Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "China would take a 'hammering' in potential war over Taiwan and could annexe it instead | Tim Cross" video.

Sun Yat-Sen's Kuomintang unity government. More commonly remembered as Chaing Kai-Shek's nationalist Party.
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@danielgarner1959 As George Bernard Shaw once said, "two people divided by a common language".
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Indeed. Outer Manchuria is an easier target to take than Taiwan.
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Typical of the French. They cut and run at the first sign of trouble.
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@hgv1883 Taiwan doesn't have to go through the strait. They can bypass it.
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@bgandjsco1 And what if Americans decide to go over there like many did in Ukraine? Are you going to stop them?
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@QwadLuzr "Si vis pacem, para bellum; If you want peace, arm for war," -Flavius Vegetius Renatus. That is a truism that has remained constant since antiquity and will remain so until eternity.
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@ajaykumarsingh702 When it comes to amphibious operations, it favors the defenders. Taiwan isn't trying to cross the strait.
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@TheSandkastenverbot It isn't just WW2. Dien Bien Phu. The French were embarrassingly pathetic in Vietnam showing how much of a paper Tiger they truly were. Getting back to WW2, there is NO excuse for the French leaving the Ardennes undefended. Guderian was able to flank around the French because he had successfully marched a unit through the area in WW1. Further, the French put so much stock in the Maginot line, that ley left the low countries woefully undefended. The Dyle River Plan was spectacularly bad in that they overcommitted with no reserve.
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@praetoriancorps Nukes are overblown. And to use them in Taiwan is self-defeating for both sides.
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@praetoriancorps You clearly don't understand nuclear doctrine, particularly the how, when where, and why factors. Both examples are NOT justifiable employments of weapons, not even on a tactical level. Nukes first and foremost are an area denial weapon. Ideally, they also "salt the soil" as it were.
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@SterileNeutrino The US Navy is specifically designed to project power across the Pacific. It is how we won WW2 against the Japanese.
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Seems like a counter-intelligence operation much like Operation: Mincemeat.
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@dpelpal F-35s? No, they can't carry enough ordinance. A-10 Warthogs? Absolutely!
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@ajaykumarsingh702 And yet on the ground more and more they are self-identifying as Taiwanese. It is only among the over 50 population that has a majority who consider themselves Chinese.
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@Balenza345 I guess you have not heard of mutually assure destruction? If a NATO capital is nuked, you can bet that Moscow will become a radioactive crater.
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There are really only three people who have a good understanding of the Dragon known as China: Michael Pilsbury, Gordon Chang, and Richard Murdock. All three have played as team Gold in Pentagon War games, and much like Erich Marcks in "The Longest Day", they ALWAYS win.
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