Status; New chapter of Ghost Recon

So, I haven't died or anything. Writer's block and real-life stuff have kind of screwed my writing, but I'm getting back on the saddle. New chapter is 6,334 words so far.

My laptop has trouble connecting to WiFi and that's been going on for a while. So I'm writing and posting this from my phone.

Also, I might write a post on what happened last Tuesday night and what happens from there.

Comments

[VunderGuy]

"and real-life stuff..."

I know this is me making an assumption here, but, based on your post concerning NATO made way back and the contents there-in:

MAKE. AMERICA. GREAT. AGAIN.

Also, since I heard Mr. President got the rights already for this slogan in 2020,

KEEP. AMERICA. GREAT.

[TJAW]

4395927
Nah m8, the real-life stuff was work, college and dealing with my mom's cancer. With her passing a month ago I don't have that weight anymore, just the emotional hole that comes with losing a loved one.

I don't like Trump (didn't like Hillary either and I voted for a ticket that was a fucking awful excuse for a pair of candidates and Libertarians, but at least they weren't Greens) but I'm not so far up my own ass I'll oppose everything he does or just take the advice of a biased media. If President Trump gets other NATO members to meet the 2% GDP spending requirements good on him. Hell, I like how he called the President of Taiwan, and anything pro-2A he does is good in my book. But if a NATO nation invokes Article 5 and he says no for any reason I'll be calling for his head.

[VunderGuy]

I'm sorry to hear that.

However, if you think that means I wouldn't be calling for YOUR head and people like you if that NATO country (that will never be attacked by Russia without good reason ever by the way) is an intentionally proactive piece of crap like Turkey and our boys start dying in another hellhole of God’s earth for a bunch of foreign asshole like them, you've got another thing coming, cupcake, sob story or not.

Also... really? NATO? That's the one issue thing you're up in arms about? An outdated (and quite frankly, disgustingly corrupt and inept considering just how many mooch countries haven't been putting in their fair share and haven't reimbursed us for holding it up) organization that currently wouldn't even be able to stop the Russians in time from making it to Berlin even if they were dumb enough to try and invade (they're not by the way, as you know) without immediately going nuclear and that has been a complete and utter failure from defending Europe from the invaders actually driving trucks into people en mass? Really?

Question: what about the Red Chinese? What about that country without a GDP the size of Italy and a GDP far more closely resembling that of the US (due to them buying up shit EVERYWHERE) that is actually, unmistakably, on a path of aggressive expansion in the South and East China seas, huh? What about that country with the largest pool of manpower on the world that, if we were still using melee weapons as the primary instrument of battle, would have overrun so many countries your head would spin, huh? What about that country that literally built an artificial island in the middle of the busiest trading routes in the world and has been acting like they own international waters and like jerks so hard that even Communist Vietnam thinks they're a-holes, huh? Where's the version of NATO for that, please? Where's the South East Asian Treaty Organization that's going to keep the Red Chinese from taking out Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and etc, huh?

I'll give you this: the Ruskies, are a threat (in fact, any foreign power is a threat, but the Ivans more than most, I'll grant). HOWEVER, they pale in comparison to the real, actual, big time baddy on the global stage that is Red China, a place so evil, so terrible beyond anything the Ruskies have ever done in modern times, that they literally have roving death squads that drive through major cities looking for political dissidents, making them 'disappear,' and then harvesting their organs on the black market.

So, you know what? If America does decide to get the hell out of NATO, if the loser Eurotrash in that organization don't start paying up and reimbursing us in some adequate fashion for what we put in, if NATO doesn't start costing the American taxpayer less, if NATO can't be restructured in such a way that it actually addresses the real, largely diminished threat of Russia post the collapse of the Soviet Union, if it can't be reorganized into actually addressing the hordes of mujaheddin occupying Europe WELL ahead of any plans of the Ivans... let those stuffy, Euro-peons rot in hell for all I care and leave them to use all that cheddar for their ridiculous social programs and social engineering into defending THEMSELVES from any and all major threats of which Russia, believe me, shouldn't be so high on their priorities. Let them see if they can survive on a continent that doesn't have Uncle Sam wasting his dime for nothing but scorn, derision, ungratefulness, and obscene corruption and ungratefulness for the protection he offers at the expense of his own folks across the pond.

*Sigh*
Rant over.

[TJAW]

4396914
I meant that disregarding a legitimate invocation of Article 5 was ONE of the things that would cause me to go to a protest. When Turkey shot down that jet in 2015, if it had turned out that they had fired unjustly and Russia retaliated, then that would not be a legitimate invocation of A5. Granted, Erdogan and Putin are on decent terms now, so that seems unlikely.

And believe me when I say I've got no love for the PRC. I loathe Putin and vatniks are fucking insufferable but barring a major miscalculation I don't see war as likely so long as NATO remains in play to prevent more bullshit irridentist plays like eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

As for why SEATO doesn't exist, it does under that name, or at least it did until '77. And many of the mutual defense agreements are still valid. A new one would be nice but every East and Southeast Asian nation seems to have a beef with every other nation in that area, so the US is doing double duty there smoothing over racial tensions and carrying the region militarily, though like Europe they're waking up to the belligerent irridentist power on their doorstep.

However, most of Europe is over the whole WW2 thing while everyone in Asia is still on about Japanese war crimes like they happened yesterday. And Japan is eternally fucked because there's the pacifist mood dominating, their nationalists have a tendency to deny war crimes, they have to constantly apologize and any suggestions maybe they should stop at some point trigger a shitfit from every other nation in the region (except Taiwan, even though the Nationalists who took over the island did 90% of the fighting in the Chinese theater). But so much trade goes through the region we have to deal with that level of dysfunctional bullshit that makes Europe seem alright.

And to top it all off, China's acting like a cartoon villain building those fucking islands.