What’s a Cope?

I prefer the Federalist Papers in a fresh new edition, lightly charred and salted with olive oil on the side. Yum.

I guess that must be it… I mean inferiority complexes driving high speed rail rollout, ICBM silo build outs, naval buildups, fifth generation fighters which might actually work unlike the F22 boondoggle, and your cellphone and your router, and your PC… Sounds to me like everyone should be going out and acquiring an Inferiority Complex stat.

Or can you eat the Federalist Papers?

I’m not a Chinese. I don’t get to do a victory dance if they win. But there are still too many ***Copes***. Sorry. Fact.

PS: As with everyone, the Chinese will grudgingly respect strength and competence. But as with women.. past performance wins you no prizes. What can you do *Today*? Everyone in the West is living and coping on Past Performances.

Not to quibble because it would give China access to Iran’s oil but Pakistan’s ports lie on the Arabian Sea, which is adjacent to the Gulf of Oman that leads to the Persian Gulf.
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Zaphod,

“The Chinese despise everyone.”

That’s my understanding as well. You do know that to be prima facie evidence of a massive inferiority complex… real confidence doesn’t need to look down upon others as inferiors. It takes others on their merits and the character they exhibit.

Pakistan and China have been close allies since the 1950s. You *do* know that, don’t you?

I mean there’s this large heaving head-wiggling excrement-bespattered mass of humanity wedged between them which neither of them particularly like and with which both of them have fought wars.

One of your immediate problems is Indians IN your country — some Silicon Valley Indians bought the vice-presidency of the United States for a lark… and all of them hate you as a Legacy White Male. Or there’s the Indian Nepotism Mafia #$%^ed up Intel and put it 10 years behind in sub-10nm process technology. Worry about them.

The Punishment for Pakis is being Pakis. It’s plenty enough. Oh… and for sure the Chinese *do* despise them. The Chinese despise everyone. But politely and inscrutably. News at 10.

Past US support for Pakistan goes along with US Support for the Khmer Rouge (no, really,.. I’m serious). Just. Stop.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3146534/repatriated-remains-soldiers-show-south-korea-and-china-have

But, Pakistan is a failed state with a collapsed economy. PMIC must rely on foreign funding to keep going.

For many years it was the US and Saudi Arabia. But that has gone downhill and (fingers crossed) will disappear completely soon.

Luckily for PMIC, China has money and is looking for friends and tangible resources. PMIC has 1. ports on the Persian Gulf which China needs so that it can ensure its oil supply from Iran, 2 and lots of minerals such as Lithium in Afghanistan.

It is a marriage made in hell. Pakistan prides itself on its being a Muslim country. China has a long tradition of exterminating Muslims. the Uyghurs are just the latest: The genocide of the Dzungar Mongols in the 18th century. https://razib.substack.com/p/made-in-china

OTOH, the Pakistanis are our enemies. They hate us as kufirs. So, it is hard to work up any concern for them.

Sooner or later they will discover how cheaply they have sold their souls to the Chinese. In that hour, their wails and moans will be sweet music to our ears.

America’s leftists and the deeply foolish liberals who enable it.

Through much blood and an astronomical amount of treasure, we held back the flood for a time. America has yet to reach consensus as to the true motivations of Islam’s jihadists and an inability to rech consensus about the nature and identify of an enemy is a guarantee of failure.

Islam itself is the jihadist’s sole motivation.

Jihadists are the most devoted of all Muslims for they are willing to die in pursuit of Allah’s commands.

Nor as I have consistently argued does the West have to make war upon the world’s Muslims. Eviction yes, as Islam’s tenets are utterly incompatible with “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Followed by implementing measures that attach what for jihadists are intolerable consequence to jihadist terrorism. Trump proved that America’s energy independence is achievable. Let Western Europe defend itself if it wishes to survive hijrah (migratory jihad). Let the Middle East pound sand. We need neither them nor anything they have.

If not, how long till Pakistan or China acting covertly, enables jihadists to ‘steal’ a shipment of nuclear bombs? Bringing some across our southern border is not outside the realm of possibilities. Perhaps after a few major American cities are rendered uninhabitable, societal consensus will emerge as to Islam’s inherent nature…

So too with the world’s hostile communist regimes. Foremost of which is China and yet, we still buy from them. Gleefully laughing as we buy the rope with which they plan to hang America.

As far as I know there is no impetus by businesses and US governments to implement a full transition away from doing business with an inarguable enemy.

Can there be any greater irony in today’s America than that the hated right is the only hope liberals have for escaping the fate that enabling the left shall bring upon them?

Not forgetting that Bin Laden was also once *your* ally against the evil terrible nasty scary rotten child-killing goddamn Commies.

Simple really… Geofence places like Afghanistan and Pakistan. Deny entry to the USA for their citizens and for that matter their genetic signatures. Pay no attention to what they do to women, goats, or boys… it’s none of anyone else’s business. Punitive raids OK if they misbehave in the USA. USA not to undertake punitive action on behalf of *other* nations or some nebulous *joint security*… purely self-interest. Nuke from orbit if super egregious terrorist activity in USA proven originate from there. Promoters of debacles like F22 Raptor to be parachuted into Kandahar with blunt Bowie Knife to encourage more common sense defense procurement… Lots of good things can be done with that place at one millionth the cost.

The folks who sleepwalked into August 1914 were High IQ geniuses (perhaps not Nicky) cf. clowns on *all* sides of political spectrum in the Imperial Capital today.

Expect worse and you won’t be disappointed.

For the rest. Stop Digging. Hole plenty deep already. Let them @#$% each other and their goats.