Foreign affairs – The Musings of the Big Red Car

Xi Jinping: “Let’s Go, Brandon!”

Big Red Car — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:12:00 +0000

Last night POTUS Joe Biden and President-for-Life Xi Jinping had a pre-holiday call to chat about their Thanksgiving and Christmas plans and China’s strategy to take over the world and to dominate the United States. In the lead up to the Zoom chat, President Joe Biden was asked if he was looking forward to visiting […]

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The Biden Foreign Policy in Afghanistan, the Fallout

Big Red Car — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:40:36 +0000

I do not intend to discuss or critique the recent events in Afghanistan other than to say that it is clearly not the highpoint of America’s foreign policy which at this instant is entrusted to our current POTUS. When the current POTUS was running for the job, we were assured that one of the mitigating […]

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Peace In The Middle East?

Big Red Car — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:31:27 +0000

English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain came home from a meeting with Hitler in Munich in September 1938 with the triumphant notion that he brought with him “peace for our times” in the form of some nonsensical agreement with a treacherous tyrant, Adolf Hitler. Very few men were able to realize that you cannot make peace […]

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Judgment And Going To War

Big Red Car — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:26:16 +0000

While I recognize that you are engaged in evaluating the debates and probably don’t have time for anything else, I want to slip in a few comments about judgment. What brings this to the fore in my V8 is the matter of President Trump deciding not to strike Iran in retaliation for having downed a […]

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PRC v ROC

Big Red Car — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 22:27:46 +0000

Big Red Car here, thinking of having Chinese food for dinner tonight, which of course brings me to the issue of the PRC (People’s Republic of China, the Communists) v the Republic of China (the democratic capitalists, Taiwan). Taiwan is separated from Mainland China by the Taiwan Strait, 110 miles — not much warning time […]

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The French Yellow Vests — Gilets Jaunes

Big Red Car — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:35:29 +0000

Big Red Car here on a lovely, sunny ATX day. On Earth as it is in Texas, y’all! So, the French are in the midst of some political riots. Because France is a fashion forward country, the identifying rallying call is the chic “yellow vest” — gilets jaunes. Very chic fashion statement. Here is a […]

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Accidental War With Iran

Big Red Car — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 03:09:59 +0000

Big Red Car here on Labor Day thinking about a weird topic – accidental war with Iran. The reason I am thinking about this is a recent threat I have seen in several Middle East periodicals suggesting that Iran will close off the Straits of Hormuz if the US imposes sanctions on the sale of […]

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Sanctions Work – ZTE

Big Red Car — Wed, 16 May 2018 14:52:24 +0000

Sanctions, Big Red Car? How dreary for such a sunny, lovely day in the ATX, yawn! OK, Big Red Car tell me about how sanctions work. Maybe a real world example? Dear reader, let us take up the case of Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment, known as ZTE. They are a maker of inexpensive smartphones and other telecom […]

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North Korea – the Libya Solution

Big Red Car — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:28:09 +0000

The Libya Solution? Really, Big Red Car? Big Red Car here going North Korea on y’all. You know I served in the Republic of Korea in the Army back in the 1970s, so I have always been interested in all things Korea. I used to spend time on the DMZ on my belly studying the […]

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North Korea — Chinese Vassal State?

Big Red Car — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:19:56 +0000

OK, the whole North Korea shtick is getting tiresome. Big Red Car here on a sunny and promising day. Hope it’s nice where you are. Know where it’s not nice? Yeah, North Korea. So, what’s going on with China and the North Koreans? China is the “shot caller” here. That’s the legend. But, what’s going […]

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