Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Fortress Guam: How/Why is US military turning the island into a Pacific bastion" video.

@TheAhmedRabia All that bluster is really meant for the domestic audience, trying to inflate their strength. In reality, Russia knows America’s nukes actually work, and China knows America can ensure they arrive wherever it desires.
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The Communist takeover of Mainland China was an unfortunate side effect of America yet again trending isolationist and disengaging from the world, just like it had leading into WW1 and 2, as well as after the Cold War until 9/11. There’s a reason US forces get deployed worldwide, often at the tolerance if not invitation of host nations to overseas bases who fear the alternative of American absence.
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Republicans won’t allow that, or any new state as the two Senators added will be consistently left-leaning. Hence why Puerto Rico isn’t admitted either (along with all its debts to tax-avoiding speculators). Turns out that around the world American conservatism isn’t that popular.
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⁠NAFTA was superseded by USMCA, that ‘great trade deal’ Trump was so proud to negotiate and sign personally. It’s colloquially still called NAFTA because the parties are the same, and it doesn’t change names in Canada or Mexico (aka CUSMA/ACEUM and T-MEC)
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All those American military adventures are peanuts compared to the absolutely costly nuclear-tipped industrial warfare which US forward deployments deter… at the tolerance if not invitation of host nations to all those overseas bases where they fear more the consequences of America’s absence.
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@YSKWatch It doesn’t have to be a country to get US support. Notice all the subnational resistance organizations it’s supplied over the past decades.
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Mainly because the Soviets actively threatened more militarized map changes, especially after its obvious support for the Communist takeover of China and the Korean War.
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China likes to censor its critics by trying to get videos age-restricted.
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Unlike the jungles of Vietnam, there’s nowhere in the open ocean for casual combatants to ambush and regroup in, and no space to support independent reporters who can enhance their image. It’s all air and sea battles, which favors the side with superior technology and practical experience with it (both of which America has far more of).
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The real reason these territories don’t become states is because of Republicans, who don’t want to degrade its social conservative base by adding two more consistently left-leaning Senators. Turns out that American traditionalism isn’t that popular globally, really only Alberta might pull right if Canada lets them go south.
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@anonymous.marshall Well yeah, are you too young to remember 9/11?
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⁠ Right, if America has the balls to scare off civilian ships and take out China’s port facilities, the Mainland will starve for affordable food and fuel. No amount of overland alternatives can sufficiently feed all of China, especially when the vast majority of its people and industries are on the coast on the other side of the country.
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Does China have enough working hypersonic missiles? Those things are extremely expensive, not something to waste on easily repaired airstrips or redeployable radar sets.
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Liability? It’s America’s bastion for the Western Pacific. It doesn’t need to be profitable to be productive, just look at any Interstate freeway.
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@QuantumAscension1 Burnt rocket fuel is still pretty toxic. Also all the diesel fumes, truck tracks, foot stomping, constant lights, and deafening (to wildlife) noise endemic to any operation.
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@Greg_call America’s Pacific territories are not covered under NATO responsibilities though. Only Alaska might count being connected to a continent with a beach on the Atlantic.
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