Comments by "hugh mungus" (@hughmungus2760) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. thats like most youth in the developed world.
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  2.  @ferrariguy8278  Zeihan predicted the US would beat covid with flying colours while china would collapse by the end of 2020, He's eating humble pie right now.
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  3. tried old rightwing tropes. He even cites that Liar Serpenza. You know he's talking out of his ass.
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  4.  @emilsohn1671  lasers are extremely specialised weapons systems that have at best a few km of range. You would need massive numbers of them to provide any real protection on the strategic level and they are more or less useless against anything other than drones meaning they'd be a logistical liability.
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  5. this guy has to invent fissures where there are none. Seriously? warlordism? China doesn't even have a US style federalism where states have independent governments. Provincial leaders in china are regularly rotated from their positions up and down the CCP hierarchy as if it were a corporation. The governor of Shanxi isn't going to suddenly declare independence because he's in disagreement with central government edicts. Nor would the PLA western theatre command refuse to take orders from the central military commission if the eastern theatre command was losing.
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  6. I highly doubt china is going to actually break apart. This is pure copium coming from someone who clearly is insecure about the rise of china. Though giving him the benefit of the doubt, it might be a figure of speech, a 'warlord period' might mean competing factions inside the CCP actively struggling over the direction where the country should go without it actually devolving to civil war.
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  7.  @trentn1127  India is actually neutral, and slightly Russia leaning. For india, they get most of their fertiliser and military equipment from Russia, should they get into a war with china, russia can just veto the whole thing by refusing to provide arms.
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  8. all credibility lost when he is cited as a source.
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  9.  @arthurmiranda8896  I swear the people who actually like this channel must be the children of neocons.
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  10. Also. this guy blaming birthrate declines on women, forgetting the fact that almost ALL polling show the cost of having a child as the number 1 contributing factor why couples don't have kids.
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  11. chinese seige an blockade of taiwan can happen at any time. And taiwan has FAR less ability to weather resource starvation.
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  12. While there maybe turmoil within the CCP I just can't see anyone actually splintering off and forming their own seperate government. Chinese nationalism and aversion to seperatism is just too strong for that to happen. Whats more likely to happen is a palace coup where another clique takes power in the CCP and heads in a different direction while most of the country is left in the dark about whats happening.
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  13.  @stcredzero  That covid was a bioweapon for starters
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  14. He makes a ton of misconceptions about chinese people by relying on borderline racist tropes.
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  15. Japan in the 80s was already a rich country thats why a collapse in it's growth was perminant. China still has a large portion of the country thats developing which means room to grow. This is why despite whats going on, china was reported at growing 4.5% last quarter while the entire world is slipping into recession... again.
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  16. Well nice knowing you, this channel is probably going to get shadow banned off youtube soon the rate you're going.
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  17. Also claims to be '22' even though he was claiming to be '22' several years ago
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  18.  @benharris7358  Exactly, it costs china nothing to simply relocate some troops within it's own borders while the US and allies need to supply it's counter-buildup of troops thousands of miles away from home. China could just leave those invasion troop there for a decade and the US would be bleeding money.
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  19.  @delgado.adrian160  Taiwan is less than 100 miles off the chinese coast. A 'brown water navy' is more than enough to keep the entire island blocked off. The US realistically can't lift the blockade of taiwan without striking the chinese mainland as chinese land based bombers carrying air launched antiship missiles can make short work of any ship attempting to run the blockade. Then you have land based rocket artillery that will blow up any ship docking in taiwan. the entire island is going to be a giant shooting gallery. The US will essentially have to escalate to full scale bombardment of the chinese mainland to suppress airfields (including ones deep inland for the strategic bombers) and rocket batteries to even have a hope of keeping supply lines open to taiwan. which is pretty much escalating to a hairs breadth of nuclear war. Even then, the chinese can make it nightmarishly difficult using submarine launched naval mines which will take hours to deploy and months to clear In reality, the US navy wouldn't go within 1000miles of the chinese coast because the moment they pop up on chinese radars, 100 antiship missiles get fired at them from the coastline.
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  20. ​ @thisisaname5589  Russia might be a christian country but they are orthodox which might as well be a sect of Judaism for how similiar it is to what passes for Christianity in the US. As far as common values go, Russia share much more of them with china than with the US. The only people who think theres a snowballs chance in hell Russia would flip to the US side are insane neolibs and equally insane white nationalists.
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  21. So what? China is a fairly low income country with room to grow while the US is already high income economy where all the low hanging fruit for growth has been picked. In theory china can still grow its way out of the problem, albeit with a few changes in spending habits.
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  22. recent wars the US fight in were never against any enemy with technological parity.
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  23.  @therearenoshortcuts9868  despite what is claimed, a shrinking chinese population will be a stabilising factor by reducing wage competition and freeing up more resources per capita. The average chinese could care less about how many people live in the country while they do care about their personal ability to afford things.
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  24. taiwan could be besieged and starved out quite easily the island produces no oil and only 1/3 of its food. The mainland can effectively send the island back to the stone age in the first couple of hours by hitting its power plants and infrastructure hubs.
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  25.  @steel0252  cause he's attacking political correctness and will be lumped in with all the other anti-sjw, alt-right types.
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  26.  @majungasaurusaaaa  10 warlord states with biological weapons then. Say hello to the new black death.
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  27.  @majungasaurusaaaa  and the vast arsenals of chinese WMDs? Or the inevitable fact that some will want to restore the glory of the middle kingdom?
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  28. Yeah two people who got shitcanned from the chinese internet for their bad behavior by chinese netizens and got chased out of the country, clearly they won't be biased.
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  29.  @joshbentley2307  keep in mind minus mass immigration the birthrate of the US is just as bad as china. And all statistics indicate the US returning to a much lower rate of immigration over the coming decades because of political hostility to immigrants inside the US and a declining standard of living in the US.
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  30. The described final outcome of challenges faced by men today is still totally unhinged. Yeah. frustrated young men will probably vote in more radical political parties. Some countries like those in eastern europe and latin america might roll back womens rights (still didn't fix the declining birth rates though) And some countries might go one step further and enact some kind of breeding program if their survival is at stake. If the alternative is a collapse into anarchy and a return to barbarism, I can see states acting in their own interest to raise children from birth to adulthood inside government institutions like you would cattle, just to keep the population stable. And don't think this is far fetched. hundreds of years ago Both Christian and Islamic faiths raised entire armies out of children separated from their parents at birth.
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  31.  @charlesmadre5568  If china invades, it fully expects those fabs to be rendered useless. The goal will be to deny chips to the US and its allies.
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  32.  @Theodish_Warrior  I can see a disgruntled power deciding to launch a 'limited' nuclear strike out of desperation resulting in major technology centers around the world being obliterated and sending everyone back to the pre-digital age.
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  33. Doom and glooming china is a cottage industry. If you were expecting to get useful investment advice from the guy you're better off clicking those stupid ads for 'AI investment platforms'
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  34. dude nobody believes you're 22. Your videos go back 9 years and you didn't sound like a prepubescent pipsqueak in those. At least have the decency to not lie about your age.
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  35. the 'alternative' is a balkanisation of the chinese state and mass suffering like the russians experienced at the fall of the USSR (at best) or another civil war. thats why no chinese person seriously objects to the rule of the CCP.
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  36.  @bigbigmurphy  for starters, the US can't station troops on vietnam. The vietnamese government would never allow it. Places like the phillipines lack the infrastructure to accommodate 100,000+ troops and equipment And japan/south korea are dangerously close to china which leaves them open to a first strike. Oh and having too many troops in south korea might just set off a pre-emptive war with north korea.
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  37.  @lucasharvey8990  The US airforce will struggle to even reach the taiwan straits because the nearest base is in okinawa. The massive numerical superiority of chinese fighters (and naval/sam assets) will make any air battle quite one sided.
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  38.  @joeketa6352  Actual military generals don't make their decisions based on what the mainstream news says. Because no amount of manufactured consent can make up for a genuine military defeat. Japan won't go in first because they don't want to lose 1/2 their navy in the opening salvo to chinese antiship missiles.
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  39.  @azmodanpc  Ask yourself what fundamentally differentiates someone working the a job in the west vs someone working the same job in china: And copy that. Why are people in the west working at fast food expected to be paid twice the average salary a middle income professional in china makes? Clearly theres a mismatch. Find the mismatch and correct it. As for waste. China's high speed rail is a public service just like how the highways in the west have been running at a loss consistantly does that mean people should instead be made to drive on dirt tracks? China's lag in semiconductors is not a natural phenomenon, it was the explicit result of US interference and given enough time the US will regret forcing china to become fully self sufficient in that sector.
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  40. You won't like the alternatives, you have a literal cult that believes race mixing is evil, ethnonationalists and any number of shady billionaires who want to be china's version of Trump. Then FAR down the list you have chinese 'liberals' who are reduced to a bunch of west worshiping SJWs who are as big as a demographic as Tankies are in the west.
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  41.  @total3117  Na who needs those when you got femboys
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  42.  @MitchJohnson0110  well except the fact it retreated in disgrace from afghanistan and has on record admitted it can't win wars anymore.
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  43.  @MitchJohnson0110  winning wars is much more than about winning battles. The Nazis had a very good kill to death ratio but still lost.
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  44.  @MitchJohnson0110  hey you're the one who's boasting about how the US never lost a battle. Yet its quite obvious that the US loses wars all the time.
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  45.  @Boz196  yeah lets ignore what actual couples say they want and blame women right? Sacrifices? you mean things like time? Guess what time translates to for most people. Money. Cause they're working.
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  46. that won't last forever, technology leadership changes all the time.
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  47. The war that kills america won't be from a foreign enemy but from the frustated masses within. When the US can no longer afford the bread and circuses that keeps the masses from revolting. It will cease to exist. Who knows. maybe it'll come in the form of an election of a populist. someone who breaks with elite consensus. Maybe that populist will start a movement which refuses to accept democratic outcomes and that leads to a fragmentation of the US.
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  48. the US as a political entity will probably survive. But it begs the question whether it will be worth living in when all its much touted 'freedoms' vanish.
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  49.  @delgado.adrian160  ships are alot bigger and slower than planes, and the ocean doesn't have alot of terrain cover so no. Antiship missiles are alot easier to aim. If anything the US attempting to fire back at land based launchers are going to struggle because the vast majority of them are mobile and well hidden. Finding and tracking US fleets off the coast of china won't be hard. China has no shortage of space based recon assets and over the horizon radars. As well as recon aircraft and drones. The only hope the US has is to stay well out of range of the majority of chinese missiles and hope the few that do get fired can be intercepted or aren't as accurate as they're advertised to be. Aka. Hope and pray. For the US to get into the taiwan straits with surface vessels, That is basically impossible. If anyone is going to have a jutland moment its the US foolhardily sailing into a swarm of chinese antiship missiles thinking its still the 90s Theres an off chance the US might get a sub or two into the straits but its unlikely they will survive when outnumbered 10:1 by chinese diesel electric subs lying in ambush Taiwan's resources will run out Much faster than the mainland because the mainland at least still produces about 1/3 of the fuel it consumes. With adequate stockpiles, rationing and pipelines to Russia, china could stretch that out for years Taiwan produces no fuel and the few fuel storage locations it has will likely be blown up early on. You can blockade the malacca straits for a while but you choke off the flow of oil to all of asia and countries like Japan and south korea will likely buckle before china does forcing you to lift the blockade eventually. especially if taiwan has already fallen and you're effectively hurting everyone friend or foe for a lost cause. Chinese bombers all have standoff weapons that outrange US destroyers. they can lob these at any US fleet from well out of their engagement range and fly back to do it again in 12 hours. Each chinese bomber can carry upto 6 supersonic antiship missiles or 2-4 hypersonic ones. And china has over 200 bombers. This is on top of the vast numbers of land based missiles and ship based missiles which range from subsonic sea skimmers to hypersonic glide weapons. Chinese land based missiles can reach the western shore of taiwan too. taiwan isn't very big.
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  50. citing professional china bashers damages your credibility.
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