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That was back then when the US still had all its manufacturing ability and didn't rely heavily on easy to disrupt digital infrastructure. Compared the US response to Covid with China's and you'll get a rough idea of what it'd be like. Its quite embrassing that hundreds of thousands of americans had to die before any serious efforts were put into stopping the outbreak. If this were a war, Taiwan would have already fallen for months before the first american responders arrived.
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@SplendidFactor yes a few racist chinese employers is exactly the same thing as owning the entire country and extracting resources from them at below market prices.
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@williammostert5595 somehow I don't see china or russia setting up apartied states and doing genocides like the Belgians.
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yep. conversly advanced but scarce weapons are proving to be totally useless on a strategic level, Just like how the entire global inventory for Scalp and Stormshadow missiles have been depleted in just a handful of attacks and it would take, probably decade to rebuilt them.
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@bernardedwards8461 I cant see any nuclear armed state Not using its arsenal if it's survival legitimately challenged. This is one of the fundamental reasons why countries have nukes.
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@rchilde1 Taiwan's covid response is irrelevant because the US is not taiwan. You might as well try to compare race relations. Im specifically refering to the bumbling inefficiency of the US at getting anything done on a national level and how that'd mess with any effort at defending taiwan. Any btw, China has so far administered nearly 2 billion vaccine doses. So its doing a pretty good job I think.
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@NeoZondix sure, and the reason the Russians are in ukraine is to protect ethnic russians in the donbass. By the way, where did you think the russians got that talking point from?
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Long range cruise missiles have an abysmal time hitting moving targets, Especially in a target rich environment without guidence. Without reconnaissance satellites, which will be shot down in the first few hours of the war, the US would be shooting blindfolded and hoping it doesn't hit taiwanese forces.
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Compare chinese response to natural disasters to US response and you'll know which side gets back into action first.
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maybe in the fever dreams of someone who reads too many Tom clancy novels.
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If china's survival as a state were at stake, I see limited tactical use of nuclear weapons against US military targets.
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@boogie2025 Covid is a mass casualty event that requires the coordination of an entire country to combat. As demonstrated, the US is hopelessly divided over different mutually exclusive solutions to a very simple problem. In a total war, do you think people in the US will accept massive shortages, rationing, conscription and Real censorship for 'national security'? I can bet you half the country will say no just because their 'guy' isn't in office. The US will be fighting a war on it's own home front while trying to fight china.
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@stephenyoung2742 The total cutting off of china between 1949 - 1979 didn't bring the country any closer to being overthrown. You should know by now that sanctions don't work against autocracies.
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Because wallstreet capitalists own the US government and would never allow most of their wealth to evaporate.
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@rchilde1 lol. nope Thats a historical fact. the US never gets into a war unless it's directly attacked or its profitable.
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Sure, if Italy was the industrial heart of the world and largest economy in PPP.
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@NeoZondix why does it matter? the fact is US and turkish troops are occupying parts of syria illegally.
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@NeoZondix The Nazis occupied most of europe but didn't formally annex anyone. I guess that makes it okay then?
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@NeoZondix you think there isn't a military administration in the northeast portion of syria by the US? Hmm I wonder why the Syria army can't go in there and take their land back.
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@NeoZondix the Russians aren't occupying aleppo now are they? Whereas theres a perminant US military presense in northeast syria. Yeah, any NATO is all of NATO. You want collective defense then you need to take collective responsibility, Especially if its the largest 2 militaries in NATO doing it.
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@feetpiece_704 russia's nuclear arsenal was designed back during the soviet era. When it was the first country to put a man in space.
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this would imply the US needs to pre-emptively attack which would be even harder to justify.
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Yeah, as demonstrated by the various crisis happening in the US right now. Even a moderately competant attack on US domestic infrastructure would cripple american warfighting ability. Can't project power abroad if your own states are in revolt.
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Confucian bureaucracy vs neoliberal billionaire feudalism.
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@bryanb2886 Unless your plan is to go to total war with china by attacking civilian infrastructure and industry, thats not a option. The US really wouldn't want this to escalate and china retaliates by firing ICBMs at the US.
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@Bisayang Manok China's BRI infrastructure is hardly military in nature, with the exception of the port in Gwadar and the military base in Djibouti, you'll be bombing random country's civilian infrastructure and expanding the war dramatically. Also india really wouldn't want to attack Gwadar because that would result in a full scale land war with Pakistan where India would be fighting a 2 front war.
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The taiwanese semiconductor industry is unlikely to survive the war no matter who wins. a single missile can destroy hundreds of billions of dollars of equipment.
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These actions are 5 years too late, china has sufficiantly localised enough talent and technology to produce commercially viable chips of upto 7nm and its domestic supply chains for chipbuilding equipment can produce systems capable of producing 14nm. China has already demonstrated that you can produce top of the range supercomputers with domestic chips ever since the 2015. And for AI, having talent is more important than chips, since AI accellerators circumvent the use of GPUs all together and require nothing particularly advanced to produce.
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@Seastallion China suffered a massive famine in the 50s and the CCP wasn't overthrown. You think losing trade with the US would do that today? Just remember, workers who were building exports for the US can be re-employed to build bombs and missiles too. While the US entirely lacks the infrastructure to replace the imports that come from China on short notice. The abysmal failure of the US to even secure facemasks at the start of Covid proves this.
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The irony, Republicans hate 'Wokeness' more than they hate Islam, so much so that they'd sooner adopt Sharia than let trans people share a bathroom with them.
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@puraLusa individual employers might be racist, thats not the same as an apartied state.
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Considering what the US is doing for Israel, nobody buys that statement.
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@boogie2025 china fully anticipates this and the population are basically conditioned from birth to expect the 'imperialist west' to go to war with them again. Thats the difference.
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@larrymiller4 Lol. Russia would have zero means of integrating even the most sparsely populated chinese territories that arent undeveloped deserts in xinjiang. Any other territory in china will be heavily populated by millions of chinese who can't speak a lick of russian for the most part don't share borders with russia. Russia will have to spend decades and trillions integrating a population that will hate it;s guts for backstabbing them. Sounds like you're getting geopolitical takes from video games.
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All these countries minus the US could barely field 1 amphibious assualt group between them and would be next to useless.
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@makinabetterplace China spends just over 2% of GDP on defense, vs the US which spends over 3%. Talk about projection.
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You're assuming the ones in charge in china care about money. Its about power.
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south korea is going to have difficulty existing in the coming decades due to having literally the lowest birth rate in the world, worse than even active warzones like Ukraine. its not even a big country to begin with and could simply cease to exist given a few generations.
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@tim211292 Civilisations evolve differently. Islamic civilisation, Orthodox civilisaton (ie: Russia), Confucian civilisation (China) or Hindu civilisation (India), all have different values and codes of law. What western civilisation needs to understand is that not everyone is going to readily accept western imposed rules, and if they don't, well then WW3 is inevitable.
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@cyberfunk3793 technology transfers for advanced weaponry. Iran is salivating at the idea of domestically manufacturing Su35s and S400s
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@doyouevenpraise189 says the people who's entire history for the past 400 years revolved around settler colonialism about a people who have never once established overseas colonies for 4000 years. Nobody care about your political correctness if you still treat africans as subordinates
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@aleksandarrudic3694 You know the american hegemony is over when china successfully invades Taiwan. This will likely happen because of serious political turmoil in the US, Such as a disputed election turning violent on a large scale.
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@aleksandarrudic3694 I guess I should rephrase that it would be the 'dejure' end of the american hegemony as it would be proven without a shadow of a doubt that the US was unable meet its defense obligations. As for actually fighting the war, china merely needs to show Taiwan that the US is not coming to save it and force a surrender. Unlike, say afghanistan or vietnam. Taiwanese aren't hardened jihadists/revolutionaries who aren't afraid of fighting to the death. If they were forced into some kind of political concession, like renouncing any notion of ever declaring independence or handing over to the mainland control over their media and financial institutions, the mainland can effectively control taiwan without ever putting boots on the ground. China's timeframe for such a takeover is practically unlimited because from the mainland's point of view, the power differential between the US and china is going to cross paths in the coming decades all on its own.
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yeah a country that conducts more peacetime missile live fire drills than all western countries combined can't afford to put fuel in their missiles. What idiot believes this?
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The american hegemony is basically what the Russians/Chinese call the collective west. They don't use emotive language like the GOP, the only country in the group that does similiar is the Iranians who call the US 'the great satan'
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I think US never really sees losing Taiwan as an existential threat, hence it never plays its nuclear card. The current existential threat facing the US is domestic and could see US losing it's democracy.
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the west is a shadow of itself 20 years ago. Today half the west are gender confused, depressed, hate each other and can't come up with any solutions to their day to day problems so they point fingers at other countries.
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with things like distributed aperture reconaissance drones/satellites, finding a carrier today is alot easier than it was 10 years ago.
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@NeoZondix Syria for starters.
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@NeoZondix The US and Turkey
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@NeoZondix The city still exists today you know.
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@NeoZondix thats the 'official' reason the US is still in Syria. Nobody says it because nobody believes the official line.
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@NeoZondix Aleppo was a city of over 2 million before the war. The Russians would have to drop several nukes to destroy something that size in ukraine.
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@NeoZondix Im under no illusion that what the Russians are doing in Ukraine now is just conquest. The already own all the russian speaking territories they claim to be protecting. Any further pushes west is just about destroying whats left of Ukraine as a functional state to prevent them ever being useful to NATO after the war.
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Its a cheap cruise missile with loitering capability. hardly a waste.
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exactly after the west basically bent over for Israel's actions in gaza, nobody should be under the illusion that the west cares about human rights.
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UN recognised countries only, unless you want to consider Donbass and Crimea Russian.
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and if a little 'accident' were to happen to them? Don't forget a the damage a shipborne fire can do considering the bonholm.
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@jackattack2608 No, if you even have a basic understand of how the dam is built you'd know its a gravity dam which means it's sheer mass even if it were reduced to rubble would block the flow of water. Nothing short of multiple direct hits with nuclear weapons would actually 'break' the dam. You might cut power to a province or two. But so could a high altitude EMP.
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This might be the case Now. but not so much in 15 years. Furthermore this assumes the US will see it coming and was prepared for it. Who knows, if some major political instability occurs inside the US from another disputed election and the US has to quell secession movements And/Or gets bogged down in another war somewhere else. China will capitalise on that opportunity.
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brought to you by the same dolts who said china has 22nd century spy chips inside all their electronics that could send signals back to china without being detected.
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@generalrendar7290 Lets face it china isn't going to be doing human wave attacks either. It will be a technological war of attrition in which the country that can keep functioning the longest wins. If all it takes for the US to go into total meltdown is some social media bots and a pandemic, Immagine what a determined attacker can do.
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No, china has been producing 4th gen aircraft engines since 2010, its only the most advanced 5th gen engines china still has issues with.
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Now that the DPRK has ballistic missile submarines, its entirely possible that china (or Russia) could launch a nuclear strike off the coast of North Korea and blame it on them
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Just looking at where china puts most of their money into should tell you that china isn't planning on fighting the US with conventional arms. Its' all 5th generational warfare. About creating calamaties for the opponent and ensuring you can survive calamaties better. In that respect the US is very much behind. Just look at the response to any natural disaster between both countries.
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All modern US combat experience consists of is bombing insurgents and freedom of navigation patrols. There isn't a single active enlistee that has actual combat experience fighting against an enemy thats has even remotely modern hardware. In that respect the US and china are roughly equal. However unlike china, the US military is going woke.
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@seandelaney1700 please making fun of you people's ignorance and hubris is payment enough. The fact you can't accept reality and go straight to namecalling is very reassuring that the west is in decline.
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@seandelaney1700 Im merely riding the waves of western imperial decline call it trolling if you want but you know its true.
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@seandelaney1700 Shaky group? only if you only get your news from western opinion peices. FDI this year in china has been a record high and despite all the talk of decoupling trade volumes have also hit new records. Again. westerners are huffing so much china collapse copium ever since Covid laid bare the shortcomings of the west. I know for a fact that as soon as the QE spigot gets turned off the US economy is over. So you're just going to stew in inflation for years to come.
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India is also a big Russia supporter, India purchases almost as much energy from Russia as china does. And India closely cooperates with Russia on much of their military technology. The Hindutva channels on social media are also extremely pro-Russia. But I get why the west doesn't want to call out India, because the last thing the west wants is another 1.4 billion people pushed onto Russia's side
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Rare earth extraction is not that much of a challenge. Its refinement thats where china has a total monopoly on. Greenland's environmentalists will go nuts if they had to set up smelters for all these rare earths there because they are some of the most polluting industries in the world.
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@bryanb2886 yeah and little wonder why china is building hundreds of new ballistic missile silos. I doubt the US would want to get nuked over taiwan.
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Russia because of its oligarchic structure will likely get pulled into china's orbit entirely once Putin dies of old age. Then Russia will basically be a chinese economic satellite where the Russian elites gain too much by doing trade with China to ever pull away.
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no democracy does no such thing. Asset bubbles and especially housing bubbles happen ALL the time in democracies. The largest crash in human history occurred under a 'democratic' US in 1929. as did the GFC in 2008. In fact I'd say democracies are especially prone to encouraging bubbles because election terms ensures nothing matters beyond the current election cycle, so why not pump a gigantic bubble for temporary political gain?
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China is simply waiting for the US to effectively keel over from its numerous internal problems and imperial overreach. Time is on china's side.
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No. Conscription ended in china for decades.
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The US election is a perfect representation of the current state of western politics. Its a battle between a decrepit neoliberal system headed by out of touch geriatrics and crazy rightwing zealots trying to bring about their demented version of what western hegemony should be.
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taiwan won't have an airforce 60 minutes after the first shots are fired. You think a bunch of handmedown F16s and older equipment stand a chance?
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What a war in 2021 would look like would be waking up one day and realising there internet, power and the ATMs have stopped working.
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the EU has zero interest in fighting in the pacific and NATO is predominantly built to prevent the Russians steamrolling western europe.
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@virginccyy7645 china revealed it's hypersonic WZ8 for a reason. So far the US has no effective counter to hypersonic threats.
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then a massive air bombardment campaign with swarms of drones.
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J. Gaulke And any satellite is open game to be shot down with ground based kinetic kill vehicles.
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@Seastallion China controls the refining process for much of the world's rare earths, thats why no matter where you dig the stuff up from it goes to china to be refined, Without it, the US will be stuck with a bunch of unusable ore that will take years to build refineries for. Only to produce cost prohibitive amounts of refined rare earths.
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@neeneko the US and europe are undergoing its own demographic collapse but its hiding it with mass third world immigration. Pretty soon the US an europe will be indistinguishable ethnically, culturally and most importantly developmentally to places like Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Egypt ect. At that stage it doesn't matter if China/Russia aren't doing great, the US and europe will become dysfunctional failed states rife with ethnic infighting. The nativist backlash will also scare off skilled migration as far right parties gain popularity in europe/US on an anti-immigrant policy. Meaning you Only get the desperate and unskilled who come.
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@napobg6842 what defines a developed country is the level to technological sophistication it has in it's industry and services. Nothing is going to stop china's rise in that respect because china invests tremendous amounts of money into STEM and R&D. The costs associated with elderly care only matter in the west because of generous pension programs promissed to people over the decades, china has no such obligations.
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@napobg6842 chinese people openly accept that the government isn't going to save them in their old age, which is why chinese people have the world's highest personal savings rate at nearly 50%. All that money goes into things like paying off their mortgage so they aren't homeless in their old age.
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@napobg6842 The savings obviously doesn't just sit in a bank, its mostly going towards property. Which is why home ownership in china is something like over 80%, and why there virtually no homeless people in chinese cities. The number 1 fear for retirees is homelessness. It says something doesn't it? Americans make 4x more than chinese but can't find $500 in an emergency and live paycheck to paycheck. Americans also have a massive homelessness crisis. I can confidently say if I walk down any street in a chinese city Im not going to step in human feces.
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@napobg6842 A huge chunk of the US economy is the financial sector, which while technically advanced doesn't actually contribute much to the real economy. Tell me, why does the average amercian struggle worse than someone in poland or the czech republic to maintain a basic standard of living? Why are most americans dirt broke, living off credit cards and one medical bill away from destitution? If we're defining a country's level of development by quality of life then the US is backsliding badly and is on verge of being called a developing country in some parts.
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all depictions of Qin Shi Huang showed asian features. Get out of here with that conspiracy crap.
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So does china. Numerous times US spy satellites have been blinded by chinese land based lasers.
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@Seastallion other than a reliance on foreign petrochemicals, china is pretty self sufficiant. Sure people might have to eat less meat because the soy used to grow pigs can't be imported, but thats hardly a critical problem. Financially china is better off than the US because unlike the US, china actually still has forex reserves and a central bank that hasn't lowered interest rates to 0, which is arguably whats wrecking havoc in westerner economies for over a decade. Debt in china is mostly demoninated in chinese currency and is owed between chinese state owned enterprises to other chinese state institutions which is like saying the left hand owing money to the right hand is bad.
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@Seastallion further more the US needs the global supply chain to stay upright because most of the US economy is service based. Without imported foreign goods half of the US economy evaporates overnight.
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@Seastallion Look at a graph of what comprises most of the US economy. Its services. AKA. Retail, insurance, ect. (and NOT manufacturing) but things that require manufactured inputs from abroad to function. This is why the US runs a trade deficit with practically every country in the world. Being a relatively small percentage of the US economy doesn't mean a massive segment of the US economy ISN'T reliant on a trade bottleneck. The things that the US does manufacture are heavily dependent on a globalised supply chain, much of which is situated in china. Consider the fact that all this flimflam about 'decoupling' with china has yeilded an INCREASE in US deficits with china goes to show how incapable the US is at actually being fully self sufficient. Fact of the matter is, without overseas supply chains the US stops functioning. Just like when the US couldnt even retool make its own facemasks at the start of covid19 for nearly a month. Lol for every flood theres a wildfire, tornado or hurricane in the US that does just as much damage. Thats part and parcel of being a continent sized country with a large population. If a seasonal flood with at most a few hundred dead is the worst you can point to. You're pretty desperate. As for living on borrowed time. China isn't the country thats stuck at 0% interest rates with no means to draw down it's spending, China isn't the country where half the people think the head of state is illegitimate and 1/3 openly wants secession. China isn't the country that can't even agree on something as simple as vaccinations and facemasks during a pandemic. If Covid has proven anything its that the US is projecting all of it's own insecurities onto china. China can manage its demographic issues because the solutions are technological. The US is screwed because all it's problems stem from a system that stopped working for 20+ years.
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Between the antiship ballistic missiles and the fact that the US will be blind from having its satellites shot down, US carriers are going to be staying well away from the chinese coast making them about as effective as guam..
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Yeah good luck flying B52s anywhere near the chinese mainland during a war. The handful of B2s wouldn't be able to do much.
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@chriswilton9976 short of nuclear weapons, the US would run out of missiles long before china runs out of things to bomb. Especially when you have no intel and are firing blindly at mobile targets deep inside enemy territory.
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@Dog.soldier1950 logistics? Considering the war is happening within spitting distance of the chinese mainland, its the US thats going to have logistics issues.
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@Dog.soldier1950 The vast majority of food imports into china is for animal feed and not for human consumption, if push comes to shove people eating less meat during wartime isn't world ending. Oil can still be imported via pipelines from russia and central asia. Not to mention china does sit atop the a large amount of shale which it's opting not to exploit because of the environmental impact.. which again, in a war becomes secondary.
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The US looks to be getting dragged into another middle eastern quagmire over Yemen and Gaza, Notice how mainstream media has basically stopped reporting on ukraine now.
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I dont know. watching the US completely flounder in its Covid response and seeing the US military focus more on critical race theory than warfighting tells a different story.
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@CMAzeriah Its really telling that some in the west still think Russia could be won over when you literally still have missiles pointed at them and regularly talk about overthrowing their government. Yeah. dissolve NATO and let Russia invade the rest of ukraine then you might have a point. Its as if you think Russians don't have any agency and are just pawns in your chessgame.
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@CMAzeriah there are tons of easier places to invade that don't belong to a major nuclear power. If china wanted land it'd start trying to absorb something like Laos, Kirgizstan or Myanmar which nobody likes or cares about. The very idea that china which is set to have a shrinking population in coming decades needs more land is pretty silly. Historically Russia threats always came from the west not from the east and that isn't going to change any time soon.
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the US does not have satellite based weapons. and rods from god only exist in science fiction. Low earth orbit is extremely fragile and it doesn't take much to knock out every satellite via the kessler syndrome.
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All military semiconductors need to be large for radiation hardening meaning 20 yearold chips still get used on cutting edge hardware.
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yes, when the Russia/China/Iran/DPRK alliance finally defeat the west, then they might turn on each other.
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To jam radio communications you'd need a stronger emitter to overpower the signal. Yeah. good luck getting a jammer into the taiwan straits once the shooting starts. And unlike what you see in the movies, analogue signals can't be hacked. As for combat experience. There isn't a naval officer alive in the US that has fought a naval war. And if you've read the latest news about the lack of combat readiness of the rank and file.
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@wastelandswimmer Japan is the perfect example. When the IJA marched through asia in the WW2 and forcefully industrialised regions (almost solely for its war effort) that is european style colonialism. When Japan came back in the 80s and invested money, it was doing so peacefully, which is what china is doing in africa now. The reason why imperial japan's actions were seen as so barbaric was becuase it was european style colonialism done by non-europeans. The reason why the third Reich's actions were seen as so barbaric was because it was european style colonialism done TO other europeans.
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@puraLusa It might have more to do with the recent civil war more than anything else.
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considering all this new tech from the US is all made by for profit companies, good chance its just vapourware designed to make a quick buck.
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the US also sucks at asymetrical warfare. Stuff like cyber attacks, psychological warfare or even handling a pandemic.
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@danielgloyd4529 in a pure build-off china will dominate the US in sheer numbers, china currently has 20x the shipbuilding capacity of the US largely because the US has outsourced most of its industrial base. Give it 30 years almost every ship in the US navy will be retired from age and the US will lack the shipyards to replace them at a fast enough rate to compete.
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'liberalism' has becoming an ossified ideology onto itself. The 'NPC' meme best exemplifies this
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@CedarHunt lasers currently could barely shoot down a subsonic drone because you need to keep a pinpoint focus on target for several seconds before it can destory it. Given that it takes less than several seconds for a supersonic missile to bridge the gap between the maximum range of a laser. Its simply a non-starter.
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@boogie2025 If the US intends on actually fighting the war and not just giving up 2 months in then yes.
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You forget that china also has a massive network of rivers. Not that rivers make a huge amount of difference once railways became a thing.
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@Huajierenmeiluziye the US could not tolerate a world where china was the largest economy so it waged a massive economic/technological/propaganda war against china over the past 7 years. The fact that china hates the US now is almost entirely the fault of the US leadership.
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The US is dispersed around the world and cannot afford to turn its back lest countries like Russia, Iran and North korea see a weakness to exploit. Combined with the abysmal failure of the US in dealing with infrastructure failure at home. A coordinated attack by china and other anti-US beligerants on US infrastructure through cyber, biological and psychological warfare would cause the US to fold in on itself trying to fight on all fronts at once.
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WW2 naval tactics are useless in modern naval warfare. and logistics are far less important when the battlefield is less than 500km from your shores.
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@Quickshot0 Chinese students sent overseas are returning in greater numbers because the environment outside of china has decidely become anti-chinese. chinese graduates in STEM courses in the west cannot get jobs because everyone thinks they're spies and secretly blames them for covid.
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the balance of power is shifting and in 10-20 years the US would lose the ability to defend taiwan.
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You do realise thats a war memorial for the korean war right?
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@movement2contact and what are the chinese? Tyranids?
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@rmar127 Putin wouldn't buy into that deal because the moment China is dealt with, Russia is on the chopping block again, He's been around long enough to know the US' tricks.
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once the war in space goes hot, nobody will have satelllites curtesy of the kessler syndrome.
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The US has nothing to offer Russia except empty promisses and continued meddling in Russian politics. You think the Russians are stupid or something?
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territorial sovereignty supersedes that and the better part of 1.4 billion people will agree.
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@Biba--- They can sign their own defensive pacts or nuclearise their militaries.
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