Israel is the 21st Century Dien Bien Phu

 The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a trap set up by the superior French colonial forces in Vietnam to try to defeat the weaker Viet Minh forces in 1954. The Viet Minh then were fighting the French using guerilla tactics, hit and run, fight at night and sleep in the day in the deep jungle. The French found it difficult to chase the Viet Minh in the deep jungle. So they set up a trap to lure the Viet Minh in an all out battle in the open. Dien Bien Phu was in the centre of a valley surrounded by mountains from a distance. 

The French strategy was to use Dien Bien Phu as a bait, sitting in the centre of a plain, believing that an attack by the Viet Minh would end up in a slaughter. The French had superior weapons, big guns, artillery, cannon, tanks etc waiting for the Viet Minh. The French believed that the Viet Minh did not have the weapons with enough range to hit them from the safety of the mountains and jungles. The only way to fight the French was to launch an attack by charging into Dien Bien Phu. The French just simply sat it out, just waiting for the Viet Minh to come after them and to be slaughtered.

What the French did not bargain for was that the Russians and Chinese could supply them with heavy weapons, artillery etc that could hit the French position without the French being able to hit them. The French became sitting ducks, being hammered by the Viet Minh surrounding them and thoroughly beaten. A grand plan based on arrogance and the belief in their own superiority was turned around to defeat the French forces by a supposedly poorly equipped Viet Minh force.

Israel is today like Dien Bien Phu, sitting comfortably in the midst of Arab and Muslim states, believing in its own superiority and arrogance, that it can hit the Arabs and Muslims and the latter unable to hit back at Israel. The last 30 days of missile and drone attacks by Iran said it all. Iran is fully capable of hitting every corner of Israel and Israel could not do very much against an Iran almost the size of India and strategically protected by mountain ranges. 

The full impact on Israel as the Dien Bien Phu is when all the Arab and Muslim states start to send all their missiles and drones into Israel. When it happens, Israel will be pummeled to debris, worse than the Gaza. The range and destructiveness of modern weapons are many times more powerful than in the days of Dien Bien Phu. Nothing can save Israel. Israel cannot last half a day on such an all out attack. There will be no Israel to talk about. There will also be no Israelis around. The reach of the weapons of all the Arab and Muslim states would be more than enough to submerge Israel like the Great Flood, but this time it would not be water but fire power.

Diego Garcia can also be Dien Bien Phu with modern weapons. Modern weapons have changed the equation of military tactics and strategies.

Japan looking for dumping grounds for its ICE and hybrid cars

 Asia’s EVolution: How Mongolia became a dumping ground for Japan’s hybrid electric vehicles

Over the decade, Mongolia has been flooded with cheap, end-of-life hybrid electric vehicles (EVs) from Japan. The final instalment of a CNA series on Asia’s EVs looks at how the country could be turning into a green technology dumping ground....

Mongolia is awash with cheap, end-of-life hybrids imported from Japan once they have served their purposes on tamer urban streets.

They can be found in every corner: from the jammed avenues of Ulaanbaatar to the depths of the Gobi Desert.... In 2025, exporter listings show a ten-year-old Prius selling for roughly US$3,000-US$8,000 at source. CNA

The end of the road for ICE and hybrid cars as EVs are now the preferred choice when oil is hitting more than US$100 per barrel. The Japanese automobile industry, the main bread winner of Japan, is dying. Same goes to the American and European car industries. Japan is doing its best to dump whatever available in Mongolia. Now it is used hybrid. Next it will be new ICE cars, Toyota, Honda, Nissan etc etc, when they cannot be sold anywhere else. Japan cannot dump the hybrid in Africa as the cost of transportation will be more than the selling cost of a used car. China is also dumping all its manufactured ICE cars in Africa for a song. Soon China will not be making any ICE cars once the old stocks have been exported. It still makes sense in Africa for ICE cars as many part did not have charging stations for EVs. But this window is closing with Chinese companies putting up a network of charging stations across Africa.

Another big graveyard for unsaleable ICE cars is America. There are billions of them, old and new and finding no buyers. Most would be sold as scraps or junk for their steel.  The drawback, no more steel mill in America and these scraps will just pile up in huge dump sites with no where to go.

The death of the ICE industry and the shutting off the source of this lucrative revenue from America, Japan and Europe will take its toll with grave consequences to their economies.

Americans won by saving a pilot. Iran won by shooting down at least 9 aircraft

Trump is boasting about the success regarding the rescue of a crew from an F15 jet shot down over Iran. It is claimed that Israel is involved and the CIA is also involved. There is now a propaganda war between USA and Iran about what constitutes success and the price being paid.

According to Iran, four USA planes were shot down during this mission, two Blackhawk helicopters and two others. The USA denied such losses as would be expected. Amidst such denials, what is glaring is the fact that there was an admission later, that a plane or planes were stuck and had to be destroyed, how many has not been specified. When denial is impossible with evidence going to be exposed, this self-destruct mantra must be the best alternative. Same as claiming friendly fire that brought down two other planes in Kuwait, three F18s. Nothing to do with Iran of course. Ahem, friendly fire cannot be used inside Iran of course, so a different mantra must be invented in order not to lose face. And if the loss of the four planes is true, it was truly a costly mission to rescue one man.

This was the same scenario when they tried to rescue some important personnel at the underground bunker of a Steel plant in Eastern Ukraine and Russia took out about five rescue helicopters, with the rescue mission unable to succeed. It was a heavy price to pay.


Anonymous

Americans erect blockades, China bypasses blockades

There are now in fact three main crude oil pipelines serving China. From the North is the Power of Siberia from Russia, feeding China with about 30 million tons capacity a year. To the West runs the China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 30 million tons a year. To the South runs the China Myanmar crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 22 million tons a year. These are energy supplies, small it may be, created to avoid all the choke points, which China is seriously working out its strategy.

The blockade strategy by the USA had been around for decades, created solely for the purpose of suffocating China. China saw and understood the evil agenda of the USA and had all along been doing its best to overcome this National Security issue.

China's heavy investments into high speed rails, migrating its dependence on ICE vehicles to EVs with huge incentives being trotted out has been very successful to say the least. It was not a scheme created to end in failure. This has saved China from heavy reliance on imported fossil fuel, which has plateaued off over the last few years. Before that, the growth of imported fossil fuel was exponential, being needed to feed China's manufacturing appetite. Analysts are expecting China's reliance on crude oil to even decline in the coming years. This is possible with China's huge investments in renewables and its own expansion in the oil extraction sector at home.


Anonymous

Tests for the brain dead, unthinking and the stupid

 Get the fucking Strait open, you crazy bastards ...they would be "living in hell" if they did not comply....We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.

These are the words of civilised leaders from civilised country. And 77 million supporters are very proud of these leaders. Whatever you feel about these words defines what you are. Whether you are brain dead, unthinking or stupid, you should know better. Only you know what you are. No need to tell anyone.

Below is a 10 min clip that speaks for itself. It is also a test for brain dead, unthinking and stupidity. View it and find out who you are. 'Abby Martin Went To Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think'.