Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "" video.

  1. That's assuming China's industries stay fully operational, which even if the Mainland isn't attacked directly there will still be a collapse of affordable food and fuel as civilian ships are scared off by the crossfire. Overland alternatives supplying vital resources will be a trickle compared to what came by sea, and soon enough the PLA will see plenty of action... in China suppressing domestic unrest over lack of food and meaningful employment that doesn't involve years of aviation or combat maritime experience.
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  2. I'm more partial to the rough-and-tumble Fulcrum design
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  3. America regularly does actually adversarial combat exercises, often deliberately nerfing its best equipment until they figure out how handicapped it has to be for an even match. Unlike the predetermined parades that the PLA performs in its "war games". That's on top of all the bona fide experience that America and quite a number of its allies bring to the simulated fight.
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  4. Meanwhile the AIM-174 is already in service, and it starts with a proven track record of live kills as a Standard SAM against small maneuvering anti-ship missiles, and its potency only improves when launched while aloft.
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  5. ​ @dyong888 That is until the crossfire in the SCS scares off civilian ships carrying affordable food and fuel to China, and all that industry is left idle. Overland alternatives have nowhere near the capacity and cost effectiveness of what comes by sea.
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  6. That's what aspiring hegemons want you to believe. In reality a "multi-polar world" just means multiple fault lines for militarized conflict, much like what we had going into the World Wars. There's a reason that Pax Romana, Pax Mongolica, and Pax Americana are named after the single power who oversaw security and the peaceable trade it allowed for like a third of humanity at the time.
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  7. Sure because underestimating the Soviet MiG-25 somehow led to the F-15, Soviet ABM capabilities led to the ABM Treaty, and Soviet dominance across the Communist world led to the Vietnam War and America's Cold War worldview in general 🙄
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