. I like her analysis of the CCP and how it operates better than most of the so called China experts out there. The State Dept could learn a thing or two from her.

It makes me angry but it also saddens me that a former military pilot could so easily sell out his country - to China. China's targeting of vulnerable individuals to get what they want is very sophisticated and most in the West have been completely oblivious to it. China is not a partner in any way. They are an enemy of the US. They just try to destroy us more covertly under the guise of economic cooperation. They don't have anything that they didn't steal and copy - and they can't even make good copies most of the time, especially when it comes to military tech because their system is rotted with corruption.

The only thing that brings me any solace when it comes to a situation like with this traitor pilot, is the fact that the Chinese military may be able to steal our methods and tactics, but their ability to apply them given the command structure of the PLA is another thing. The PLA cannot operate on an semiautonomous integrated systems level like we can. Commanders and field officers in the PLA have no autonomous decision making abilities in combat much less battlefield units. Everything must go up the chain of command and then wait for commands to come back down. No one dares to make choices for fear of making a mistake. That has always been the biggest problem with the PLA. Everyone basically has a script and they follow the script. Thinking for oneself is not allowed. Problem solving is also not allowed.

PLA solders are expendable. They even have literal kill switches on Chinese solders and pilots that can be activated by commanding officers if a soldier is wounded and separated from their unit, or if they possibly may be captured. It is more important that whatever information a soldier may have does not get into the hands of the adversary. The Chinese people were shocked when they were told what the US was willing to spend in money and manpower to save one weapons officer in Iran. The CCP tried to spin the situation as how stupid and wasteful the US was trying to rescue one pilot. It backfired on the CCP propaganda machine bigly. We are not the same and the Chinese netizens were given a huge reality check about the differences in value systems. Let's just say this reality check did cast the CCP in a favorable light with their own citizens according to what they were posting on social media.

Glad you liked the video. The other one is very informative as well. Lei does an excellent job in pulling in so much CCP information and knowledge breaking it down to explain it all to Westerners. I like her analysis of the CCP and how it operates better than most of the so called China experts out there. The State Dept could learn a thing or two from her.