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Apocalypse Blog: Northern Invasion

12/11/2020

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            One of the difficulties I had in writing the third book in The Gathering series was figuring out a way for China to invade the United States. Loading troops onto naval ships and military aircraft is not feasible because China does not have enough ships and plans to land an effective invasion force. It doesn’t help that a traditional invasion strategy would be apparent as soon as the Chinese launched their ships towards the United States. Our naval and air forces would easily stop the invasion before any of the troops could reach our shores.
            Whatever creative solution I found to put a Chinese invasion force on American soil had to have a chance of succeeding and it had to make sense. It seems that all I had to do was to look towards Canada for the perfect situation. Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau invited the Chinese military to train with the Canadian Armed Forces, on Canadian soil.



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            The articles I’ve read doesn’t give a number of troops that were expected to participate, but whatever size of the force, it places them right on our border. No need to go through the elaborate plan that I devised for my story. And it doesn’t need to be a full-sized army. It only needs to be enough troops to seize a dozen, or so, key locations along the West Coast.
            Portland immediately comes to mind. Civil unrest in that city and calls to defund the police make it a tempting target for a Chinese invasion. Many citizens of Portland may even welcome a communist regime controlling the city.
            Crazy idea? Maybe. But not any crazier than the country being shut down, for months, by the pandemic. Not any crazier than the idea of defunding the police. And not any crazier than an election that has been heavily influenced by China and the U.S. companies being manipulated by China.
            Canada. C’mon, man. I thought you were our ally?


You can read more about this at Epoch Times. Here's the link. 

https://bit.ly/3oIH48F

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