Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "China Prepares to Strike: Will Trump Stand in the Way? | @VisualPolitikEN" video.

  1. Extreme poverty is mostly resolved, it's just the "extreme" dollar-a-day qualifier the Party conveniently omits when they say they eliminated (effective) "poverty".
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  2. ​ @j4genius961 ​ 1) Bigger ships scale up in durability. The ex-USS America proved surprisingly difficult to sink with no defenses or crew aboard, imagine how much harder it'll be when there's active damage control (which the USN has recent live experience from getting mined in the Gulf and running into seamounts). That's granted they can be found in the vast ocean, with buddy sensor assets sending vital position updates all the way to the target not getting blinded or destroyed. 2) Most of those "friends" have no effect to the military effectiveness of the PLA. The US by contrast has plenty of friendly ports and airbases to call at. 3) America has plenty of experience supporting its movements under fire, having had its trucks and helicopters ambushed so often. The last time the PLA tried to supply its troops in hostile territory was in Vietnam... and they got into deep trouble against local militias (not even the regular forces who were still getting redeployed from Cambodia), hence why they turned tail so abruptly after "opening the road to Hanoi".
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  3. Until suddenly you're unable to export American agriculture to Asia because the PRC closed off the Western Pacific to goods from "unfriendly" nations.
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  4. It's concentrated, not fragile. The USN has wayy more experience giving and taking hits in real hostilities.
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  5. Hypersonics are magnets for self-blinding plasma shields, which also serve as a beacon to defending radars. Those missiles require not-so-invulnerable external guidance all the way in unless they slow wayy down.
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  6. And they've been preparing an elaborate unwelcome mat for the PLA over the past half century.
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  7. Only made, the designs come from the US and Japan. The making part is getting spread especially back to the US, while the physical sensitivity of chip fabs would quickly destroy its ability to spin up after hostilities end.
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  8. Sounds like you underestimate the suspicion China's neighbors have developed towards especially Mainlanders, some ancient some recent but all commonly popular.
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  9. We asked the same question about the same China (🇹🇼) back in the late 1930s, and got our answer at Pearl Harbor.
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