Devoted followers of the reptiles will have noted that the war on the homeless in the lizard Oz is proceeding nicely.
The dog botherer was at it yesterday, as might be expected of a minor war criminal who contributed much to homelessness in Iraq.
There's nothing like giving the homeless a swift kick in the gonads to keep the reptiles happy, and we can expect more until the wretches are safely out of sight and mind ...
How dare they flaunt their poverty and homelessness in front of everyone, when they could be in a cardboard box in some suburb far from Surry Hills ...
But this is a small-scale domestic war, a distraction, a minor pleasure for those armed with steel-plated boots, or at least chairman Rupert's generous funding.
What we need is a real war, and luckily Dr Strangelove was on high repeat...
Yes, the war of words is cranking up, and naturally that got the bromancer wildly excited, and put him on a war footing, as he rushed to get dinkum Aussie boots on the ground ...
Of course, of course, the first thing to do if war erupts is for Australia to rush in from day one, put boots on the ground and get involved.
It worked so tremendously well in Vietnam, and the pond is still celebrating the way that the first Korean war worked out so well and sorted things out permanently and successfully for the peninsula (and the rellies who returned from that war spoke ever so fondly about what they'd experienced).
Take it away, war monger bromancer ...
It didn't take long for the pond to realise that it had been dudded in the usual bromancer way.
After all the talk of heroics and treaty obligations and the first rush of enthusiasm, saucy doubts and fears began to intrude, along with the hope that somehow Beijing might sort it all out ...
Or else ...
As the pond read on, the bromancer began to turn more and more nervous Nelly, with the sort of jelly spine made fashionable by that stylish old jellyback Malware ...
The skill, the art of the reptile, is to turn "extremely unlikely" into "plausibly likely" or "possibly possible", and so to induce panic, fear and hysteria, and with a bit of luck, turn anxious readers into addled paranoid Bob Ellis clones ... so that, chewing on amphetamines, they might confiscate a girl and her car, and drive forthwith to the Blue Mountains ...
The danger of miscalculation might be very great, but thanks in no small part to the Murdochians and Fox, the miscalculation has already been done ...
Well there's more details of Moir here, as he and the pond pursue life after Fairfax, but for now it's back to the bromancer as he retreats even further from the field of combat...
All that to arrive at the conclusion that hellfire isn't the solution?
Well there's one thing the pond is certain about.
If it drove up to a garage with steam pouring out of the engine, it'd be a lucky day if the bromancer was the mechanic on duty, so he could look at the radiator and sagely observe, "there's something wrong with the engine."
The pond has an alternative diagnosis.
Fox and the Murdochians helped get the planet in this (and the climate science) fix ... and now they expect the pond to worry about the strategic credibility of the US being severely eroded?
Clear the B59 - or the A32 if that's easier - because the pond is in a convoy to Lithgow ...
And now to revert to the looming domestic war ,so the pond can close with a cartoon and a postcard...
The actual postcard? That was in the tweet too ...
Oh yes, it's war alright ... and the mud and vile filth in the trenches is just like what grandpappy experienced in the Somme ... as another reptile war flourishes, thanks be unto little Johnny, the onion muncher and the reptiles of Oz ...
"Tow the line" indeed - but then, to be expected from someone who spells the guy's name as 'Rowlands'
ReplyDeleteFuckwit, I say.
Bromancer: "One American source told me that there was an increasing view the Chinese might engineer a coup in Pyongyang or move in to take control of North Korea directly."
ReplyDeleteThey really do live in one of the totally different other multiverses, don't they. It just doesn't seem to dawn on any of them that if it will be for Australia just like it was last time, it might also be for Russian and (mainly) China like it was last time - in short, defending North Korea with arms and weapons (and they have a lot of effective weapons, lots more than NK) rather than coming to America's aid with a "coup" or a military takeover.
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy “Intelligence Assessments” that with no change in information manage to reassess the available data and arrive at the conclusion that there is no reason to believe that this country ‘could not maybe’ have weapons of mass destruction. We have been here before…
“Similarly, an effective pre-emptive strike is a massive operation that would target all of North Korea’s nuclear program, its missile systems and the huge batteries of cave-protected artillery it keeps just over the border from Seoul. That is a vast task requiring hundreds of missiles and plane sorties from the US.”
A vast task?
In 1976 it required a convoy of 23 American and South Korean vehicles with two eight man teams of military engineers to chop down a tree.
These were backed up by two 30 man security platoons armed with pistols and axe handles. In addition, a 64-man South Korean Special Forces company accompanied them, armed with clubs and trained in Tae Kwon Do.
A U.S. Infantry company in 20 utility helicopters and seven Cobra attack helicopters circled behind them.
Behind these helicopters, B-52 Stratofortresses, which some described as "nuclear ready" came from Guam escorted by U.S. F-4 Phantom IIs from Kunsan Air Base and South Korean F-5 and F-86 fighters were visible flying across the sky at high altitude. At Taegu Air Base, F-111 bombers of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing out of Mountain Home Air Force Base, were stationed, and F-4 Phantoms C and D from the 18th TFW Kadena Air Base and Clark Air Base were also deployed. The aircraft carrier USS Midway task force had also been moved to a station just offshore.
In addition, 12,000 additional troops were ordered to Korea, including 1,800 Marines from Okinawa.[6] During the operation, nuclear-capable strategic bombers circled over the JSA.
To. Chop. Down. One. Tree.
https://timeline.com/north-korea-poplar-tree-bcee4d72332f
DiddyWrote
Sounds like it might have been a Korean offshoot of Yggdrasil, DW, in disguise as a Normandy Poplar (how on Earth did one of them get into the Korean DMZ ?).
DeleteBut I gotta say in this case I think the NKs were right - you just can't have a bunch of guys wandering into the DMZ just to chop down a tree.
But I wonder if the SK+USA 'expedition' described in the link wasn't at least partially instrumental in upping the ante as the NKs saw (and see) things. If the enemy can mount 'fire and fury' then you have to be able to respond likewise, yes ?
If these were vaguely normal times, I'd dismiss the whole thing as posturing before another round of conference table give-and-take-and-peace-prizes-all-round. But with the Old Bloated Pumpkin Man having his tiny doll hands on the wheel, I'm not so sure any more. I've started listening to cheery old songs from the sixties to blank out the horror...the horror...
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