Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

  1. Everyone fires their missiles and then dies.
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  2. We don’t even need anything that drastic. The US just needs to stunt China’s growth for a couple decades until their demographics start be coming a huge problem.
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  3.  @vilzupuupaa4680  when has that ever stopped Russia?
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  4. And China will become the world's largest parking lot.
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  5. You’re 5th great grandfather lived it, and you will see it again
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  6. Texas and California have a disproportionate amount of US military hardware. Fort Hood in Texas is a massive training center for tanks, and as the video mentioned, California has a large part of the Pacific fleet.
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  7. The UN forces were winning at the time of the ceasefire, and took the third highest casualty rate after North and South Korea. Furthermore, all the success China had was do to human wave tactics, which are no longer acceptable.
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  8. In Korea China was using human wave tactics, took huge casualties, and was being driven back at the time of the ceasefire. Today they'd do even worse because they've become a conventional military, which are the type of military the US is best at fighting.
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  9. The Chinese military is corrupt as hell. The troops are under trained. Their equipment, as whole, is well behind the US. China's only aircraft carrier spends most the time in port because of mechanical problems, and they can't even built their own jet engines.
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  10. Depends on what you mean by China.
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  11. Why does there need to be a land invasion? The US only needs to blockade China. 80% of China's economy come from exports. I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to be guy in charge of a country that just had 80% of it's economy disappear. You have options and they're all bad.
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  12. The US Navy is more than twice the tonnage of the Chinese navy and better trained/equipped.
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  13. 1) they have to side with Napoleon for the video. 2) the French would definitely side with the French. I think most people from nations with strong national identities would side their countrymen if transported back in time if they weren’t trying to not interfere.
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  14. Y’all are forgetting a few things: 1) there only a couple times of year the weather allows for an invasion, 2) China has to take control of Taiwan in that window or their troops will more or less cut off.
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  15. Nice list and f not Americans. I can give an even bigger list of Americans who did things everyone thought were impossible.
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  16. The US is NATO. Without the US NATO is just a bunch of squiggling limbs.
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  17. Pa and big brother are teaching little Oz how make nuclear subs.
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  18. Poland is reclaiming its place as a European power
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  19. War is great for business if you're in the right kind of business.
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  20.  @ГеоргийМурзич  how does that have anything to do with Russia’s habit of invading neutral nations?
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  21. The word you’re looking for is morale
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  22. @SLOWPOKE RODRIGUEZ Afganistan? Large parts were and still are controlled by a terrorist organization that murdered thousands of Americans without even a hint of justification. The rest you mention are dictatorships, which the US considers an enemy against all humanity.
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  23. Yes, the British really want Sovites sweeping across mainland Europe so that they're just across the channel. Most people would generally like to wreck someone else's house than their own.
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  24. Texas produces 40% of US oil production.
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  25. People have been predicting the down fall of the US for 241 years.
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  26. It’s not incompetence. It’s deliberate.
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  27. The US took Afghanistan and Iraq in weeks. The problem was keeping them from murdering each other en mass.
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  28. I think you're mixing up the main land with Taiwan.
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  29.  @unclejoeoakland  aerospace has abandoned California, and a major fighter factory is Dallas
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  30. Rather than mirrors, a better armor choice against lasers is an ablative coating similar to the ones use as heat-shields on spacecraft.
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  31. Most of China’s food is either imported or dependent on imported fertilizer. A war could leave 500 million people starving in China. Also, China’s economy isn’t ascendent. Their growth is built on extreme over leveraging, and with the Evergrand and other developers collapsing as we speak, their economy looks like it’s in a slow motion implosion. Moreover, China’s demographics are terrible; within the decade China is going to have more retirees than 20-30 year-olds. A country can’t run on pensions.
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  32. Lions are good at hunting gazelle, not rats.
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  33. Dictatorships, like China, love to invest in wonder weapons that will single-handedly sweep the enemy. The US invests in smaller, more practical weapon systems.
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  34. China is not going to be fighting a guerrilla war. China is going to be fighting a conventional war. Furthermore, China's military is not well trained or disciplined.
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  35. Mad Max, no war in human history has ever been fought for purely altruistic reasons.
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  36. The UK is out of the EU.
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  37.  @jamescormack4669  the US has the best electronics, including sensors.
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  38. China actually has a fair bit of legacy aircraft from decades ago, so stringers and the like might be surprising effective. Also, China has said they would invade in Taiwan declared independence, and Taiwan might declare independence at anytime.
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  39. The US spent nearly two decades fighting insurgencies in territory even harder to fight in.
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  40. A large badly feed, badly trained, badly equipped, badly lead, army with weak logistics. North Korea's army has about one massive offensive until they have to fall back.
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  41. China believes in peace? Tell that to Tibet, Taiwan, and all its neighbors that have had and some still have conflicts over territory.
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  42. World citizen, all the estimates one the number of nuclear warheads China has have between 200 and 300. Also, China's population is a lot more concentrated than the US's. More than 90% of China's population lives in about a third of the country. While the majority of the US population lives on the costs, there is a significant portion of the population living out side the East and West costs. Back to my original point, if China was ever to use a nuclear weapon against the US, the US retaliation would be unimaginably destructive to China, which why the idea of using one against the US is moronic.
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  43. The first gulf war were Iraq went from having the fourth largest army in the world to having no functioning military in six weeks of air combat and 4 days of ground fighting.
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  44. You think China's navy could cross the largest ocean on the planet while fighting the most powerful navy in human history? The power difference between the USN and all the other navies is greater than the two power rule, were the Royal Navy was twice as powerful as the next two navies combined to insure their naval supremacy.
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  45. A larger economy is definitely an advantage, but it’s far from the determining factor.
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  46. Jasc Random, the Soviets took a lot longer to mobilize than the US did; although, the US was already starting to mobilize before Pearl Harbor in case something like that happened. Also, the Soviets took much high casualties than the Germans, something I’m not sure China would be willing to take now days. A large part of why the CCP is still in charge is because they’ve been able to deliver economic growth and prosperity.
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  47. Want to tell the mongols about not being able to conquer China or Russia?
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  48. Drones are a valuable class of weapons, but they can only do so much. With the wear and combat loses, I can see China moving in some of their less capable fighters. There was a lot of interference from the mainland in Taiwan’s elections, and people’s opinions can change pretty quickly, sometimes over night with a big event.
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  49.  @mikicerise6250  don’t try reasoning with a wumao. All you can do is make fun of them.
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  50. China makes low quality toys and other light industrial goods. The US makes weapons, aircraft, and other heavy industrial goods.
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  51. An undersized shield or a nigh unstoppable spear. With how some Polls acted after the fall of Poland, I wouldn’t be surprised if they went on the offense.
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  52. You are badly mistaken. Modernly equipped and well trained troops can easily win against much larger forces of less well equipped and train troops.
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  53. You're a fucking idiot. Any Chinese invasion force would be sunk in spitting distance of the Chinese coast line. Also, you're the one who needs to learn history. Japan didn't take over Pearl Harbor; they attacked it. And they were only successful because extensive preparations and a failure of communication in the military.
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  54. 1) You're presuming those missiles work work perfectly. 2) US carrier groups are designed to put as many ships between the carrier and threat as possible.
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  55. Capt. β2 I'm not just talking about malfunctions and failure rates. The does have the largest stealth aircraft fleet in the world, which would be used to target the missile and radar sites and open up a gap.
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  56. Texas. Our GDP is equal to the tenth largest in the world, and we've got more guns than people.
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  57. One was a guerrilla war, the other would be a conventional war.
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  58. WW2 dogfights didn't last more than a few minutes on average, so that's not really any different.
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  59. One side fires a nuke; the other side fires theirs; everyone dies. I don't know about you but that's kind of boring.
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  60. Ken I'm not underestimating China. The US is just that overwhelmingly power. Also, this is excluding nuclear, and minor attacks would only anger the American public, strengthening the the public's resolve.
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  61. Not when China becomes the world’s largest retirement home.
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  62. Biden would forget what he’s supposed to be doing wile stuffing his foot in his mouth and Bernie would start punching himself in the face after an audience member jumps into the cage.
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  63. But the only thing the Yamato would be hitting is water, while the Iowa would be hitting Yamato, particularly at night.
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  64. Obsidianstatue, war is politics with guns, trying to separate the two is futile. I never said manned aircraft were more expendable. I’m arguing that you can’t replace manned aircraft with drones, at least in some key areas.
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  65. The US is in the process of designing a new tank
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  66. If the try that, their economy implodes.
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  67. Only idiots thought Russia was a superpower, but everyone has been shocked how poorly they’ve been performing in Ukraine.
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  68. Being able to get a crew and hull back fighting by replacing a turret sounds great to a military, particularly one without the vast resources of the USA.
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  69. The laster question actually proves Taiwan can win if they make the cost more than China can afford.
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  70. Those are US bases in Japan, so Japan is neutral.
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  71. The Abrams has bad fuel economy for a tank in general because the decision was to favor performance over fuel efficiency.
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  72. They don’t. Orbital class rockets are basically ICBMs, and the US leads that field by a large margin
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  73. What part of Asia? We’ve had troops in Asia for nearly two decades.
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  74. Skip the planes. Go for the ships.
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  75. It has an independent government, a military, relations with other countries etc.. The only thing that they don’t have is recognition.
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  76.  @Bizanio  Putting harsh tariffs on China is not opposing China?
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  77.  @whatisahandle_69  how does saying Putin would be to afraid to do something like invaded Ukraine reinforce the isea that Trump is a Russian asset? It’s the fact that Putin did that just a year after Trump left that’s telling
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  78.  @whatisahandle_69  sorry, but Trump was supposed to do what when Ukraine, not an ally or important trade partner, had been fighting Russian backed separatists for years before he took office? Under Obama Russia took Crimea and now under Biden they’re going for the whole country
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  79. Ok Mr. Death cultist
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  80. Good luck trying to kill ≈70 officers.
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  81. Never make a bet when you’re the German military.
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  82. No, 8,000 tanks vs 19,500 rusting hulls and 500 tanks.
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  83.  @Henry-xu5jg  it’s a lot easier to find someone to make stuff for you than finding someone to buy the stuff you make. Mongolia can’t feed China. Even the entirety of American food exports —the US being by far the largest food exporter in the world—, couldn’t supply China with all the food they need in a famine. China is very oil poor for its population size, which is why it imports so much from the Middle East. As for coal, they have a fair amount, but they’re choking to death on its smoke.
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  84. jurisprudens, I’m not saying there aren’t downsides. Other options like mirrors make you more noticeable and wouldn’t have much of an effect. Heat resistant tiles are too expensive and really fragile. Also, ablative coatings can be applied without too much modification to equipment.
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  85.  @Darthspike88  the Japanese would have to be willing to just keep throwing ships at the carrier group. The IJN would also have consider the onslaught of period ships that would come later.
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  86. Yaponnk, putting a carrier with temporary repairs into battle. Also, a number of those aircraft attacks were pretty daring. Just knowing the Japanese were going to attack Midway doesn’t mean there was nothing daring about how the US fiught the battle. You really need to learn some more history. At the start of WW2 Germany and Japan had more powerful militaries than the US. Throughout US history we’ve fought more powerful enemies.
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  87. The US was started by criminals, religious zealots, and the most ambitious entrepreneurs of Europe who were left to survive a hostile continent.
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  88. Lowering obervablity is always useful. Of course, hard kill options are useful as well, but together they’re truly dangerous.
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  89. Sorry, but knives aren’t going to do much against guys with shields, armor, and extensive training in hand to hand.
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  90. Pakistan and China are very close allies. I highly doubt Pakistan would let the US use them as a platform for an invasion of China. Although, India might take the opportunity to assert their claims on disputed territory, which could have a similar effect.
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  91. Russia has jumped at any chance to avoid any direct conflict with the US, and North Korea is the asthmatic kid with only on punch in him.
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  92. The Folklands aren't Argentinan or Spanish. They are the rightful territory of the U.K.
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  93. Taiwan is functionally a separate nation from mainland China, and a lot of people in Taiwan want to officially declare Taiwan a separate nation.
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  94. The US Air Force and Navy air wing are both larger and much more advanced than China's air force
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  95. China produces a lot of steel, but it's low quality. China doesn't have a lot of skill in metallurgy, which is required for making things like jet engines and other parts of planes.
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  96. Russia would most likely keep out of the actual fighting because they wouldn't want to star a war in Europe with the rest of NATO.
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  97. Kyon-J Russia is going to do what Russia sees as best for Russia. What Russia sees as best for Russia, only Putin knows.
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  98. Not even Alexander the Great could win the war for China.
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  99. You're just asking how bad Canada would lose.
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  100. China can't build jet engines and is entirely reliant on buying them from Russia.
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  101. Insurgent war =/= conventional war
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  102. Even if Chinese subs had the range to get to the Panama Canal, they would be hunted by one of the best sub hunting navies in the world across the largest ocean in the world.
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  103. I think China would rather lose a war than be turned into a parking lot.
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  104. China is confirmed to only have 260 nuclear warheads. That's about the same number as one Ohio class missile sub. The US has 14 Ohio class subs, and that's on part of the US's second strike capabilities. Anything does to the US, the US will do more 30x over to China. China will not us nuclear weapons because they do not want to be destroyed.
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  105. Actually, the Chinese economy isn't doing so well. Right now the government is trying to do everything they can to stop the devaluing of Chinese currency.
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  106. And the US has more than 30 times as many warheads. One Ohio class sub can carry the same number of warheads as all of China's arsenal. If China fires one nuck, China's population will drop by more than a billion.
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  107. You're delusional. Japan and South Korea aren't going to tell their most powerful ally as they're being hammered (might I add that the amount of damage China can do to either). If anything, Japan and South Korea are going to ask for more support from the US.
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  108. I have a hard time seeing Japan telling their protectors leave as they're being shelled.
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  109. The US wasn't beaten in Korea. The Chinese and North Korean forces were being driven back when the ceasefire was signed. Also, took 600 thousand casualties while the US took 50 thousand. Twelve times the casualties and getting driven back doesn't sound like a victory to me.
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  110. China has limited amphibious assault ability, so attacking Taiwan would be questionable and Japan impossible.
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  111. China lost many times more soldiers and was being pushed back at the time the armistice was signed.
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  112. China vs. Japan is China vs. the US.
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  113. The majority of US debt is owned by Americans and the largest foreign creditor to the US is Japan. Also, your forgetting that the US is China's largest trade partner, and the Chinese economy is actually pretty week.
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  114. Even the Chinese government doesn't believe the 7% figure from the Chinese government. The Chinese economy is far from the largest in the world. China only over took the US in one area, and that's only because of the low value of Chinese currency, which might be coming back to bite them. Also, the US may not have as large of its economy from manufacturing as it once did, but the US still is one of the world's largest manufacturers.
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  115. North Korea wouldn't do anything, and then demand that control of South Korea be given over to them.
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  116. And every Chinese city would be ash and rubble. Don't forget the 34 times the number of nuclear warheads China does.
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  117. Even if China's new anti ship missiles work perfectly, the US can still hold a blockade out of range of the missiles. China is not Vietnam. China has a conventional military with an ethos of fallow orders rather than fight for the cause.
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  118. Well, stealth doesn't make a plane invisible to radar. It just reduces the the range radar can detect planes at. The Chinese are, also, planning on attacking the tanker planes rather than taking US planes head on.
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  119. Rocket, 80% of China's economy comes from exports, and with most of China's population living a little above the global poverty level, internal demand just can't replace the exports. Also, land routes just aren't going to cut it. The US has the largest freight rail system is the largest in the world and couldn't move what China would need to move. The idea of trying to move all that stuff by truck just gets laughable. The only way China can move the amount of goods they need is by sea. With out trade, the Chinese government will be looking at a lot of middle-class people who are pissed off because the Chinese government made promises of economic prosperity which they couldn't keep. That could easily lead to major civil unrest. The US on the other hand can move manufacturing to other countries, including bringing some of it bad to the US. Right now, China is in the weak position, and they know it. Everything they're doing is meant to sure up their position.
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  120. The US would annex Canada and Mexico immediately and take control of Cuba, Greenland, and Japan. Russia would probably pull the old burn everything down while running away and waiting for winter. After that I have no idea.
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  121. Russia' sub fleet is old and decrepit. Also, the US is excellent at sub hunting.
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  122. China couldn't invade Japan.
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  123. In every war that’s been fought there.
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  124. Laud, that’s actually very communist.
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  125. That’s all Russian military equipment
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  126. Yes, nothing to worry about except for a bitter war that's going to kill a lot of their citizens.
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  127. The legions were only heavy infantry. The auxiliary had the archers and other types of soldiers.
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  128. This is about fighting in Germany.
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  129. Not against the XM360, and this has a simplified loading mechanism, which make it faster and more reliable.
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  130.  @StabbinJoeScarborough  a small correction, it’s the Meggitt autoloader paired with the XM360 gun. As for those things, you didn’t ask about them. You wanted to know about how it does are loading rounds, and I told you.
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  131. A multipolar world leads to war. Roma and Carthage fought three wars. The world had several major poles in WW2.
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  132. You do understand what a hypothetical situation is, right?
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  133. It’s hard to predict what effect that would have, and it wouldn’t be any fun if one side just ran away because of future shock.
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  134. Russia would love a long drawn out war between the US and EU, so they would help the losing side covertly. Turkey is in a similar position. Ultimately, they probably want the US to win but at a heavy cost, taking Europe out of the game, while the US would have to pull back.
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  135. A front engine causes a lot of problems. Also, tank turrets sit in the hull as much as on it, so there’s not space under them
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  136. What aren’t you getting?
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  137.  @lofsacul  there’s the National Guard, which the governors are in charge of unless the president nationalizes them. Then there are state militias. Most states done have a militia though, and the few there are, are territorially trained.
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  138. Mongolia probably wouldn’t do anything. Inner Mongolia might try breaking away from China and possibly joining Mongolia.
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  139. 20k outdated tanks. Russia only has about 600 modern tanks.
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  140. The same number of men but with better weapons. I doubt it. Santa Anna had 3-4,000 men. That’s 15-20 times as many men.
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  141. Big metal boxes are pretty good at protecting from EMPs.
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  142. Whole new vehicles. There’s been significant changes to the inside of the tank.
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  143. No, it’s better to not be detected. He next best option is to not get hit.
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  144.  @jammiedodger7040  do you know how hard it is to spot a plane at altitude by eye? I’ve lived near enough to a military and civilian joint use air port most of my life, and even giant cargo planes are dots.
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  145.  @jammiedodger7040  stealth bombers can’t go supersonic, and fighters with super cruise drop to subsonic before getting to the engagement zone.
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  146. High proof booze!
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  147.  @lape2002  no, China and the US are very close in size.
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  148.  @54032Zepol  it’s not a thin strip. It’s about a 1/3 of the country. That’s still a small area to fit over a billion people
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  149.  @lape2002  I looked up several sources, and most of them put the US and China within 500k sqkm of each other. That’s about a 5% difference.
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  150. Texas has 30% the population of Germany with 1/2 the GDP of Germany. Our states are the equivalent of countries in the EU. We also have some advantages in terms of resources
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  151. It’s called a lucky shot for a reason. You would be amazed by how many fights have been won by golden bbs.
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  152. Points 2 and 3 are signs of how bad off China is, not a sign of strength.
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  153. The only reason they would win is numbers.
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  154. I guess you missed what happened in the Gulf war where Russian built tanks got destroyed in the hundreds.
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  155. As many as it takes to run out of ammo.
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  156. They'd do great until they hit a South Korean armored unit.
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  157. Finland is part of Scandinavia.
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  158. A week long war like what happened in the Gulf War?
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  159. Because it was an alien fucking with them for fun.
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  160. North Korea has 65 years to dig in that's the difference between the Korean War and now.
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  161. The Germans tried that a while back. It didn’t work out for them.
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  162.  @kos369  fight with your closest ally or the people you’ve been trying to get away from for the last thousand years
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  163. Legions were only heavy infantry.
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  164. You’ve got everything backwards. China was the cheap labor. They’re not cheap anymore, and they’re completely dependent on imported raw materials and foreign markets to sell their good in. Also, the US could cancel all debt held by China, and nobody would care.
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  165.  @Luxai  China is the 3rd largest holder of US debt after Americans and Japan. Also, the US canceling our debt to China might set off mass cancellation by other countries. It would destroy their economy.
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  166.  @Luxai  China is not vital to the world’s economy. They’re just low skilled, cheap labor. There are lots of other countries with cheap labor. Also, the there are lots of small containers that are already at risk of not paying the debts to China because China deliberately lent them too much money. Japan would probably join in too because they hate China. If China doesn’t pay back their debts to Americans, some creditors lose money. If the US doesn’t pay back it’s debts to China, China loses its currency reserves, which it uses to manage their economy.
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  167.  @Luxai  the US has a massive trade deficit with China because China is poor and we buy their cheap labor. The rich man doesn’t need to buy the poor man’s trinkets, particularly when others are offering the same thing, but the poor man needs the rick man to buy his trinkets. No one would default on debts to the US. The US is the core of global trade. Everyone trades in the USD. There are even other countries that the USD is an official currency in.
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  168.  @Luxai  get a lot of poor people together and add all their money up; it might be comparable to a few rich people, but they’re still poor. Also, low skilled (cheap) labor is low value added. You’re only going to stay poor doing that kind of work. Countries in the EU trading with countries outside the EU use USD, and half of trade between EU members is done in USD.
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  169. Sadam Hussain thought the same. Go ask him at his grave how well that worked.
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  170. mohammad, that’s partially true, nor does it refute what I said.
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  171. Just 100 nuclear warheads is enough to cause nuclear winter.
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  172. I'm sure Russia would be able to intercept some of the warheads, but they would simply run out of intercepter missiles if any one but North Korea fired their arsenal, just like everyone else. If Russia use nuclear weapons first, I'm sure the British will hold up their end of Mutually Assured Destruction even if the French won't.
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  173. The only nukes ever in South Korea were American.
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  174. Reagan was an idiot. We still don't have the tech to do what he wanted.
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  175. People like you have been declaring the tank obsolete for the last century. There’s always going to be an armored vehicle with direct fire capabilities. Body armor didn’t disappear with the invention of fire arms. Abbreviated forms of armor were used all the way up to WW1, and armor has bad a comeback with improvements in material science.
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  176. Chinese doesn’t have letters, and Arabic numerals are much easier to read than traditional Chinese numerals.
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  177. The US has never had a mass mobilization? Creating a military with 7 million men, he largest the US military has ever been, and building hundreds of thousands of trucks and other thin skined vehicles, tens of thousands of tanks/armored vehicles and airplanes, thousands of ships, and billions of round of ammunition. The US loves mass mobilization if you can show a legitimate existential threat to the country, and a war with the Sovite Union would be exactly that.
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  178.  @Superpooper-2020  I think you mean China because China is too weak to take Taiwan.
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  179.  @Superpooper-2020  You’re thinking about China. That was a nasty power dive straight into the ground that plane did.
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  180.  @Superpooper-2020  hypersonic weapons are just hype.
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  181. And the US would drop hundreds on nukes on them in retaliation.
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  182. A shrinking population and an economy the size of the city with 1/10th the population.
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  183. The only threat the Soviets had compared to the US in conventional war was shear numbers, but since the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia hasn’t had the economy or population to out match the US.
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  184. Their ships are trapped inside the first island chain, and starting a nuclear war against a country with 20 times more nuke is suicidal.
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  185. The F-15 is a gen. 4 fighter.
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  186. Japan was committing atrocities against the Chinese. The US would be liberating them from oppressive rulers.
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  187.  @OmikronZeta  most modern tanks are flex fuel. All they would need high proof alcohol.
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  188.  @OmikronZeta  alcohol was part of the rations. I just don’t know if it was high enough proof
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  189.  @OmikronZeta  as long as it’s 40% abv or above, it will burn; if it burns, it will work as fuel. Sure, the has mileage wouldn’t be as good as and the engine might be damaged over time, but the goal is to win the battle. There were nearly 200,000 men at Waterloo. There was enough alcohol.
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  190. If the Germans sent literally everyone they could.
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  191.  @feereel  we’re talking about 1942, not 1939, and it doesn’t matter how much better your systems are if you can’t kill the enemy fast enough to stop them from closing the distance.
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  192. That is beyond simplistic. That’s just simple minded.
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  193. All of their programs were embryonic.
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  194. YouTube backend is causing a lot of people problems.
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  195. He already has.
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  196. What the hell are you talking about? The North's soldiers are poor, underfed, and badly trained.
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  197. No one if ever going to be as good as USSR-chan
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  198. Roman legions rarely broke rank. I mean rare as in they write about it in history books because it’s so rare. When they saw elephants for the first time, didn’t break rank. A few loud bangs and bright flashes of light aren’t going to scare Roman legionaries enough to break ranks.
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  199.  @buckbundy8642  the Romans weren’t the only ones writing accounts. There are plenty of accounts from the other side saying Romans don’t break rank, even when they lost. The only times they really lost organization was during battles like Cannae and Teutoburg Forest
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  200.  @buckbundy8642  I went from almost never to almost never. Pay attention. Also, breaking rank was punishable by death.
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  201. ​ @buckbundy8642  let me explain it to you this way: would you rather fight a barbarian with worse armor and training or your sergeant who has the same training, better armor, and more experience?
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  202.  @buckbundy8642  the point is that you refuse to accept the Romans were highly disciplined soldiers known to not break rank even when facing threats they’ve never seen. The entirety of your argument is shock factor, which loses most of its effects on highly trained and disciplined armies.
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  203.  @BR-dy1ie  guys who didn’t run from a literal monster from their perspective, do you really think they’re going to run from some flashes of light and bangs as some guys drop? It’s just a louder missile weapon, which they’re used to fighting.
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  204. Just one trident 2 has about the same number of warheads as the whole North Korean arsenal.
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  205. THAAD is a US owned and operated system, which has been deployed in South Korea.
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  206. From an outside prospective, it looks like the German government is deliberately trying to be as non-threatening as possible.
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  207. China loses the 19th Sino-Vietnamese war.
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  208. Guns only need to be big enough to kill your enemies.
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  209. Most of the combat units were American with, and they completely annihilated the Iraqi army, the fourth largest at the time, in just over 4 days.
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  210. That doesn’t mean anything when you have to bring in nearly all your raw materials.
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  211. Erik Errikson, Russia doesn’t have the high end manufacturing to supply China with those kinds of technology. Also, transport by land is at least 5x the cost.
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  212. The Iowa had better fire control, particularly in bad weather, and Iowa was faster, letting it dictate when it engages the Yamato.
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  213. Both Yamato and Musashi were destroyed by a combination of torpedos bombs. Aircraft and submarines were used in part because they were what was available and the other part was because it was easier. Also, if Yamato was so fierce, why did it get the nickname of hotel Yamato? American battleships were all over, constantly looking for a fight against Japanese battleships, but they really only got it with the Battle of Surigao Strait.
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  214. Yes, because American ships were the ones hiding in port.
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  215. More importantly food. China imports a large portion of their food from other countries because they don’t have enough arable land.
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  216. You’ve got no idea what you’re talking about. Russia has a habit of talking up their stuff then when it actually gets into battle is total shit.
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  217. If we assume the many worlds interpretation, those problems go way. In case you don’t know, the many worlds interpretation is a solution to quantum uncertainty that states there are many parallel universes, and that could me time travel is moving between universes along with moving in time.
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  218. The Swiss are famously neutral, and couldn’t really do much. Norway would likely be over run by the EU, and the UK would reclaim its place the US’s largest aircraft carrier.
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  219. Ukraine’s best option is siege the peninsula
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  220. Russia has use a lot of their ammo stock pile fighting in Syria, so they might just run short on ammo trying to fight another war.
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  221. The US has the means and desire to field the best equipment.
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  222. The B-29 flew too high to be effectively intercepted, and US airpower would completely dominate Europe. The US was prepared to start mass producing nuclear warheads.
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  223.  @vuktodic1356  B-29 flew higher than the effective altitude of all the Soviet fighters and AAA. I’m sure dumb luck or an exceptional pilot could shoot down a few, but not nearly the slaughter Vano thinks. No one is talking about hundreds, just dozens, and the US was producing enough weapons grade uranium and plutonium to make that many.
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  224.  @vans2142  you’re presuming that the Germans and Soviets could have deployed enough jets to stop the B-29s. Between the limited production capacity, limited engine life, and air combat with other planes, you’re talking about fantasy.
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  225.  @iamgreat1234  I don’t know what kind of ass backwards history you’ve been taught. China attacked UN forced unprovoked.
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  226.  @JohnnyWednesday  are you stupid? No seriously. Most of that diatribe has nothing to do with the weapon systems the US develops. The one point that has anything to do with what I wrote is is nuclear weapons, but those actually work as promised.
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  227. You need a Sabaton history lesson. Look up 40:1.
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  228. M60s weren’t in the first Gulf war. Those where M1-A1s.
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  229. 6 ships vs 100s of ships. Also, German aircraft are outdated.
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  230. You need to learn more history. The US annihilated Iraq in 1991, and South Korea is still a country.
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  231. Nuclear reactors are nothing like nuclear warheads. There’s not even enough uranium to make weapons grade material.
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  232. When you plan to fight someplace so flat the curvature of the Earth is what stops you from seeing into infinity, having almost no depression doesn’t matter.
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  233. Noisykiller, my point is that on the European plains where Soviet and now Russian tanks are built to fight on have very little in the way of hills, and ones that are there aren’t that tall.
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  234. Noisykiller, I’m not disagreeing. I’m just making the point that it’s not really problem for where they’re meant to fight.
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  235.  @whjk1  they killed fewer Americans in over a decade than die in a day.
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  236.  @anthonyJones-ll4ei  what’s sad about stating facts?
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  237. The US has been able to do the dame for the last 1/2 century.
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  238.  @lirex3248  the DF-17 isn’t 20 times faster than ballistic missiles or ballistic-missile defenses. The DF-17 is basically just a steerable upper stage of a medium range ballistic missile. Also, it doesn’t have the range to make it to the US.
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  239.  @lirex3248  DF-41 is just a regular ICBM. The US has a number of defense systems to intercept them: THAAD, AEGIS, GMD, and Patriot pack 3. Also, DF-17 isn’t powerful enough to destroy a base. At best it can destroy a building.
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  240.  @lirex3248  the US invented MIRVs back in the 1960s. The Trident missile can carry up to 12 MIRVs. The DF-41 is a normal ICBM.
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  241.  @lirex3248  I’m not here for a dick measuring competition. You claimed China has super missiles that the US nothing comparable to, which I have thoroughly disproven.  PS, in horseshoes and thermal-nuclear warheads, close enough counts.
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  242. Hope you enjoy being in a war zone without a gun
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  243. That’s why the US invests so much into the censers.
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  244. Hey Peter.
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  245. That’s all we’ve got.
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  246. That sums up the problem with the T-14 very well.
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  247. China’s progress was built on foundation of sand, and it’s coming down regardless of Xi.
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  248. US military doctrine emphasizes boldness and initiative, so our military units have a habit of being in places and doing things that the enemy weren’t planning on.
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  249. Yaponnk, no, that was US grand strategy in WW2.
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  250. But $1,000 drones don’t do so well against a $5 bullet or jammers
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  251.  @robertshank9778  you’re the one not understanding. We have ways of neutralizing drone swarms. Moreover, drones cost money, even if not much per unit, so there’s a number where it’s cheaper to use other weapons systems to destroy a tank.
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  252.  pinkie perky  arching fire was used with bows, but flat trajectories were more common.
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  253.  pinkie perky  range and tactics are based on what your weapon systems are and aren’t good at. Arrows are terrible in arching fire, and they are very expensive one time use weapons to use for effect. That obviously doesn’t mean it wasn’t done, but not commonly. Furthermore, the sources show/say most archers fired flat.
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  254. You think there are going to be trials after the fighting Armageddon?
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  255.  @joneszer1  everyone the Romans fought, except other Romans, had longer range weapons. The Roman legionaries’s basic fighting tactic was to use their scutum to protect themselves while getting past the effective range of the weapons of their enemies. Speaking scutum, they were actually pretty sturdy. They wouldn’t stop bullets, but they would eat a lot of energy and deform the bullets.
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