DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Alex Tabarrok.

The economy is strong and Trump has a significant opportunity to simply take credit for that if he avoids major disruptions. While he must fulfill some of his campaign promises, people voted for Trump not for his policies per se. Trump has leeway. No one will accuse him of flip-flopping. While these are not my first-best policies, Trump won against astounding media and elite opposition and an attempted assassination. The people have spoken, so here’s a best-case outline for following through on Trump’s policies without cratering the economy:

The New Yorker, Voice of the Crust.

Susan B. Glasser loses her shit.

Electing Donald J. Trump once could be dismissed as a fluke, an aberration, a terrible mistake—a consequential one, to be sure, yet still fundamentally an error. But America has now twice elected him as its President. It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be. His victory was a worst-case scenario—that a convicted felon, a chronic liar who mismanaged a deadly once-in-a-century pandemic, who tried to overturn the last election and unleashed a violent mob on the nation’s Capitol, who calls America “a garbage can for the world,” and who threatens retribution against his political enemies could win—and yet, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, it happened.

Gee, I guess The People aren’t buying your Woke bullshit any more, huh?

Rolling Stone, Voice of the Crust.

Andrew Perez loses his shit.

It happened, again: Democrats lost a winnable election to a racist, orange-makeup-wearing carnival barker, despite his odiousness, immorality, and unbridled corruption.

Don’t hold it in, Andrew; tell us how you really feel.

The Bulwark, Voice of the Neocon Deep State.

Bill Kristol and Andrew Eggar lose their shit.

Newsbusters.

Amazon pulled Brian Williams out of media exile on Tuesday to helm their election night coverage and when it became clear that Donald Trump would win, he proved not much has changed since his MSNBC days. Williams must have spent his exile in cave because he claimed that Republicans win because they have become “stone cold killers,” while Democrats are just “student council presidents” who are recycling nerds and if Democrats want to win again, this needs to change.

Fellow former MSNBC-er Abby Huntsman explained what Democrats are going to do next, “You always have a full autopsy, Brian, whenever you figure out if you lose it, what did we do wrong?”

The Hill, Voice of the Crust.

Max Burns loses his shit.

Newsbusters.

On today’s Morning Joe, NBC reporter Peter Alexander described the mood at a Kamala donor party in DC last night as being like “a funeral.”

And Mika Brzezinski certainly dressed for the occasion today, draped, as you see, in all black.

Claire McCaskill was near tears as she acknowledged that Trump understood the electorate better than Dems: that “fear and anger” work, and that our “better angels” have fled.

Al Sharpton predictably blamed racial and gender,”bias” and “misogyny” among black and Hispanic men for Kamala’s poor showing with them.

Joe Scarborough, for the moment, put aside his Kamala-toady persona and told things like they are, speaking of Dems being “wiped out,” and Trump scoring an incredible red wave equalling anything going back to Reagan’s 1984 landslide, even winning the popular vote for only the second time by any Republican in 36 years.

New York Times.

The Grey Lady loses her shit.

The Hill, Voice of the Crust.

Liz Cheney loses her shit.

Newsbusters.

It was not official that Donald Trump would win the presidential election during The Daily Show’s live taping on Tuesday night on Comedy Central, but the writing was on the wall as the assembled cast struggled to deal the news as the guy with the bleep button got a workout.

First there was Troy Iwata, who was playing the role of a reporter at Trump’s headquarters and who was also dressed in a garbage bag, “The mood here is also very tense, Jon. People are really sick of all the positive signs and just want to find out the results so they can start the insurrection.”

Host Jon Stewart acted confused, “Wait, Trump seems to be doing well.”

The Atlantic, Voice of the Crust.

Tom Nichols loses his shit.

OffMessage, Voice of the Crust.

Brian Beutler (sounds like Hitler) loses his shit.

Guess he was more comfortable with the Old Autocracy.

The United States and the world will soon be in the hands of mercurial, vindictive, greedy men with scores to settle and few checks on their power.

Oh? Did Joe Biden get re-elected?

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Google searches for “Move to Canada” surged overnight, almost in parallel with Trump’s rising election odds, as the historic election swung key battleground states in his favor. Internet searches related to leaving the country continued climbing in the early morning hours, predominantly from liberal-leaning states.

Most of the “Move to Canada” searches on Google came from states like Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Oregon.

The Atlantic., Voice of the Crust.

David Frum loses his shit.

Politico.

Donald Trump didn’t just beat Kamala Harris. He beat the system that tried to put him in jail.

He was already the first former president ever to be charged with and convicted of felonies. Now he has become the first convicted felon ever to win a presidential election. And his victory virtually guarantees that he will never face serious legal accountability for an avalanche of alleged wrongdoing.

Trump’s imminent return to the White House shatters years of work by special counsel Jack Smith to convict Trump for his attempt to subvert the 2020 election and for the stockpile of classified documents he kept at his Florida estate.

It halts the prosecution he is facing in Georgia for his 2020 election plot as well.

It almost certainly allows Trump to postpone any sentence on his New York conviction for covering up a hush money scheme in 2016.

In short, the president-elect is now his own judge and jury, insulated from the criminal consequences he might have faced without the legal force field of the Oval Office.

And it BURNS, doesn’t it? Wave goodbye to the kangaroo courts hopping for cover.

Dr Orion Taraban:

Our living environment is a reflection of our consciousness. Disorder without is very often an indication of disorder within. However, the relationship here is bidirectional. And this is fortunate, as a little clutter is much easier to sort through than the detritus of our pasts. If you’re feeling stuck or out of sorts, one of the easiest ways to bring a little more clarity into your thinking is to clean and organize your living space.

I’ve found this is especially true if you’re struggling with depression. In this state, even the most basic tasks can seem overwhelming – which can keep people immobilized in despair. It’s important to combat this feeling by chaining sequences of small wins. Start with what is immediately on hand and acknowledge your effort. Laundry is great for this: there are always clothes to be cleaned. And I’ve found that – even if I do nothing else all day – I somehow feel accomplished if I’m able to finish a load.

The Register.

Japan’s wooden satellite has been launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a mission to prove that wood can be a viable material for use in space.

Trust the Japanese to make a satellite out of wood.

LignoSat is a 10 cm cubesat made mainly of wood and solar panels and a smattering of electronics to record how the satellite holds up during its six months in orbit. Data collected will include temperature, the expansion and contraction of the wood as the spacecraft orbits, geomagnetism, and hardware performance onboard. One hope is that the use of wood will reduce the impact of space radiation on electronics.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

Gothamist.

The American publish eduction system continues to degenerate, especially in Blue States.

Don’t send your kid to a government school. It can only end badly.

Gothamist.

Raccoons live among us, and Port Authority officials want to keep them out of the ceilings at LaGuardia Airport.

Washington Examiner.

If Trump really were Hitler, he would be better at giving speeches. He ought to stick to standup.

On the other hand, it’s obvious that this was spontaneous, not scripted as would be usual for a Real Politician, so that’s something.

Newsbusters.

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, as they were waiting for the election workers in the so-called “blue wall” to tell them what they already knew, CNN’s Van Jones blamed sexism and racism for why Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Trump.

“I am thinking about the people who are not a part of anybody’s elite, who are hurting tonight,” he bloviated.

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Of all the trends on Tuesday night that stand out, one of the most remarkable ones is the shift in the black vote to the right. The shift was especially pronounced with black men.

Trump appears to have made significant inroads with black Americans, at least according to some of the preliminary exit-polling data. Several state exit polls show the former president picking up a much larger percentage of the black vote than he did in either 2020 or 2016.

Early exit polls released by CNN and Fox News showed Trump winning about 20% of black men in North Carolina and Georgia, and getting double digits among black voters in general. According to Politico, that’s a significant shift from 2020, “when Trump won 11% of black voters in Georgia and just 7% in North Carolina.”

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In perhaps the least surprising outcome of this election cycle, incumbent Democrat George Gascon got a shellacking Tuesday from his opponent, independent Nathan Hochman, in the race for Los Angeles County district attorney, losing by 62% to 38%.

The writing was on the wall for Gascon, as LA voters not only twice unsuccessfully tried to recall him but 74% of primary voters also voted for candidates other than Gascon in April.

It turns out that voters do indeed want a safe county, unburdened by violent crime. Voters correctly blamed Gascon for the tsunami of crime he unleashed through his pro-criminal policies.

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This year, in the state of Pennsylvania, Trump picked up more Latino votes than in 2020, according to an exit poll conducted by NBC. Four in 10 Hispanics from the state voted for Trump versus three in 10 four years ago.

NBC’s exit polls also showed Trump getting 45% of the Hispanic vote. In 2020, Trump only got 36% of the Hispanic vote, according to Pew Research Center.

“Latino men are breaking for Trump by a 10-point margin, 54% to 44%, in a major reversal from four years ago, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. In 2020, Latino men backed [Joe] Biden over Trump by a 23-point margin, 59% to 36%,” reports NBC News.

Men are just tired of the chickification of American society.

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The potential return of former President Trump to the White House appears to have sparked rage among far-left activists on Tuesday night. With Trump currently leading the electoral count at 214 votes to Harris’s 179, reports are surfacing from Seattle that show Antifa activists have mobilized.

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The censorship and manipulation of political information by Big Tech companies led by “woke” white-collar activists, corporate media, fact-checkers funded by far-left billionaires, a web of leftist-controlled non-profits, and the censorship blob in Washington, DC – all working in unison to combat free speech and control public narratives is at its worst: election interference.

The New Neo.

I’ve long felt that, as the title of this post says, Obama was the turning point – not to some hoped-for racial reconciliation, but to a divisive leftist dominance in US politics.

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Prior to Obama, presidents cared to a great extent what the people wanted, and tended to respond to public opinion if only because they thought the people might vote them out, but sometimes also because they thought that was their job. After the election of Obama, who was the first truly leftist president and the first Alinskyite president, the MSM became totally taken over by propaganda rather than partially, and the president became deceptive about his goals and methods. The Democratic Party began to veer more strongly and openly to the left as the Overton window moved.

Obama didn’t try to shape his policy to the needs and desires of the American people, but rather to do what he could to further a global rather than a US agenda, and if the people didn’t like it they were just going to have to accept it. That approach has become far more common in Europe as well – or rather, it may have began in Europe and Obama was following their example. In reaction to all of this, both here and abroad, populist movements have sprung up and the left has concentrated on demonizing them as Nazi-esque.

Wikipedia Cites Laughable Sources in Sickening Trump-Fascist-Nazi Comparison

US election 2024: Polls open with Harris-Trump result on a knife edge – live updates (The Guardian)

Who won the day? Harris (Politico)

ABC Calls on GOP to Vote Dem, Floats Cheney as AG for Her ‘Moral Core’

RFK Jr Says Trump Plans To Remove Fluoride From American Drinking Water Doubtful.

How Trump Could Ban Abortion Without Congress (Politico)

A Georgia Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results (ProPublica)

A Key Trump Staffer Was Fired Last Week For Being a White Nationalist (Amanda Moore/Politico)

NYC Equinox Kicks Out Gym Patron Over Trump Shirt

Trump threatens 100 percent tariffs on Mexico, largest U.S. trade partner (Jeff Stein/Washington Post) Also our largest source of illegal immigrants.

A pro-Trump influencer says a Russian agent paid him $100 to post a fake voter fraud video. It wasn’t the first time (CNN)

Trump Announces Dumbest Person You Know Will Lead Missile Defense (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic) The dumbest person I know is Kamala Harris.

The MAGA Propaganda Machine Has Successfully Censored Voices Calling Out its Lies (Renee DiResta/The UnPopulist)

Trump organizer who secretly hosted white-nationalist podcast is fired (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)

JD Vance calls for loving fellow Americans before labeling Harris “trash” (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)

THE END: Trump-Deranged Joy Reid Delivers UNHINGED Opening Editorial

Proud Boys claim they’ll be at polling places as Trump ups violent rhetoric and election fraud claims (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

“They’re very scared”: Migrants anxiously monitor U.S. election, fearing Trump win (CBS News)

Rapid spread of election disinformation stokes alarm (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)

Trump and allies have primed supporters to falsely believe he has no chance of losing (Stephen Fowler/NPR)

It’s Been Four Years. How Ready Are We for ‘Stop the Steal 2.0’? (Kim Wehle/The Bulwark)

Will America become Russia? (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

PBS-Picked Prof Warns of ‘Very Dangerous Rhetoric’ from Trumpian Evangelical Christians

From ‘Clingers’ To ‘Garbage’ – Why The 16 Years Of Vilification?  Because that’s the way they roll.

‘I went to a Trump rally – the curtains are closing on his circus’ (Pablo O’Hana/Metro.co.uk)

CNN’s Kasie Hunt Closes the Campaign with Badly Disguised Kamala Commercial

Harris’s people look confident. The Trump campaign appears panicky: ‘He’s realizing that he could lose’ (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

MAGA outrage over wives voting for Kamala Harris is funny – but it’s also dangerous (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  So is Amanda Marcotte.

How Trump used the ‘red mirage’ in vote counting to deny his 2020 loss (Washington Post)

What happens if Trump tries to overturn another election loss? (Cameron Joseph/Christian Science Monitor)

Nicolle Wallace on Vance calling Harris ‘trash:’ ‘You just effed up’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Oprah Winfrey warns that not voting for Harris could mean never being able to ‘cast a ballot again’ (Washington Examiner)  Certainly if Harris wins.

Literal Neo-Nazi Leader Endorses Trump (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)  What, you expect him to endorse Harris?

ABC Hopes for Harris Wins With ‘Unity & Optimism’ Over ‘Anti-Immigrant,’ ‘Dark’ Trump  He’s not very dark; hasn’t been for, oh, twenty years now.

Trump Campaign Finishes the Election by Taking Revenge on the Media (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)  Good.

Maddow, Reid, Wallace: For Election Night, MSNBC Assembles the ‘Primetime Avengers’!

Google Makes Its Preference Clear, Continues Search Manipulation on Election Day

I’m a Presidential Historian. This Is My Biggest Regret About Trump. (Jon Meacham/New York Times)

Short On Cash After 2016 Election, Trump Secured Secret Loan (Dan Alexander/Forbes)  Dunh– dunh- DUNH……..

Trump campaign denies and revokes journalists’ election night credentials after critical coverage (CNN)  Sauce for the goose….

Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say (Reuters)  Ah, yes, ‘experts’.

Google Explains Why Search for ‘Where Can I Vote for Harris’ Showed a Map While Similar Trump Search Didn’t (Todd Spangler/Variety)  Who would want to vote for Trump?

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Imagine how much more peaceful life would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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Train staff all around Italy walked off the job on Tuesday, November 5th, in a protest over occupational safety following the stabbing of a train conductor by migrants.

According to Italian media reports, 44-year-old Rosario Ventura was attacked by a 21-year-old Egyptian man and a 16-year-old North African girl after they refused to pay for their fare on Monday afternoon.

On a regional train in northern Italy, Ventura was checking the validity of the passengers’ tickets, when a couple of migrants said they had not bought a ticket, and they would not pay for one either.

Imagine how much better life would be if illegal immigrants were immediately send back where they came from.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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I watched this happen twice in Northern Virginia, and I’ve heard it explained before, but this is the first time I’ve seen an expert brief it in a shareable format. And he focuses on Philadelphia, a jurisdiction as shameless as any other. I have been told by Democrats that it is just how business is done. I have been told by Republicans that it would be more harmful to diminish faith in the electoral system than to oppose permanent, systemic voter fraud. Journalists have told me their editor won’t let them, their lawyers won’t let them, or management outright admits the city prosecutors would wage withering lawfare if they did. Factors that have always helped keep “journalism” locked down. It’s part of the “narrative” discipline. The city prosecutors and police objected to me about wasting finite resources needed for the prosecution of violent crimes and gangs on corrupt party operatives and their gang buddies.

 

The American Mind.

A Harris victory looks less likely each day, and thank God for that. While Roger Kimball foresees the final destruction of the old American Constitution at the hands of a totalitarian state led by Harris, I see something more chaotic and potentially worse: a hubristic Harris administration that—mistakenly assuming itself to have the mandate of heaven—tries to be authoritarian and fails, thereby unleashing political chaos.

Just as there have been no adults in the room in the Harris campaign, so too we should expect none in her government. A Harris administration would probably be blissfully unaware of several seismic trends in American political life over the last ten years.

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Presumably as opposed to the home-grown People of Color gangs that already exist….

The Atlantic, Voice of the Crust.

Some liberals insist that they’re not joking this time: They are very scared, and very ready to leave the country if Donald Trump is reelected.

Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

PSA: Go Where You’re Treated Best

ZMan: “Courtrooms are now lotteries due to ideology, which is the definition of corruption.”

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

If you were to ask an American to name a corrupt country, he would most likely pick one from what we used to call the third world. To a great degree, this is how we now define the term “third world”. It simply means corrupt. First world countries have transparency and the rule of law, while third world countries are opaque, and the rules are not always clear to the citizens of those countries. These days it is not unusual to hear Russia or China called third world, for example.

This is one of those legacy ideas from the 20th century that evolved with the times rather than following the Cold War into the history books. As a result, our rulers tend not to think much about the corruption in American society. It is just assumed, as it was in the Cold War, that Western countries are largely free of corruption, mostly due to the honesty of Americans, while the rest of the world is riddled with corruption. It is a form of the old good guy – bad guy view of the world.

The thing is you can quite easily make the case that America is one of the most corrupt countries in the world now. Today is election day and most Americans assume the vote counts will be corrupted with fake votes generated by the people who support things like mail in voting, drop boxes and ballot harvesting. In popular government, voting is the key to its integrity, but in the world’s greatest democracy, most people assume the vote is as corrupt as anything that happens in the third world.

The countries that holds elections, even the ones we still call third world, require voters to cast their vote in person and show that they are a citizen. The burden of proof is on the voter to show they are entitled to vote. In America, this basic safeguard has been corrupted through many schemes like mail-in voting, drop boxes and bans on voters showing their government identification. Anyone who questions the integrity of the vote must prove their case all the way to the Supreme Court.

 

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The death of a squirrel has somehow intruded on the news cycle in the relentless last days of a presidential election.

Last week, the New York state government seized P’Nut the pet squirrel and a pet raccoon named Fred from owners Mark and Daniela Longo in Pine City, New York, in what was reportedly a five-hour raid.

Shortly afterward, the two animals were euthanized.

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Election Day is accompanied by some major voting controversies in battleground states, with lawsuits and investigations looking into alleged voter registration fraud, overseas ballots, and complaints about how some jurisdictions follow election law.

Both Democrats and Republicans brought lawsuits.

Some matters already have been settled. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court sided last week with Virginia by allowing the state to remove the names of 1,600 noncitizens from the voter rolls. And in Pennsylvania, Republicans successfully sued to extend early voting hours.

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Two companies affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party have deals to build battery plants for electric vehicles in Michigan, a battleground state in Tuesday’s presidential election.

The objective of Chinese communists, some political leaders say, is to shatter the U.S. automobile industry.

“Make no mistake, China is seeking to undermine our nation’s economic and national security,” Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate in Michigan’s race for U.S. Senate, said in September in a written statement to The Daily Signal.

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Astonishing.

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She presented herself with a huge smile, her words crisp and her gaze confident as she looked across the high school auditorium of prospective voters. In bedazzled shoes, a bright red dress, and a blonde blowout, she stood assured like a pageant queen.

Friends and family donning T-shirts with the words “Make Education Great Again” sat in the front rows. They were eager to hear Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction, make the case that her lack of experience in public education is just what North Carolina students need.

“I think one of my greatest qualifications is I have no experience in a failing system,” she said in the October 14 debate at a high school in Pinehurst.

Can’t say she’s wrong, although The Intercept, a thinly-disguised Voice of the Crust, suggests that she’s delusional — and even gets in a dig against Trump.

$2.60 Gas in Texas–No One Cares

Gas Is $4.50 in California, a Major Consumer Burden

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The investigation is progressing following the violent brawl that broke out on Monday, November 4th at a station in the Paris suburbs. The fight involved rival gangs who clashed with axes.

There were four victims, aged 16 and 17. Two are in a serious condition and two are slightly injured. The 16-year-old, identified as “of African origin,” was born in Guadeloupe. An axe was found at his home, and he is already known to the police.

This outburst of barbarism comes against a backdrop of rivalry between young people from Roissy-en-Brie and Ozoir-la-Ferrière, rekindled ten days ago by the beating of a young man from Ozoir. This episode led to what looked like an ambush on the morning of the start of the new school year, according to a witness on the train who told Le Parisien that he saw men in black hoods rush into the carriage and prevent the doors from closing by pulling the alarm. According to him, the victims were young people from Roissy, and the assailants knew that they usually travelled in the last carriage of the train. That is where the axe attack took place. “They knew that young people from Roissy got on at the back and were hiding at the beginning of the platform at that level,” explains the witness, who believes that it was a reprisal.

Some policemen have different hypotheses about the cities where the young people come from, but the conclusion is the same for everyone. As the article in Le Parisien points out, the gang war is certainly not over. “I also heard the friends of the injured shouting: ‘By Allah, we’re going to get even! We’re going to kill you,’” added the witness.

France didn’t have gang wars before they started importing thugs from Turd World countries.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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At the Paris Olympic Games, an Algerian boxer made headlines after violently beating one competitor, Italian Angela Carini, and going on to win the women’s welterweight gold medal, amid strong suspicions about ‘her’ real sex. Evidence now released from a medical file proves us, and others right: Imane Khelif is indeed a biological male.

The investigation was conducted by journalist Djaffer Ait Aoudia for Le Correspondant. It indicates that Khelif was allowed to compete for ideological reasons, despite medical evidence and notions of sporting fairness.

The investigative journalist was able to obtain a copy of Imane Khelif’s medical records from two hospitals: the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Paris and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers, where the athlete is monitored by renowned endocrinology specialists.

Navy Matters.

You’ve probably noticed that several of ComNavOps’ fictional stories revolve around the Philippines. This is not by random chance. The strategic value of the Philippines cannot be overstated. The country, along with Taiwan, forms two gigantic ‘forts’ that China must deal with in any war.

From China’s perspective, those two countries act as forward enemy bases that dominate the surrounding seas and impact any operations the Chinese would attempt. Their removal from the strategic equations is imperative. Ideally, China would turn the tables by seizing both countries and using them as forts against any American response.

Taiwan’s seizure (or ‘reunification’ as the Chinese would euphemistically put it) is absolutely mandatory for both strategic and cultural reasons. Wisely or foolishly, China’s leadership has linked themselves to the seizure of Taiwan as a national and cultural imperative. For those reasons, Taiwan will be the first operation in any war.