Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Worse Than the Fukushima, the CCP Has a Bigger Conspiracy" video.

  1. If China starts a shooting war, they are done! They import most of their energy and mineral inputs. They also import lots of food, and with their disastrous flooding of prime agricultural land recently, could experience food shortages this year or early next. Don't forget, China is a processing point for many materials, but not an originator of the raw inputs. This is primarily because they ignore environmental concerns and can thus process the materials cheaply. They are utterly dependent on the world trade system developed by the US since WWII. Cutting off access to external inputs to China would not even take much in naval power. Frankly, there are choke points that could be managed by a few destroyers. These are also in reach of land-based forces. If China starts a war, or overtly supports the Russians in Ukraine, to paraphrase Peter Zeihan, they deindustrialize within months and soon after that experience mass starvation. Xi is doing this to try to retain power. As with many dictators, when things are going bad at home it is useful to divert attention through the creation of external threats. Mao did this in the 1960s by invading India. Xi is in a similar situation.
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