Jan 022019
 

‘Sink two aircraft carriers’: Chinese Admiral’s chilling recipe to dominate the South China Sea

On the one hand, the idea that an Asian power would cause the US to let them do whatever they want if they only took out some US Navy ships up front has been tried before. On the other hand:

In his speech, he said there were ‘five cornerstones of the United States’ open to exploitation: their military, their money, their talent, their voting system — and their fear of adversaries.

He’s not exactly wrong. Still… I *suspect8 that if China decides to take out a few US supercarriers, they’ll quickly find themselves in one hell of a war. I suspect it could easily go nuclear.

 Posted by at 1:51 am
Jan 012019
 

Some sort of cold/flu thing has knocked me on my keister for the last week or so, peaking in awfulness yesterday morning/the night before. *Hopefully* it’s in the declining-awfulness phase, but in any event it has ruined not only my productiveness but also put a damper on the higher functions. Been sorts running on neutral for a few days. So *this* is what it must be like being an NPC…

Anyway, in lieu of my usual scintillating prose, here are some random photos of no particular worth.

Cutler Marina a week or so ago.

Banshee catching some zzzz’s

Footprints in the snow.

Yesterday I crawled to a vertical attitude and drove to town to get some food. The local Shopko seems to be getting an early start on holidays *months* away.

 Posted by at 2:48 pm