Red White Blue is the New Red Coat

2024-08-26 · Ho Chanh Nghia

Originally published on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/red-white-blue-new-coat-khanh-pham-k4rvc/

Red White Blue is the New Red Coat

The Red Coats of the Revolutionary War was a semi-professional force, trained only for conventional European warfare. The British Army was relatively small in stature by European standards, but supposedly superior to the inexperienced militia forces of the Continental Army initially available to the Patriots. In the beginning of American Revolution, the British army was about a total of 48,000 men composed of around 39,000 infantry units, 7,000 cavalry units, and 2,500 artillery men. These numbers looked large enough, but America was different than Europe and the Red Coats suffered from in-effective recruiting methods. The vast countryside, trackless wilderness settlements, non-existent roads to little villages made it difficult to effectively control the entire colonial area.

https://totallyhistory.com/red-coats/

As a Vietnamese, one always end up studying how the valor of the Vietnamese survived the Chinese imperial force. The raging Mogol hordes. The French occupation. The US occupation. There is nothing mystical about it. just statistics working in ways that people have not figured out.

The winner lost because they lacked what it took to win. It could usually be sum up in one line. Know yourself, know your enemy, 100 battles 100 victories.

While the British statistically have all the advantages, but those statistics are limited by the minds at the time. God or nature had a larger set of statistics. Now that years have gone by, and people have plenty of time to review the two side of history, they have a bit more insights into the dynamics at the time.

What happened between the British and the Americans were always a repeat for the past, present and future failed conquest. I say failed conquest, because sometimes the conqueror do win. Ask the American Indians about that. Or go visit the Inca or Aztec.

I venture into other domains at my own risk obviously. Jordan Peterson is correct when he say that it is much safer to keep silent. When you go public with anything the world can be very cruel. Nasty people come out of the woods to attack you. Any mistakes you make would become you. You would be reduced to any single mistake you make. It is a hard decision to speak up.

in any case. It had been decided. as Robert E Lee said. When the white brothers banded together to destroy my life and harm my family and children, the decision was made for me by white people. I regard them all as dog meat at this point, as Genghis Khan would say.

These conquests America has been making are historical to say the least. All military around the world understand and acknowledge that the American army is the mightiest of them all. So why do people in flip-flop go challenge the mightiest of goliaths? Well, to put it in simple term a 5 years old may comprehend. The decision was made for them by the goliath.

So now the Red/White/Blue is the new Red Coat. Would it fail, I think it is likely. When I left the service as an emissary of the white brothers, they were struggling to hold the Titanic together. The bank account is empty, the production quantity is shit, and the quality is shittier. To fix the problem of lack of competitiveness, they would go sabotage the opponent. It should be said, as many still do not understand. The path towards greatness is not sabotaging others, but self-development. Grow up.

I can tell you Americans are still confused about what is Chinese and what is not Chinese. This should have been breaking the internet with meme, but people in western world have not yet acclimated to the presence of Chinese looking good on TV screens.

In 11 years of my services from 2002-2013, I can tell you who did what and who did not do what. Each year, 1,000 people would receive a performance report, and the USAir Force would reward them appropriately for their great work. What if I tell you those reports were all shits? How does a military commander know which reports are shit and which reports are Shinola?

How does the US president know which patriot is an actual patriot, and which patriot is an actual Russian plant? Israel Plant? China Plant? Iran Plant? French Plant? Korean Plant? Saudi Plant?

How can you determine if the military, the commander-in-chief, and the country are in proper readiness? Do they know? or do they judge from reports? There is an ocean of differences between knowing and reading about something.

If I open up the performance report for my work between 2002-2013, I can easily tell which one is full of lies, and which one is valid. But none of the commanders of AFTAC would be able to do that. None of them like of Robert Gates would be able to do that task. the US president, known as the commander in Chief would not know that. What they know is their brown nose boot lickers are telling them everything is fine.

As the red coats moonwalk into WW3, there are some adjustments. Adjustments to reality are one of the most difficult things to do. Titanic has been suck for the same readiness fallacy. Ukraine and other ancient empires have lay in ruins due to that false readiness.

Carthage was the empire that could have been Rome but allowed Rome to displace it. I am sure they had many political scientists at court sharing insight about how to keep Hannibal in check so that he could not replace Carthage. If anything could be true in my insight, the people who defeated Hannibal were his family–Carthage. Those nobles, those Congressmen, continues to say we are the mightiest. We will win. Oh, that was Netanyahu that said we will win. But they all clapped (minus one).

Here is an example of the fallacy of readiness. How a king dies. with an innocent decision. Doing a deadlift, and ending up dead with a lift. The King of Wu killed him self picking up a heavy object and could not handle it.

https://thehistorianshut.com/2017/12/31/the-bizarre-end-to-the-reign-of-the-chinese-king-wu-of-qin/#google_vignette

This new Red Coat is doing something similar. The world is just not ready for a white king. It will never see a white king on the throne again. But who knows, white men could prove the world wrong. that a white king will once again ascend to the iron throne. and a new Iron curtain will fall upon humanity.

The other incident was the battle between goujian and his conqueror.

https://fridayeveryday.com/goujian-defeated-soldier-waited-years-for-revenge/

For years the King of Yue served as a servant under his occupier. Much worse than the King of Finland sitting in Moscow answering to Russia. Years later, the King of Yue removed his opponent from existence. His defeated soldiers harbor vengeance for years. When the opportunity came to take up arms again, they were willing, ready and bloodthirsty.

There is a favorite phrase I have seen from watching too many Chinese historical fiction. A gentleman can wait 10 years to carry out his revenge, and it would not be too late.

If that is any warning, then Japan, the British, and all the people who have sinned against China should be waiting for that day.

When I shared my thirst for vengeance with an old Vietnamese friend of mine, he remarked that Vietnamese men are like that. They will keep their thirst for revenge for life. I used to have a wife who wanted a US green card, who pulled the domestic violence trick on me after being in the US for a few years. We hugged and both cried. I said I will probably not foregive this. and she cried admitting also that I will never forgive anyone.

I have studied revenge a great deal, and more than 10 years and perhaps more than 20 years. My legal guardian gave me a four-hour beating because I refused to admit I stole a dollar from her restaurant. I no longer expected to hire someone to arrest her for drugs she did not sell, but that was always the plan. I was about 6 that year, and this year I am 46. So if I am loose on math calculation, I can say I spent 40 years meditating about revenge.

The USA has made a lot of children wish they could do something about all the regime changes. and WW3 would be an opportune time to stir up all the invisible David in flip-flops waiting for a shot at the Goliath. If one misses, there are millions of David waiting for a shot.

Sad facts.

Knowing the problem and solution does not necessarily mean you can do anything about it. The Chinese have a very deep saying. Which will be easily misunderstood.

Vietnamese : Thiên Thời Địa Lợi Nhân Hòa

Mandarin: 天時地利人和

English: Right Time, Right Place, Right People

I forced Gemini to give me something more poetic and here it is.

“When the sky smiles, the earth yields, and hearts unite”

2024 appears to be that time, that place where all the right people converge. People who were invisible before. People who were voiceless before. People without nuclear weapons, now with nuclear weapons conjured out of thin air.

Whatever the color of the coats, all will turn red by the end of 2024.

Sad facts.

Guan Yu : a historical figure turned mythical So much so, that Vietnamese still worship him as the god of justice. He does not hold a scale but holds a very heavy sword. He’s not blind, but has great eyesight.

https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/08/06/guan-yu-celebrated-for-his-virtue.html

Guan Yu (關羽, 160 – 220 AD) was a well-known warrior in Chinese history. Known for his bravery and loyalty, he helped his blood-oath brother to the throne in the Three Kingdoms era (200 – 280 AD).

During his life and after his death, kings and emperors bestowed many titles on him, such as the semi-religious “Lord Guan.”

When Guan Yu died, all three kingdoms honored him with a tomb. It was said that Guan Yu had “his head pillowed in Luoyang, his body resting in Danyang, and his soul returned to his hometown.” He was not only honored by the imperial court; the common people also respected him, and warriors especially worshiped him.

Guan Yu was neither the smartest nor the best warrior of his own time, let alone throughout the 5,000 years of Chinese history. How did he gain such powerful and lasting reverence?

Integrity, and the courage to have integrity. In times of deceit, he’s often uninvited for his candor and straight talk. but in times of chaos, everyone seeks out their Guan Yu.

I never thought that the Iranians would have something similar called the Supreme Leader. I also don’t know that much about that area of the world. Europe and the Middle East remain a black spot on the map. I would be sad if Europe and the Middle East were erased from the map, but it would not hurt me as much as some other folks.

I also thought Germany would forever be prevented from causing more wars of conquest. How did those people and the people around them explain how Germany was not in a position to help launch WW3? What would be required of Germany to never cause another world war? Ship all the men and women into separate corners of the world. No two Germans can ever be allowed to reproduce. Such radical ideas. but it is not radical if you recall how the Americans did it against the black slaves and the natives. It would be called Standard Operating Procedure at this point.