Guest Post by Simon Black
By the late the fifth century BC, after decades of war with its chief rival Sparta, the ancient Greek city-state of Athens was desperate for peace.
They wanted a decisive victory to end the war once and for all. So the citizens gathered together in their public assembly– essentially a democratic mob of 6,000 people– and voted to build a new, costly fleet of ships.
The strategy worked. And their new armada vanquished the Spartan navy in the Battle of the Arginusae Islands in 406 BC.
Sparta was on the ropes, and the Assembly cheered when news of their fleet’s victory reached Athens.
But then the Assembly found out that 25 of the 150 ships had been sunk by the Spartans, and that the Athenian crews of those 25 sunken ships had drowned in a storm.
The Assembly suddenly became furious, crying that the souls of those drowned sailors would wander purgatory for all of eternity because they didn’t have a proper burial.
So then the Athenian mob voted to execute eight of their top military commanders; the very same generals and admirals who had just won the battle and been called heroes, were now being put to death.
Socrates was one of the lone voices of dissent; yet the death sentences were still carried out despite his protest.
Then, only a few days later, the Athenian Assembly had a change of heart. The mob realized that they shouldn’t have executed their military commanders, so they then voted to execute the people within the Assembly who had proposed the executions to begin with.
During this insane dumpster fire of ancient democracy, Spartan leaders approached Athens with a peace deal, offering to end the war once and for all.
This was the entire reason that Athens had built a new fleet. They just wanted peace.
But they were so distracted by infighting and arguing about who to execute next, and who to blame, that the Assembly rejected Sparta’s peace offering.
Yet Athens’ military was now led by inexperienced admirals and generals, since they had just executed their best commanders. And Sparta quickly seized the advantage.
Within a few months the Spartan navy was ravaging Athenian territory, and soon laying siege to Athens itself. The war finally ended in 404 BC with Athens losing all sovereignty and falling under complete control of the Spartan Empire.
As the old saying goes, history doesn’t necessarily repeat. But it certainly rhymes. And I was thinking about this particular episode recently when it was reported earlier this week that China has just successfully tested its first nuclear-capable hypersonic missile.
In case you don’t geek out on military strategy like I do, suffice it to say that this is a huge deal, not just for the United States, but for the entire world.
For the past several decades, the United States has boasted the strongest, most technologically advanced military in the world.
And it would be foolish to think that this military strength hasn’t substantially contributed to America’s geopolitical and economic power.
The United States Marine Corps is essentially the biggest derivatives contract in the world. It’s the US government’s ultimate hedge, enabling it wage trade wars, sanction foreign banks, and bully anyone it wants into following US regulations.
The US military is even part of the reason why the dollar is still the world’s reserve currency, despite the US government being the largest debtor that has ever existed in the history of the world.
The US government, and the US economy, both derive substantial benefit from America’s military power.
And this is why China’s rapid military development is such a big deal.
China could destroy the United States in cyberwarfare. That’s pretty much a foregone conclusion. I mean… there are still system within the US Defense Department that use 5 ¼ inch floppy disks.
But even in conventional warfare, China is gaining rapidly. The Chinese Navy already the world’s largest fleet. And this is important because one of the biggest roles of a modern navy is to project military firepower over great distances.
China is investing heavily in this capability, feverishly building new ships and developing new technology.
It has massive stockpiles of cruise missiles, most of which have larger payloads and longer range than comparable US weaponry.
This week’s hypersonic missile launch is merely the latest proof; it’s technology that the US cannot counteract either, given that hypersonic missiles are more likely to be able to evade missile defense systems.
The Chinese wasted no time gloating their achievement, calling the launch “a new blow to the US’s mentality of strategic superiority. . .”
You’d think this would be a massive wake-up call to the US federal government. The balance of power is shifting right in front of their very eyes.
Yet take a look at their priorities– spending trillions of dollars on ‘equity’ and ‘social justice’, which they claim will supposedly “cost nothing”.
They’re busy directing federal resources to target parents who are angry over the way their children are being educated.
They’re pushing people out of government service, whether through mandates, or through ideological purges to weed out those with conservative beliefs.
As the Center for Military Readiness reports, US Special Operations Command “intends to elevate diversity, inclusion, and equity above mission effectiveness and overall readiness.”
In fact a leaked Special Operations Command planning document states at least 12 times over twenty pages that “diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives” even though they provide no support to back up this assertion.
The Defense Department is exploring racial quotas in its promotion criteria. They’re planning to reduce physical fitness standards.
And military recruiting advertisements (along with those of the Central Intelligence Agency) are now focused on LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ diversity goals.
This behavior is so counterproductive that even the ancient Athenian assembly would stand in awe at its destructive stupidity.
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Hypersonic Missiles (generally Mach 5-15) are dangerous due to their ability to maneuver and generally do not achieve orbit and are under thrust for a significant portion of their flight. The Chinese test mentioned here, and that is supposedly so groundbreaking, was an ICBM for all intents and purposes. That is, it was fired into low earth orbit and re-entered the atmosphere. There is no indication it had the ability to maneuver at this phase of flight. For the record, an ICBM departs orbit and re-enters the atmosphere at Mach 21. So, this appears to be much ado about nothing.
we’ve had Hyper missiles for 10 years, we just don’t advertise it
And you know this HOW?
I’ll bet you read it on the internet. Lol
NAVy 1982
I’d tell more but, i’d have to kill you afterwords.
“…this appears to be much ado about nothing…”
Which should be obvious. If the Pentagon and DOD contractors were actually alarmed or frightened by enemy tech, their lips would be welded shut. Precisely the opposite is what we see in these over-the-top hysterical theatrics.
Glide tech missiles are able to maneuver at any point in flight. This is the only thing which distinguishes them from the multiple independently targetable warhead vehicles of traditional ICBMs.
There really is nothing to see here. And the juxtaposition of Generalissima Fingernails with the Chinese missile launch, is just more of their cartoonish level stagecraft.
Thanks for mentioning the Glide tech and your summation; much better than mine.
I heard somewhere that it was also 20 miles off its target. Same flawed engineering brought them 3 Gorges Dam. Yes, they seem to be fixin’ to kick our ass in some things, but tap that brake when their shit becomes operational.
A 50 megaton nuke that’s off by 20 miles means my ass gets fried in milliseconds instead of nanoseconds. Yay!
In nuclear war is much better to die in nanoseconds than weeks.
I don’t want to be controversial here but I’ll just come out and say it….
Nuclear war is bad.
{whistling past the graveyard becomes deafening in intensity}
I subscribe to the theory that at the UPPER levels, countries are irrelevant
it’s THEM against the people
and all propaganda is meant to control us
that’s all I got, bad day, the rats are back, I feel like Winston Smith
Fighting for your nation nowadays mean killing strangers for the sake of con men who are putting their boots on your face.
I am really starting to believe that an EMP is the fairest way out of this mess.
I’m not wearing rose-colored glasses. We would have years of hell starting almost immediately, but at least no one would vaxxes, gender or politics.
On that note, Rick Rule has a good etymological breakdown of the word politics:
Poly – from the Greek meaning “many”
tic – from the American colloquial for “blood-sucking insect.”
It actually might be a good idea to have allies on the other side of the world to re-supply us with chips & circuits that had been destroyed by an EMP. I’d prefer to partner with Japan on that than Australia or New Zealand, since those countries are clearly fascistic now.
We may be fascistic, but we still don’t manufacture anything that matters down here. Communists inside the Union movement saw to that from the 80s onward. Communist/Fascist…in the end its only about the power.
An EMP is not needed, just the click of a mouse.
The only thing it is a warning sign of is that the NWO are irrational actors that needed a reality check.
#Don’tNukeMeBro
I mean I no longer care that much if DC/NYC/LA et. al. get nuked, but what I fear most is the insane Amerikan MIC and their intentions get us 1000 nukes raining down across the rotting fruited plain.
I know, right? I’m upwind of everywhere except Seattle. I don’t think they would nuke Seattle or Portland because it would inflict greater damage on us to leave those cities as they are.
How do you kill the enemy without destroying infrastructure ?
Pandemic, Vax….?
Watch them go mad and destroy themselves?
Don’t worry the woke Knights of neek will protect us ! They say we already got a faster one ! NEEK NEEK NEEK ….
Grand Admiral Rachel will lead us on to glory.
I’ve been to a LOT of websites and watched lots of videos since the Russkies successfully launched their hyper glide missile.
Gotta tell ya …. there aren’t many sites saying this is No Big Deal. In fact, quite the opposite.
But, our TBP military analysts say it’s much ado about nothing. So, I’ll go with that. Because, loyalty.
The thing is they are conflating multiple subjects and spreading confusion. So, therefore we believe they are full of stuffing.
Hypersonic (powered) missiles are hard to make due to the problems in making engines that can work at those speeds. (Air breathing engines/Rockets can do it) The goal is longish range air breathing engines to create Hypersonic missiles. This is where the arms race is between US, Russia and China.
A Hypersonic Glide vehicle is just a different tip on an ICBM; it doesn’t need an engine because it comes out of orbit at Mach 21.
The Chinese test that is ‘so scary’ was an ICBM…and at best it was a Hyper Glide vehicle, so no new engine tech.
Liquid 02
The biggest mark of bullshiffing is that you state all that as ‘known facts’, no ambiguity to see here, move on!
The only reason you are hearing about it at all is because it has propaganda value. Don’t be a sucker.
If you don’t get the vax, you’re going to get the war. Either way, the USA will be destroyed. It’s the only thing standing in the way of the Global Elite’s New World Order.
As Russia and China don’t count [as of standing in the way of the New World Order]…
Can you say EMP and the horror that would unleash?