Comments by "hugh mungus" (@hughmungus2760) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3.  @williammostert5595  somehow I don't see china or russia setting up apartied states and doing genocides like the Belgians.
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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6.  @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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  7.  @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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  8. 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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  9. Compare chinese response to natural disasters to US response and you'll know which side gets back into action first.
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  10. maybe in the fever dreams of someone who reads too many Tom clancy novels.
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  11. 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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  12.  @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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  13.  @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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  14. Because wallstreet capitalists own the US government and would never allow most of their wealth to evaporate.
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  15.  @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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  16. Sure, if Italy was the industrial heart of the world and largest economy in PPP.
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  17.  @NeoZondix  why does it matter? the fact is US and turkish troops are occupying parts of syria illegally.
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  18.  @NeoZondix  The Nazis occupied most of europe but didn't formally annex anyone. I guess that makes it okay then?
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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21.  @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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  22. this would imply the US needs to pre-emptively attack which would be even harder to justify.
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  23. 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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  24. Confucian bureaucracy vs neoliberal billionaire feudalism.
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  25.  @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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  26. @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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30. 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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  31.  @puraLusa  individual employers might be racist, thats not the same as an apartied state.
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  32. Considering what the US is doing for Israel, nobody buys that statement.
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  33.  @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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  34.  @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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  35. 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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  36.  @makinabetterplace  China spends just over 2% of GDP on defense, vs the US which spends over 3%. Talk about projection.
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  37. You're assuming the ones in charge in china care about money. Its about power.
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  38. 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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  39.  @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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  40.  @cyberfunk3793  technology transfers for advanced weaponry. Iran is salivating at the idea of domestically manufacturing Su35s and S400s
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  41.  @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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  42.  @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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  43.  @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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49.  @NeoZondix  Syria for starters.
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  50.  @NeoZondix  The US and Turkey
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