Letter
As we awake from the American dream...
Les MacDonald’s summary of the military capabilities of the two belligerent superpowers makes frightening reading; that’s if you can count America as a superpower at all. Trump and his cronies may be sitting on a superpower arsenal, but as the Trump dictatorship starts to unfurl its true colours, the support of the citizenry is being withdrawn.
Moreover, presuming the superpower clash Trump is urging comes about, China will be bombing Taiwan, not Pearl Harbour. Japan’s savage rampage through Mongolia and China didn’t stir the isolationists in the 1930s doing so nicely out of the Lend/Lease program. It wasn’t till the Day of Infamy that America moved to a full war footing. Given the current team of sycophants under Trump, America’s moribund manufacturing capacity and the mood of a disillusioned and war weary society, the outcome of the clash, even without MacDonald’s damning situation report, is all too clear.
Measured beside the outcome of America’s Vietnam humiliation when battling a primarily agrarian economy, the very thought of going to war against China on its home turf, or any turf for that matter, is ludicrous. Although alarmingly, not beyond the whims of a US president intoxicated by a mythical American exceptionalism.
— John Mosig from Kew, Victoria