Potential Flashpoint for Internatinal Conflict

Thank you again Malachi.
All makes for scary reading .

Hi rjpeters. Hope you have been well.
Thank you for that information. If you feel happier, I feel safer!

@rjpeters70:

Doing ok.  How’s life with you, Leo?

The thing about the PRC is that, they’re so inexperienced, that if they get pushed against wall (i.e., losing a fight that they don’t think they can lose without losing face), what will they do?  No one knows, and that’s the dangerous thing.

They will do what they have always done, and what they have experience with…

Throwing bodies on the fire to keep Communism working.

I appreciate that.

Fine. Had to replace my roof, which has ripped a huge hole in
My savings and meant I have had to fiddle around with money, including taking money out of  my business account.
Glad you have been fine.

Afternoon Garg.
I trust you too have been well.

Whilst you have been fixing you roof, the Chinese have been building BOMBS!

Last week the rain and the Chinese could have penetrated my house.
Now, neither can.
I feel safe again, albeit poorer.

Nippon will prevail; I have all faith in the Rising Sun.

@wittmann:

I appreciate that.

Fine. Had to replace my roof, which has ripped a huge hole in
My savings and meant I have had to fiddle around with money, including taking money out of  my business account.
Glad you have been fine.

How is the roof now?

Morning Worsham.
Totally repaired, thank you. I had scaffolding up for the two weeks it took to complete the work. At one point I had 3 men working on it.
I am scared of heights, but I did twice go up the scaffolding and have a look at the old and new roof. I also needed some repair work doing to my chimney and some new lead for one of my five valleys. Very good job has been done.
My only complaint, or sadness let us say, is that the house has lost some of its look. It is an early Victorian stone property, with a Gothic look and the new slate roof has changed it.
I could not afford to have the more expensive tiles, unfortunately.
My next door neighbour (is a semi) has also been around complaining to that effect.
My wife and I are really happy as it has not stopped raining these past few weeks and we feel safer and better now.
Thank you for asking Worsham.

Give me your next door neighbours address if he gives you any problems.  And this thread will have some real international “flashpoints” to talk about. ;)

Hi Garg.
She is being irrational and her boyfriend is in the trade(did not know or may have asked him) and has been pointing out how his friend would have done it differently and cheaper…I wish he would go away!
She told me her husband did her roof 15 years ago and started crying, saying how it has been ruined. The roofers spoke to her while they were working on my half and told her they could address any queries or concerns to them. I have repeated this to her. I cannot change anything!

Here’s an interesting article on the Japan-China dispute:

The 1914 debate: Is Europe’s past really Asia’s future?
The Japan-China provocations show no sign of letting up
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-1914-debate-is-europe-s-past-really-asia-s-future-1.2527625

Rjpeters.

I’m going to call you out… Lol…

For all your “China has no experience” talk… Didn’t USA lose its last major conflict with China?  In Korea?

History seems to recall it did.  Much of which was based on the morality of dropping the bomb, vs the red mentality of meat fuels the fire.

And weren’t the Chinese in that conflict also grossly out gunned, and out equipped?

Granted some commanders had experience from internal conflicts and the Japanese conflict,  but it was virgin troops being sent to their deaths by the scores.

Any thoughts on that?

There’s a conversation in the last chapter of Harold Coyle’s novel Bright Star that Garg might find interesting to read.  As I recall (because I read the book ages ago), the novel describes a brief US / USSR shooting war in Egypt, which ends in a kind of stalemate from which both sides prudently climb down rather than pushing the escalation button.  A junior US Army officer approaches the hero of the book (I think he’s a major) in a chow line and starts complaining, wondering out loud why “we stopped before kicking some serious Soviet butt” or something along those lines.  The major patiently lectures him, bringing up all kinds of considerations that hadn’t occured to the junior officer.  The young man digests this for a long moment then says, “So all we did was restore the status quo?”  The major responds by making the two points that: a) the status quo isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and b) that status quos aren’t really static, that things change all the time, especially over the longer term.

@MrMalachiCrunch:

I was thinking of this thread with the recent troubles there and the island building by China.  I didn’t realize it was over 3 years I predicted this.  Mind you, give enough time nearly any prediction can come true……and the Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup…one can only hope…

The Leafs have been given enough hope, and prayers… they need a volcanic sacrifice.

Good to see you back Malachi.

Stick around!

Agreed.
He will too! @Gargantua:

Good to see you back Malachi.

Stick around!