Sleepwalking into the Night.

 As I said way way back, I'm pretty good at analysing trends and finding structure where other people way not see it.

But my mind is really going crazy at the moment, mainly because there structure is screaming out from everywhere, yet very few people see it.

I see preparations for war everywhere. I see countries squaring up to each other in preparation. The next war will be global. 

Until a couple of months ago. Then the "preparations" took on  a softer, more normalised cadence.

Then last week the news came out that China had launched their hypersonic globe-spanning missile I believe back in August.

It was interesting to see over the past couple of months amateur investigators try and see what object it was that spanned half the globe in minutes, because it had been noticed, it's just that there was no in the amateur community on what it was.

I suspect it took a while for the professional intelligence agencies to confirm the object  as well. 

But Western ships will still sail through the South China Sea with a little more humility and  China will buzz Taiwan airspace with a little more aggression.

The Western Armed forces need to analyse this information and decide on a strategy to counter it. But it looks like war is inevitable. I suspect China will take Taiwan eventually. It just depends how quickly they can weaponise the hypersonic projectile.

But either way, we're all fucked. Because China do not know when to back down. They have the money, they have the technology either stolen from the West or home grown. They are not Iraq or Afghanistan. 

Sadly Western Leaders do not have the nous to deal with China without warfare. They would prefer to square up and see how China compares.  

Instead we should be crippling China financially. We should be extracting the West from the drug of cheap Chinese labour. Trump tried it, but didn't give the real reason: that if we didn't start to starve China of funds, the economic "cold" war would turn into a hot one.