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a bit of WW2: USA defend china against Japan.....

Having responded to disparate Chinese requests for specific arms, General Marshall moved quickly to ensure tighter coordination between Chinese requirements and U.S. production plans. He established the American Military Mission to China (AMMISCA) on 3 July 1941 under Brig. Gen. John Magruder, an officer with previous China experience.

Rather than simply serve as a conduit for Nationalist requests for supplies, Marshall directed Magruder to advise the Chinese on their military needs and ensure a closer match between those needs and the capabilities of U.S. defense production.

Still, China had a lower priority for supplies than the United States and its European Allies. Even the relatively meager amount of materiel required by the Chinese proved difficult to deliver. Japanese control of the China coast meant that all supplies had to reach inland China through either Burma or French Indochina. British reluctance to provoke Japan limited shipments through Hong Kong, and French acquiescence to Japanese occupation of northern Indochina in September 1940 left Rangoon, Burma, the closest friendly port to Nationalist-held areas in China. Having crossed nearly 14,000 miles by sea, lend-lease aid next went by rail to Lashio in northern Burma, and then 715 miles by truck over the Burma Road to Kunming, China. Over this precarious route only a trickle of supplies arrived at Kunming. Burma's loss to Japan's armies in late May 1942 cut this one remaining overland resupply route. The closest port for Chiang was now in India, and henceforth all supplies earmarked for China had to travel by air over the Himalayas, the Hump.

Despite these hardships, the U.S. government established a military theater of operations in China soon after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor brought America into the war. President Roosevelt appointed Army Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell head of the U.S. China-Burma-India theater, and at the combined level, Generalissimo Chiang appointed him chief of staff of the combined forces in the theater. Arriving in China in early March, Stilwell found himself in a military and political quagmire.

From the beginning of his tenure, Stilwell was dismayed by the overall Chinese war effort. Many officers had noted that only a small minority of Nationalist divisions were personally loyal to Chiang. Most of the others reserved their allegiance for their own commanders, whose subordination to Nationalist authority was problematic. Moreover, most commanders viewed their units as political as well as military resources and fought accordingly. Their intention was to conserve manpower and equipment rather than defeat the Japanese. Not surprisingly, U.S. observers considered the Nationalist Army excessively defensive-minded, and were further dismayed by Chiang's insistence that several of his best units deploy to northwestern China to blockade the Chinese Communist forces in Yenan. Although both Nationalists and Communists had pledged a united front against Japan, this precarious truce broke down in mid-1941. Civil war, it often seemed, was more likely than joint military action.

Stilwell's immediate problem was the Japanese threat to China's supply lines in Burma. Chiang deployed nine Chinese divisions from Yunnan Province, including several of his top units, equipped with the first lend-lease supplies, to defend Burma. But even Stilwell's personal leadership of that force could not stanch the Japanese tide. Stilwell and the Chinese force retreated to India where he laid plans for retraining the Chinese Army for sustained offensive operations to retake Burma and take the offensive in China itself.

https://www.history.army.mil/brochures/72-38/72-38.htm#

 

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WW3: an american dream....

Article V of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty states the United States' "ironclad" commitment to defend all of Japan, including the Senkaku Islands and other territories, said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III.

The Senkaku Islands, claimed by China, are in the East China Sea, about 43 miles northeast of Taiwan. 

Austin provided remarks today, hosting an enhanced honor cordon and meeting, welcoming Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara to the Pentagon.

"Our force posture is becoming more versatile, more mobile and more resilient. And we're also investing in stronger ties with our friends across the region," he said, including South Korea. 

Japan, South Korea and the U.S. are dedicated to mutual defense, including exercising combined forces under a multiyear, trilateral framework, sharing real-time missile warning data and strengthening secure lines of communication, Austin said. 

The United States is also encouraged to see Japan working more closely with allies like Australia, he said, noting that in exercises last month, F-35A fighter jets from Australia operated in Japan within days of F-35s from Japan flying over Australia.

Austin congratulated Kihara on his appointment to defense minister last month.

Kihara said he looks forward to strengthening Japan's defense capabilities to deter aggression in the region. 

Japan appreciates America's ironclad commitment to defend Japan and will work in close cooperation on strengthening the alliance, Kihara said.

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3548692/austin-says-us-committed-to-defending-japan-including-senkaku-islands/

 

THE AMERICAN EMPIRE ALWAYS PLAYS WITH FIRE.... IT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE FOR CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, TAIWAN, INDOCHINA, ETC TO MAKE A UNIFIED ASIA HUB OF FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION, BUT THE AMERICAN EMPIRE WON'T HAVE A BAR OF THIS: IT PLAYS ON THE DIVISIONS OF THE PAST AND MANIPULATES HATRED IN REVERSE TO THAT OF 80 YEARS AGO — IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE US' NEFARIOUS INFLUENCE OVER THE RIMLAND (SEE THE HEARTLAND) IN ITS CONTROL OF THE WORLD. 

AUSTRALIA HAS BEEN BAMBOOZLED BY THE CHEAP TRICK, LIKE A KID THAT ACCEPTS A LOLLY FROM A PEDOPHILE... IT'S TIME FOR AUSTRALIA TO TELL THE AMERICANS TO STOP THE CRAP... 

SAME WITH UKRAINE. THE AMERICAN EMPIRE SUPPORTS THE NAZI REGIME OF KIEV, NOT TO "PROMOTE DEMOCRACY" BUT TO MAINTAIN A (NATO) FOOTHOLD ON THE EDGE OF THE HEARTLAND. WE KNOW (HOPEFULLY) THAT UKRAINE (WESTERN GALICIA) WILL EVENTUALLY GIVE UP DESPITE THE FUTILE SUPPORT FROM THE AMERICAN EMPIRE AND ITS LACKEYS. HOW MANY MORE DEAD SOLDIERS, CAN KIEV AFFORD IN ITS QUEST TO CAPTURE RUSSIAN TERRITORIES (*)?. SEE BELOW:

 

 

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MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

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manchuria.....

FIRST:

Elon Musk has offered to donate $1 billion to Wikipedia if the online encyclopedia renames itself ‘D*ckipedia’ for at least a year, while accusing the community-edited website of being biased.

Posting on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, Musk claimed that “Wikipedia is inherently hierarchical and therefore subject to the biases of higher ranking editors, independent of their merits.”

The billionaire contrasted Wikipedia’s approach to that of the new Community Notes feature he introduced on X, arguing there was a “fundamental difference.”

The mechanism allows users to add clarifications to posts that many people find controversial, but requires consensus by “people with historically different points of view,” he stated.

“Crucially, even I, as the controlling shareholder of the company, cannot change the outcome of a Note,” Musk added.

 

SECOND:

Wikipedia is not for sale.A personal appeal from Jimmy Wales

Please don't scroll past this 1-minute read. I'm sorry to interrupt, but it's Tuesday, 24 October, and time will soon run out to help us in today's short fundraiser. I ask you to reflect on the number of times you visited Wikipedia in the past year, the value you got from it, and whether you're able to give $3 to the Wikimedia Foundation. If you can, please join the 2% of readers who give. If everyone reading this right now gave just $3, we'd hit our goal in a couple of hours.

It is hard to know what to trust online these days. Disinformation and scammers are everywhere. Wikipedia is different: not perfect, but also not here to make a profit or to push a particular perspective. It is written by everyone, together. Wikipedia is something we all share, like a library or a public park. We are passionate about our model because we want everyone to have equal access to high-quality information – something that is becoming harder and harder to find online.

 

THIRD:

The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded Manchuria on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden Incident.[2] At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Their occupation lasted until the success of the Soviet Unionand Mongolia with the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in mid-August 1945, towards the end of the Second World War.

The South Manchuria Railway Zone and the Korean Peninsula had been under the control of the Japanese Empire since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. Japan's ongoing industrialization and militarization ensured their growing dependence on oil and metal imports from the US.[3] The US sanctions which prevented trade with the United States (which had occupied the Philippines around the same time) resulted in Japan furthering its expansion in the territory of China and Southeast Asia.[4] The invasion of Manchuria, or the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7 July 1937, are sometimes cited as alternative starting dates for World War II, in contrast with the more commonly accepted date of September 1, 1939.[5]

With the invasion having attracted great international attention, the League of Nations produced the Lytton Commission (headed by British politician Victor Bulwer-Lytton) to evaluate the situation, with the organization delivering its findings in October 1932. Its findings and recommendations that the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo not be recognized and the return of Manchuria to Chinese sovereignty prompted the Japanese government to withdraw from the League entirely.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria

 

 

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GUSNOTE: JAPAN HAS NOT CHANGED ITS SPOTS.... ONLY THE USA HAVE CHANGED ALLEGIANCES.... FOURTH, WIKIPEDIA IS THE LAZY HISTORIAN'S, SAY GUS, FOSSICKING HOLE.... 

 

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