Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "China’s Junk Aircraft Carrier, World’s Highest Accident Rate,Won’t Fly Jets,Lowest True Combat Power" video.

  1. India collaborating with the CCP? That statement alone brings into question everything said in the video. The CCP has laid claim to Indian territory and stationed large numbers of troops there. India is fortifying the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as an unsinkable aircraft carrier the be able to interdict Chinese shipping through the Straits of Malacca. This applies to commercial as well as military ships. India participates in the Quad specifically to counter China. Finally, India has been beefing up its own navy, including aircraft carriers, mostly to counter China.
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  2.  @jfverboom7973  I have seen that as well. Good point in this current discussion. Control of one's own river system is very important, especially in this age when we are all building dams to control and exploit them. Another example is the Nile. Its sources are in different countries not even bordering Egypt which are, as with the Chinese, building dams and potentially disrupting it. Then you have the Helmand River critical to Iran that starts in Afghanistan, which is also building a dam. I mention all these not to show off my extensive foreign affairs interest and knowledge, but to give a background for what might well come next, driven by these river issues. As with many international situations it is natural resources that often drive events. The traditional solution to these problems has been conflict and conquest. Then came the US led, rules-based world order after WWII. The UN was going to resolve all these issues. Well, now that hasn't worked, what happens? We are on the cusp of going back to old order. As China breaks down, I think there might be a need for the affected countries to secure their river sources. I personally don't believe the Chinese military is even half as good as their Russian counterpart. and just look at what is happening to Russia in Ukraine. As the last piece of the strategic puzzle, air power (F-16s are arriving in Ukraine about now) is put in place, Ukraine will win. Russia at least has recent combat experience (lots of it actually). China has none. Some of the states adversely affected by this river controversy do have the experience and are better equipped than Ukraine was at the beginning of the war. I have even heard that the US might sell F-16s to Vietnam (that would be a hoot). The only wildcard is nukes.
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