Comments by "Gavin Mc" (@gavinmc5285) on "U.S. Major General: “China's Military Buildup Is Astonishing”" video.

  1. because Maoist Communism has ruled China since 1949 does not mean that 1.4 billion people and 5000 years of history are a problem. It does mean that the growing power of Maoist Communism is of increasingly problematic potential.
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  2. has a US presence dampened down the SU-DDS battle then?
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  3. both. the presence of a footprint can act as a deterrence in the sense of containment and a reminder in favor for the principle of freedom of navigation, against any policy of monopolistic territorial acquisition (land, sea or air) and as a defense against prospective, potential or actual incursion. on the other foot, the growth of a military-based presence has the potential to scare, incite, trouble and instigate conflict, particularly if: a. the received perception of another power's containment policy or balance of power build-up is deemed oppressive, restrictive, dangerous, threatening or challenging; b. a counter-policy of aggressive action (e.g. applying military clarity to Taiwan) is deemed 'necessary' for the survival of [insert rationale] due to the growing hegemony of [insert target].
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  4. soon as the PRC initiates 'aggressor status' against Taiwan it will be the beginning of the end for the Communist Party of China and the actual beginning of the battle for the governance of global earth that the United Nations could never secure with teeth. if the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine means anything, it is that aggressor status - even with Orwellian propaganda, extreme authoritarian power, ultra-nationalism and overwhelming military force - without the foundations necessary to connect the dots becomes increasingly isolated, increasingly extreme and increasingly expensive - the latter in blood and treasure. one principle, and essentially the principal, difference between 2025 and 1945 is computing. now with added artificial intelligence. all the clever marketing, means of production, dialectical materialism and work harder, work smarter dictatorship of the proletariat is never going to change the underlying dynamics that a lack of institutional authority simply cannot ultimately mask or cover by increasing or ratcheting up the fear imposed by authoritarian totalitaitarianism.
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  5. an institutional-based United Sovereign States of Earth or an Earth dominated by a power-centered arbitrary authoritarian totalitarian communism regime.
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  6. 'we don't know why that is'... we know it's communism but we don't wish to engage on that level.
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  7. let's talk then
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  8.  @hamzatariq5073  and?
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