China Is Nearly Done Building a Taiwan Invasion Fleet
Autocracy,Asia,Beijing,China,Democracy,Foreign Policy,National Defense,Russia,Taiwan,Ukraine War,World,Xi Jinping
The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I prohibited Germany from creating an air force. So, before plunging the world into the cataclysm of World War II, Adolph Hitler engaged in a massive, clandestine, determined, effort to build Germany’s air force, the Luftwaffe, under the guise of building out Germany’s civil airline, Lufthansa.
By 1935, Hitler revealed his new air arm to the world. The allied victors of World War I protested, but could do nothing. Within five years, the Nazis had intimidated Austria to give in to the Anschluss and had walked into Czechoslovakia. Then, they rolled up rapid conquests over Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France.
By 1940, Hitler and his Nazis controlled much of continental Europe and were preparing to invade Britain.
Just as Hitler used the guise of Lufthansa to build out his air force, Xi Jinping is using China’s massive merchant ship building facilities to rapidly build out the Peoples’ Liberation Army Navy, or “PLAN.” It has gone largely unacknowledged by the Western media.
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