Colonel Grant Newsham, United States Marine Corps retired, has done us all the favor of imagining a war with China over Taiwan.

When China attacks, the victims are already in the United States.

We started with Baltimore, there are a number of cities across America, the Rust Belt, destroyed, wrecked by the Chinese plan.

However, we're now coming to a battle plan.

It'll never happen, you say, especially if you've got a lot of money in the market.

Well, there are reasons that you think to yourself.

One is we have economic interests and that will restrain us.

Grant, does that hold up? No, it doesn't, and I don't think it ever has. One is we have economic interests and that will restrain us.

Grant, does that hold up?

No, it doesn't, and I don't think it ever has.

But that's been the belief is that, well, they were so intertwined economically, nobody would dare to go to war.

Well, they were saying this in the 1930s as well.

But also, once again, listen to what Xi Jinping and the Chinese communists are saying,

is that they will absorb a lot of punishment in order to sort of rejuvenate the nation.

And Xi has made some very favorable references to what China did in the Korean War,

getting in, yes, suffering, but it was worth it.

And he's told his citizens to get ready to pour hardships, get ready to eat grass, is the expression

they used. It's been sanctions proofing the economy so that China can absorb the economic

penalties that would be applied if it goes after Taiwan.

But also the entire strategy years ago was to make China completely self-sufficient economically.

And the so-called Made in China 2025 policy that he was promoting a while back until people wised up to it, and he changed the name.

That is intended to, as I say, get China so that it can withstand any pressure that may be applied if it does make a move militarily.

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