Comments by "Philip B" (@philipb2134) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

Against an amphibious assault, Taiwan would better be served by land-based anti-ship missiles, saving their outnumbered air force for air-to-air combat.
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05:-06 We are in an unusual situation of having high latent demand which can not be satisfied due to supply constraints - and that includes labor. This downturn might evaporate if supply chains become untied. This is most what makes the current economic context so... interesting.
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The monetized share of created value had significantly shifted toward the holders of capital and the creators of applied intellect. That has happened time and again over history since the deployment of the steam engine, and forensically well before.
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You might remind yourself that, in Jefferson's time, most specie was in the form of metal units of money; you might also note that: in the 2+ centuries following Jefferson's Presidency... at no time anything close to a significant proportion of the children of citizens came to wake into homelessness (corrected for the weighted impact of epidemic disruptions and ~ the Dust Bowl). Much as I admire Jefferson otherwise, he was no luminary as an economist.
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@freedomfighter22222 Murmansk and Arkangelsk are ports situated on the open ocean, no need for a vessel to go anywhere near Denmark; from Vladivostok or Nakhodka, a merchant ship might pass through the La Perouse Strait, or -- if there were a threat - north of Sakhalin. Not very good at geography, are you?
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@haroldrhodes2610 I would have hoped that people would stop writing "would of hoped".
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Trump had declared that his 10,996 sq ft triplex was 33,000 sq ft, at a valuation never yet seen. That is fraud.
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@alexlazar4738 How well Taiwan can be defended is subject to 2 main factors: whether they receive military assistance, and how much pain CCP is ready to absorb and to inflict.
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@PSGaming-jk3iz What is the name of the Chinese "military general " (sic) were you thinking of?
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@marcusonesimus3400 "There are military generals, typically one per nation"...you really don't know what you're talking about, do you? In the US Air Force, there are seven 4-star generals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_duty_United_States_four-star_officers and there are many more generals of lower rank, I n Western countries: among field commands, a 1-star general typically commands a brigade, hence the title "brigadier general" (there are plenty of them); a 2-star typically will be in command of a division, and so on. You deride commentators on this thread as "armchair generals", but there actually are civilians who are very well informed about military matters. Some people learn a lot about sport; others learn a lot about warfare. I applaud Tiago Gomes. I had studied Operation Overlord, and am well aware of the risks involved in an amphibious invasion - and the Allies had better odds at succeeding in 1944 than PLA would have now. IMO the PRC would have a better chance if they went the same route as Operation Mercury: the Germans started with an airborne invasion of Crete, and once the paratroopers took the airport a Meleme, they were able rapidly to fly in reinforcements and conquer the island.
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03:55 Ukraine does not export 47% of the word's sunflower seed oil; instead, its share of sunflower seed oil exports might be 47%. There is a major difference, as some countries have significant domestic production, much of which might never make it to export markets. Argentina and Romania each produce more than a fifth as much as Ukraine, for example. Yours was sloppy reporting.
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That was attributed to Einstein, but he was far too intelligent to say such a thing.
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@cdfdesantis699 Except that he never said it. He must have known that there are a number of human activities which require doing the same thing over again and expecting different results - in fact it is necessary in some cases, particularly in education or in training for a sport. If at first you don't succeed: try, try again. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." — not Albert Einstein Different versions of this quote appear everywhere (doing the same thing twice, expecting the same result, etc.), and we owe none of them to Einstein. After Michael Becker, an editor at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (a local paper in Montana), let the wrong version slide into an editorial, he did some research on his personal blog. Becker traced the original back to Rita Mae Brown, the mystery novelist. In her 1983 book "Sudden Death," she attributes the quote to a fictional "Jane Fulton," writing, "Unfortunately, Susan didn’t remember what Jane Fulton once said. 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.'"
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@cdfdesantis699 Are you aware that it is almost universally impossible to prove a negative? I also can't prove that Einstein never said "my cousin Cleopatra"... it it, too, is massively unlikely. There are no known contemporaneous citations (many have researched this.) Also, it is goofy: acquiring a variety of skills require doing the same thing over again, expecting different results. Einstein would also likely have been aware that sometimes an action might not be successful, but repetition eventually change conditions so as to achieve the desired result. Think: battering ram.
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There is talk about of a "world war." The wars which many project to be (perhaps) likely to happen... unlikely would be fought on anything like a global scale.
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@fuleinist Nancy Pelosi has no say over any potential combat operations between PRC and ROC. Are you sure you're posting to the right group? You seem to be lost.
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@DevonHensley211 As in many endeavours, you need to use scarce resources most effectively. All weapons systems have their own advantages and drawbacks (although some are heavy on drawbacks). It is best to prioritize according to capabilities and according to needs.
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This WSJ video is a hit piece. Both Biden and Trump were illegally in possession of restricted documentd; Biden complied with the investigation, Trump did everything might to thwart it. Yet WSJ gives Trump even another platform to spout false martyrdom.
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Might you describe the mechanism by which "a recession is pretty much bound to happen"?
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@MutheiM_Marz SSBNs are stand-off weapons systems - and Taiwan possesses none.
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We might not easily take the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal as a subservient proxy of "woke" journalism. Carry on.
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Re place
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Security footage can be helpful; yours was not compelling. When WWII broke out, Camus exppressed that: the world of the beasts has started. My rejoinder: the World of Wonder has been buriied some much indeterminate longer.
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Unless you're using a battering ram!
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@freedomfighter22222 European Russia would still have Murmansk and Arkangelsk as major free water ports, and on the Pacific: Nakhodka and Vladivostok.
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@freedomfighter22222 The problem at hand is your lack of understanding that merchant ships are not military targets.
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@charleshoang7687 That would be a war crime. I sense that the general staff is more honorable than that.
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@tams805 Taiwan is mountainous to the western side of the island - which is significant, because that would seriously complicate an amphibious invasion. Have you ever been to Taiwan? When I was there last time, there were many areas on the eastern side of the island that were quite flat, well suited for agriculture, and very viable for parachute landings (and, yes, I have parachuted).
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@marcusonesimus3400 "There is a difference between theoretical knowledge of a subject and practical knowledge"... etcetera. At the level of planning an invasion, or defending against one, it's almost all theoretical. Having direct experience of combat might be helpful... or instead have the commander fight the last war over again (France 1940). Many countries have no recent experience of combat: so then how might the Brass be better tasked at devising strategy for major operations than a civilian master of deployments and logistics? There were war games very popular with the civilian population in the 1970s, such as Avalon Hill's "Bitzkrieg", which were used as training tools for upper-echelon command among several NATO allies. I contend that a brilliant civilian can be better at strategic decision-making than a career military mediocrity The German occupation of Crete ended with the fall of the 3rd Reich. We can hold that this was a Good Thing.
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WSJ, you're late. Other info channels had documented this many months ago
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