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I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know what the title referred to, but a quick websearch turned up a Wikipedia article titled "Great White Fleet". So now I get it. In case anyone else is wondering:

> The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the group of United States Navy battleships that completed a journey around the globe from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909, by order of President Theodore Roosevelt. It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various small escorts,[1][2] and earned its moniker for the stark white paint on its hulls.

> The fleet's primary mission was to make friendly courtesy visits to numerous countries while displaying new U.S. naval power to the world; Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military prowess and blue-water naval capabilities. [...]

The neocons still refuse to accept the reality that the US and its allies cannot prevail militarily against anyone and everyone. Perhaps a stinging defeat in Ukraine will finally abuse them of their ghoulish fantasies of omnipotence. Here in Europe, I don't think anyone has the stomach to move to a full-blown war economy. We have become bit-players.

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Nobody is going to fight a war for Biden he is dumber than Bush . . . The United States government is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli political Action Committee.

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Jewish Corruption in Ukraine . . . by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

❝. . . the present conflict is a huge distraction from the fact that, for decades, the biggest threat to Ukraine hasn’t been Russia, but financiers and speculators operating with impunity within Ukraine’s borders to exploit ethnic Ukrainians and plunder their resources.❞

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/02/17/jewish-corruption-in-ukraine/

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Hmm. This would be an interesting analysis if you considered the US would not confront China alone. That’s be publicly stated. Any Taiwan conflict would ultimately include Japans Maritime Defense (200 by 2030). Australia. The Philippines. Maybe South Korea. Not to mention Taiwan. Maybe some European allies. I’m not sure aside from Russia who might be capable of aiding China in the maritime sphere. Although I’m not a military analyst.

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I would not count on Asians, whose livelihoods all depend on China, to declare war on China, given America's distance and reputation for treachery.

They might still go to Iraq or some such war, but not China, which can crush them like bugs.

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Godfree Roberts

I doubt South Korea would interfere. China and North Korea have a mutual defense pact.

Philippines can only offer bases and ports. Australia is too far away to offer timely intervention.

Japan is a wild card. But they know that they would lose their entire navy in a Taiwan conflict and whatever remains of their economy will be completely cratered.

China would destroy all Taiwan defenses and bases with artillery and missiles before even one PLAN boat leaves the dock.

The US sees the writing on the wall. Hence the strengthing of the second island chain and remaining parts of the first. And forcing TSMC to build a plant in Arizona.

Even the Taiwanese are waking up. They don't want to die for America.

And the fleet numbers above don't include the Chinese maritime militia who are ready to fight and die if called up to serve.

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Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo with nine ships in March 1854 and forced Japan to enter into trade with the United States... Russia, Britain, France, and Holland used their fleets on several occasions to defeat and disarm the Japanese feudal domains that defied them.

The Black Dragon Society (Kyūjitai; 黑龍會; Shinjitai: 黒竜会, kokuryūkai), or the Amur River Society, was a prominent paramilitary, ultranationalist group in Japan. The Kokuryūkai was founded in 1901 by martial artist Uchida Ryohei as a successor to his mentor Mitsuru Tōyama's Gen'yōsha. The purpose of the organization was to keep the Russian Empire North of the Amur River and out of East Asia.

Japan was attacked first . . . and when Japan finally got the upper hand on their ancient Chinese enemy, they were stabbed in the back by the United States who put a trade embargo on them, after robbing them at gunpoint almost a century before . . . Being on the wrong side of two world wars will have lasting consequences for the USA.

Looks like Don Rumsfeld was right with the comment ‘Europe has shifted on its axis’, the wrong side won WW2, and it is becoming clearer with each and every day . . . What has NATO done to defend Europe? Absolutely nothing . . . My enemies are not in Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh, or in some ethereal Teutonic boogeyman, my enemies are in Washington, Brussels, and Tel Aviv . . . Heil Hitler.

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lmao this is delusional even by blob standards

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