Closing Time In Tokyo

That was an odd Olympics, but it had some great moments. The Summer of Italy may be my favorite capped (so far!) by the men's photo finish gold in the 4x100 relay.

Comments

[clarice]

Just here to beat Jane who stole Steyn from me.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Lol!

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Have we heard from OL? Does he have the skinny on the Obama bash?

I don't remember any previous president having such a high profile party. The Narcissist in Chief strikes again.

Joe is probably at his beach house saying to himself "why didn't I get an invite?".

[Jack Lillywhite]

My Olympic moment was watching the kid from India win gold in the Javelin.

First medal ever in track and field.

[Full disclose, I threw Javelin, Shot and Discus in high school and only Shot in university]. Too slow for any track disciplines.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Matt,

I thought OL was Nantucket not the Vineyard.

[henry]

Odumbo dance vid.

https://twitter.com/trumpjew2/status/1424380660106530819?s=21

[Dave (in MA)]

(Dukes County (MV) and Nantucket are both CDC-designated "High Risk" counties for Wu Flu.

[Jane]

Matt,

The MV bash was huge. My friend lives next door to him, but given the size of Bambi’s estate he’s about a mile away. The night before he had a huge cocktail party at Winnetu. Last night guests were arriving by helicopter on a grass strip airport about 200 yards from my friend’s house. They closed off his road, and had secret service and local police barricading it.

I’m sure it was a bore.

[clarice]

So if everyone at the bash gets Covid, Biden and his party officials will just lockdown the rest of us.

[Jane]

Clarice,

Steyn is still mine!

[clarice]

follow anonamom's advice on zinc:https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events

[Melinda]

That's a LOT of lobbying cash.

Lobbyists Spent $426 million to Reap an Infrastructure Bonanza

Nearly 2,000 companies and other groups have engaged with Washington officials about infrastructure to shape the final deal.

The Washington Post comments Massive Economic Packages Unleash Lobbying Bonanza in Washington.

https://mishtalk.com/economics/lobbyists-spent-426-million-to-reap-an-infrastructure-bonanza

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I think you're right, Jack.

[Neo]

Jon Lindbergh, the other son of legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh, has died aged 88.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Our parliament of whores may be the ugliest in the world but they still aint cheap.

[Melinda]

Clawbacks are a bitch.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. said at the start of the year it was looking into registered representatives who applied for coronavirus-relief loans for possible violations.

https://www.investmentnews.com/3-brokers-in-hot-water-over-sketchy-covid-19-loan-applications-209670

[Narciso]

um wilbur,

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2021/aug/07/olympics-germany-modern-pentathlon-rule-changes-kim-raisner-video

[Narciso]

make it simple, practically no one who could have used the money, see dr j, got a hold of it, most everybody who didn't need it got it,

[Melinda]

Yes, almost like it was bait for fraudsters...

[Melinda]

I gotta run out. I'm out of Micheladas and a tomahawk snack.

Doctor Yield Curve
@Dr_Yield_Curve

https://twitter.com/Dr_Yield_Curve/status/1424468784157315073

[Narciso]

is that like modelo beer

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/lead-stories-editor-tried-to-bankrupt-conservative-news/

[Neo]

Butthurt Socialists Dems

vs

The Honorable and Patriot Governor Greg Abbott, et al

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/08/runaway-texas-democrats-sue-greg-abbott-causing-anxiety-distress-embarassment/

[Narciso]

yes that's coyote flying into the cliff behavior,

[Jane]

That’s awful Narc.

[Narciso]

maybe he should look at his home state of lousiana where the demolition bill, is taking down the main highway through the big easy,

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/08/sen-cassidy-desantis-mask-mandate-ban-is-wrong-he-is-messing-with-public-health/

[Narciso]

i'm not calling it infrastructure, it's graft and demolition,

[Narciso]

ok

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/08/07/multiculturalist-liberals-hate-hungary-for-being-a-pro-borders-traditional-values-success-orban/

[Jack Lillywhite]

The son of a business associate.competed in Modern Penthalon in the Olympics. Told me it was the most competitive for all events he has ever seen.

[jim nj]

https://hudsoncountyview.com/2-buildings-imploded-at-bayonnes-former-mot-to-make-way-for-new-ups-distribution-center/

Military Ocean Terminal Bayonne is no more.

[jim nj]

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/over-200-taliban-terrorists-killed-in-airstrikes-in-afghanistan-2505356

Over 200 Taliban Terrorists Killed In Airstrikes In Afghanistan
The Taliban gathering was targeted by a B-52 bomber in Shebergan city of Jawzjan province today evening at 6:30 pm.

It didn't effect the overall outcome.

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/taliban-takes-second-provincial-capital.php

The Taliban took control of its second provincial capital today. Shibirghan, the capital of the northern province of Jawzjan and the home of warlord Marshall Abdul Rashid Dostum, fell to the Taliban.

Dostum and his followers abandoned Shibirghan today and fled to the district of Khwaja Dako, TOLONews reported. Khwaja Dako hosts the city’s airport, and is the only district in Jawzjan under government control. The other 10 districts in Jawzjan are under Taliban control, according to an ongoing assessment of the security situation in Afghanistan by FDD’s Long War Journal.

[henry]

Cant admit “get woke, go broke”… so blame variants.

@marketwatch

‘The Suicide Squad’ disappoints in opening weekend, as delta variant deters moviegoers

[Narciso]

'that's what they are going with'

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Mel, I have switched over to micheladas as well.

Olympics viewership was down 50%. people are still largely at home. NBC had it on half a dozen channels and they still were down from a down Olympics in Brazil.

There's going to be billions in make-up ads over the next year or two.

I wonder if management is even considering how the woke a-holes damaged their brand. USOC, NBC, NBA, all of them have been taking huge hits. The women's national soccer team is a laughingstock.

Hint; Antifas and BLM and all CRT all the time wokesters don't watch sports.

[Davod]

Headline appearing at The Liberty Daily:
" Sen. Rand Paul: “It’s Time for Us to Resist, They Can’t Arrest All of Us”

In Sydney, the Feds put 400 soldiers on the street to enforce the rules.

[Narciso]

I don't credit dostum for being civil, but when this warlord is vamoosing it's not encouraging,

[Davod]

Posted on JOM2:
"Unread post by Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki » Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:14 pm

"Trending in politics at twitter was #obamavariant."

[Davod]

My neighbor must have been watching my squirrels. Because yesterday, she gave me a mug with a squirrel on it saying "Excuse me, your birdfeeder is empty."

[Barbara]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/fauci-expects-flood-of-covid-vaccine-mandates-after-fda-approval_3938900.html

Fauci said over the weekend that he hopes CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccines will be fully approved by federal drug regulators in “the next few weeks,” noting in another interview that he believes a “flood” of vaccine mandates will be handed down after that.

With full Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, it’s likely that more institutions and businesses will begin to issue vaccine mandates. Currently, vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson are being distributed under FDA emergency use authorization.

This guy is insane! The Chinese have five vaccines and none of them are effective. Why bring Chinese vaccines into America or anywhere else for that matter? So now you can't have a job, go to school or the grocery store unless you get a vaccine brewed up by the country that caused and spread the pandemic at the direction of the person who brought the virus to their lab in Wuhan.

[Melinda]

The clip of the specific Micheladas at my 4:35 post was the kicker, Matt. That and the Tomahawk “ snack”. Wowsa!

[MissMarple2]

Kroger's digital deal list this week included that fake meat, which I will NOT buy. I'd rather have peanut butter and jelly and a glass of milk.

If I remember it's also connected to Bill Gates, who I wish would shut up and go into seclusion.

[MissMarple2]

I spent today sacking up old clothing, shoes, and household goods I haven't used in years. All going to Goodwill tomorrow.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/dixie-wildfire-becomes-largest-active-fire-us-charing-nearly-half-million-acres

(The Dixie wildfire is in California.)

[Neo]

Stunning news from Iceland - among the world’s most vaccinated countries - today.

Facing a huge new #Covid outbreak that translates into ~100,000 new US cases a day, the country’s chief epidemiologist now says natural infection is the only way to reach herd immunity…
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1424409919713943552

[Davod]

MM2. Yes, but Dixie gives someone the opportunity to complain about the south.

[MissMarple2]

Dr. Fauci chastises those attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: You’re going to get to do that in the future, but let's get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on." pic.twitter.com/ifb6tVdMgg

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 8, 2021

Video of 2 of the dumbest and most evil people in public life carry on about Sturgis, while ignoring Lollapalooza, Obama's birthday party, and the hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated, maskless illegals pouring over the southern border. Video at the link.

[Pinandpuller]

The BLT never felt the need to add any more letters to its sobriquet because it’s a well adjusted sandwich whose daddy loved it.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Michael Smith
·
America has changed.

Hard to argue that it has not - and not in a good way.

For the 65 years from about 1900 to 1965, progressive ideology pushed its way into American life, ratcheting itself forward through the ebb and flow of American politics.

While its public influence appeared to oscillate from strong to weak, the remarkable effectiveness of its adherents is evident in the enshrinement of its advances in American law, rendering them almost beyond challenge or change. No matter the political climate, these progressive policies (mostly entitlements) have never been reformed. Even as progressives fell out of power, progressive policies remained intact, forming a foundation for the next wave of progressivism to build upon.

If you do not see this, please name for me one major government entitlement program that has ever been reduced or eliminated.

That progressivism now seems to be on a downhill run and picking up momentum should not come as a surprise.

All that came before has set the stage for what now comes. In the years since about 1965, the changes in America desired by progressives have become easier and easier and have met less and less resistance. It is simply inconceivable that Bill Clinton or even the commie loving Jimmy Carter before him could have “normalized” relationships with communist Cuba without being met with true opposition as Obama did, or Biden's blatant assists for Russia and Iran - and that is not even considering the tyrannical approach to this pandemic.

There can be little doubt that the indoctrination of children in government schools dominated by progressive ideology is a cause, but another is the incrementalism that has been adopted by those who purportedly oppose progressivism.

For example, let’s stipulate that Ronald Reagan is the benchmark conservative and rate him at 100. Assuming that we pragmatically select a candidate in the next presidential election cycle who is 80% as conservative as Reagan, if the cycle continues of accepting a candidate that is 80% as conservative as the last one, within five election cycles (20 years), we have a candidate that is only roughly 33% as conservative as Reagan.

Look, I have been a proponent of such "pragmatism", but that pragmatism must have a limit. If we do not get to a point where there is a limit on how much conservativism we are willing to give up, we will continue to get left-leaning "Republicans" like Mitt Romney.

Democrats never accept anything less than pure progressive insanity in their candidates, as evidenced by AOC, Cori Bush and the rest of the "Squad".

The fact remains that the only things standing between progressivism and its ultimate goal of a communist government in America are the people. Far from being an outlandish idea, our duty to protect America from destruction from within is defined in the Declaration of Independence:

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

That’s no crazy right-wing, Tea Party zealot speaking – that was Thomas Jefferson. The fact that I could write the same thing today and be called an "extremist" or "domestic terrorist" is evidence of how much America has changed.

[Pinandpuller]

Remember when it wasn’t safe for President Lincoln to travel thru Baltimore? Times have changed.

Now it isn’t safe for anybody to travel thru Baltimore.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Just poking my head in to let you know that Gov. Greg Abbot will be attending our Republican Club Dinner on the 17th!!! We are so looking so forward to seeing . The room hold aprox 300 people so we will be up and close.

Hope all of you are doing well. I keep up with most of you but never fet time wfite back as much as I'd like.

Blessings to you all!!!

[clarice]

Hi, TLG!

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Hi Clarice!!!

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Michael Smith
·
Irrational and emotional actions are common in children. Unfortunately, they are also common in immature adult children as well.

You can never allow a intransigent or incorrigible child to continue abhorrent behavior or that behavior will become the norm.

It is time for rational people to tell the adult children among us to sit down and shut up. There must be consequences for their behavior or we will just get more of it. The left knows this, except they dole out punishment for rationality (conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey was just suspended from Twitter by stating the fact that there are biological males and biological females, no matter what transgendered people think).

Unless we want to remain in a perpetual state of tantrums in a toy store, it is time to start correcting a generation that has never heard the word "no".

No, not associating with you is not a form of racism- it is because you are an ass.

No, I don't care if a statue offends you, you aren't removing it.

No, diversity is not strength.

No, non-citizens do not have a right to come to America illegally.

No, your lack of success is a matter of performance, not racism.

No, I will not call a man a woman or use idiotic pronouns.

No, communist systems have never been successful.

No, we will not continue this ridiculous charade.

It is over, we will not allow you to destroy this nation.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Hi Stephanie!

[Melinda]

Hi, TLG!

[Dave (in MA)]

Every one of these elitist assholes demands your eight-year-old be masked-up when he returns to school this fall https://t.co/XCCGqfQ9vP

— Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) August 9, 2021

[Narciso]

hey tlg how have you been,

[Narciso]

fauci is a cyborg, or something grown in a tank by the aerotech corporation, (SAB reference) change my mind,

[Narciso]

it's like we're stuck in this tng or dr who moebius loop where they say the same thing over and over again, maybe it's a failed positronic processor,

[Barbara]

Narciso @11:40 pm,

Fauci – an Outer Limits lab disaster. I think you've nailed it.

[Narciso]

there was that episode where perry king discovered he was an alien, and he was pushing a bill that was terraforming the earth into his home planet

[Narciso]

how do you say dial to eleven, in swedish

https://summit.news/2021/08/06/swedish-professor-says-5-shots-of-covid-vaccine-may-be-necessary/

[Pinandpuller]

OK, Judge Napolitano is a predatory queah, but does he sleep with a pillow over his face?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/in-south-dakota-the-road-signs-lead-to-the-wall

Salena Zito visits Wall drug, and talks about its history and why it embodies the American spirit.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/samsung-leader-jay-y-lee-qualifies-parole-justice-ministry-2021-08-09/

Samsung Vice Chair qualifies for parole after conviction for bribery and serving a year in prison.

This is a curious story. Never once is WHO he bribed mentioned.

[MissMarple2]

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/biden-linked-group-backed-audits/

The Center for American Progress, led by John Podesta and whose board at the time included Stacy Abrams,

[Narciso]

I think its an aide called ahn cho sei, they made a mountain out a molehill, because reasons

[Narciso]

Hmm

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210719/Iodine-derivative-kills-SARS-CoV-2-within-90-sec.aspx?__twitter_impression=true

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/05/exclusive-kash-patel-launches-legal-offense-trust-to-fight-establishment-media-big-tech/

Richard Grenell supports this, but I do not like that the money goes through Win Red.

[Narciso]

Very nebulous

https://www.economist.com/business/2017/01/21/lee-jae-yong-dodges-arrest-on-charges-of-bribery

[Narciso]

They decided ultimately to suspend the sentence after they got their woman, now they are stuck with moon jae in

[Narciso]

Really now
https://mobile.twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1424512669747343362

[Narciso]

Ugh

https://mobile.twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1424503561870839809

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

Having spent 2 weeks in hospitals for observation on my heart, I can tell you this:

Fanone is a liar. IF he had a heart attack, there is no way that any competent hospital would allow him to get agitated by watching TV news, call up CNN, and rant at them. Buzzers and beepers would be going off right and left.

[MissMarple2]

Here's my freshman senator:

Senator Mike Braun
@SenatorBraun
·
11m
Anyone who has ever run something like a small business knows what we’re doing here is not sustainable.

Most of the folks in Congress have never run a lemonade stand.

[Narciso]

No one has been charged for this assault, that i can see, 'crisis actor' is a proper tag for him.

[Narciso]

How about the 48 cops len, murdered in the summer of love

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-capitol-riot-republican-compassion-20210809-quhsoyl2ffexnhlfzsq24ucm7q-story.html#nt=pf-double%20chain~hp-top-stories~flex%20feature~curated~8opn-insurrection-0809-630a~QUHSOYL2FFEXNHLFZSQ24UCM7Q~1~1~9~12~art%20yes

[henry]

Greens are such idiots.

Bjorn Lomborg
@BjornLomborg

Will electric cars save the world? No. Even if all nations achieved all of their ambitious EV targets, emissions will be reduced by about 0.1%. If this is continued throughout the rest of the century, temperatures will be reduced by 0.002°C by 2100.

https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1424285512588742662

[Narciso]

Oh

https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1424671623827935238

[Melinda]

Leon Puissegur
@leonpui_
Has anyone questioned the Covid tests?

The article will open your eyes!

Can we trust the Covid tests are do they carry the same falsehoods as Fauci?

thewashingtonstandard.com/covid-tests-re…

Steve Ferguson @lsferguson
The common cold is a Coronavirus. Is this what these faulty tests are picking up? Is this why there is so many "cases"?

https://twitter.com/leonpui_/status/1424704748868022272

[MissMarple2]

This is a doctor speaking before the Mt. Vernon, Indiana school board. You need to listen to it twice if you have trouble keeping up with a fast talker, but it is well worth listening to. Six-minute video at the link.

[MissMarple2]

Oops. Here's the link:

More COVID facts the CDC & Biden Administration doesn't want you to hear. pic.twitter.com/WRaLZtqC0f

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) August 9, 2021

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Hi Melinda

[Melinda]

Ah, Muh Covid And Muh Climate because the audits are starting to roll in::

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/seth-keshel-releases-analysis-five-pennsylvania-counties-enough-fraudulent-ballots-flip-state-trump/

Also, here:

Seth Keshel, [08.08.21 19:37]

[ File : PENNSYLVANIA VOTER ROLL ANALYSIS.pdf ]

*PENNSYLVANIA*

Here is the promised voter registration rolls with analysis on FIVE COUNTIES holding an estimated 92,000 extra Biden votes (AKA, enough to flip the state!)

*ERIE

*LUZERNE

*FRANKLIN

*MONTGOMERY

*YORK

This is only useful if you guys do something locally with it, demand action, and pressure the living hell out of the PA RINO coalition to have these explained. Every word in this document is understandable and we have the rolls for when they ask.

https://t.me/RealSKeshel/831

[henry]

Going hair on fire because a statistical model doesn't match reality is very Hoft. It is also very prog / left.

[Narciso]

Oh

https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1424427144021610498

[Melinda]

Reading the Exec Summary....

blob:https://web.telegram.org/e5aa0d67-b938-4b9c-bd09-f152bbbd4e73

[Narciso]

its how they do everything and the possums wave their tales, and grub for more cash, so they can wag their tails most vigorously,

[Narciso]

its how they do everything and the possums wave their tales, and grub for more cash, so they can wag their tails most vigorously,

[Narciso]

they clap like seals on meth, for captain oveur and whoever pulls his strings

https://humanevents.com/2021/08/06/americas-newest-endless-war-the-coronavirus/

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Michael Smith

I don't believe Covid-19 is a bioweapon.

But I do think it was a precursor to one.

I think it was on its way to being weaponized before some Chinese researcher breached containment and let it out before they were finished with it.

But isn't it interesting how our ruling elite uses it as if it was one?

You have Fauci condemning the Sturgis motorcycle rally while zipping his trap about Obama's birthday party. You have a NYT reporter saying Obama's superspreader event was "different" because the attendees were "sophisticated" and "vaccinated". It is as if King Barack's god-like "lightworker" powers cast an invisible dome of protection over his estate the virus could not penetrate.

Before the event, the media sycophants were falling all over themselves to explain why Obama concentrating 700 people in a tent at his Martha's Vineyard oceanside estate was just peachy keen and no problem at all.

Only dirty, unwashed people with dirt under their fingernails, people who didn't go to the right schools, don't have a certain level of wealth and political power and hold the wrong beliefs can get sick. They are just too stupid to make their own decisions about their own health.

They are using the existence of this virus, one that is real but seemingly far less deadly than firs thought, as a mechanism of control over this nation. It isn't the virus that is the issue, it is the REACTION to the virus that is the problem. As it was with President Trump, he was never the issue, the Democrats' reaction to him was what caused the problems.
Don't listen to what these people say, just pay attention to what they do. This is more than just sickening, irritating and offensive, it shows you who they are.

These people do not believe they are better than you, they KNOW it.

And they mean to rule - by any means necessary.

[Narciso]

they rend their shirts over st floyd while cities burn, and statues are toppled,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The world is not going insane.
It has always been insane because people are basically insane. At least enough of them are to create our default worldly insanity.
We have been spoiled by the West's and particularly the US's departure from that default state.
The aberration is liberty and the aberration is rationality. We are aberrations from humanity. The grasping totalitarian progs are mankind's default position.
That is also why war is the default human experience. Progs make war on their neighbors if their neighbors refuse to submit to their grasping totalitarianism.
The aberrant refuse to believe the above over and over until it is almost too late and so box themselves into a corner where they must fight, die or submit despite history showing them very clearly that's what will occur. So in a way the aberrant are just as guilty of insane magical thinking as the progs.
So here we are.

[Narciso]

the army can't be called out, when the locusts are swarming, but a ragtag bunch of delta's mess up the tapestries, and it's eleventy, for the purposes of this exercise, michael byrd is neidermeyer,

[Jack Lillywhite]

That Medico at MM2's 0840 post is well worth hearing and spreading around to others. Think about the anti-Fauci using common sense backed up by science not the other way around.

[henry]

supply uor own lube.

Real Time Economics
@WSJecon

Senate Democrats released an outline of the $3.5 trillion antipoverty and climate plan they hope to approve this fall, further detailing their ambitions for the major legislative effort that they plan to approve without Republican support on.wsj.com/3xy5E07

[Narciso]

there's too much gravel in that lube, henry, it chafes,

[henry]

because states have no rights, or something.

CNBC @CNBC
2m

Norwegian Cruise can require Florida passengers to show proof of vaccination, federal judge rules cnb.cx/3fJB11u

[clarice]

NYT reporter's ridiculous defense of the Obama effrontery:https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/466686/

[Momto2]

Here is a link to MM's 8:40 without going through Twitter.

Dr Dan Stock MD - Functional Family Medicine, specializing in immunology and inflammation regulation in Noblesville, IN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtvQ47fohqc

[Melinda]

Most enlightening:

https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/08/09/one-maritime-perspective-on-u-s-military-losing-the-next-fight-to-china-part-ii/