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

  1.  @NeoZondix  The city still exists today you know.
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  2.  @NeoZondix  thats the 'official' reason the US is still in Syria. Nobody says it because nobody believes the official line.
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  3.  @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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  4.  @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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  5. Its a cheap cruise missile with loitering capability. hardly a waste.
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  6. 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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  7. UN recognised countries only, unless you want to consider Donbass and Crimea Russian.
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  8. 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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  9.  @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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12.  @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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17.  @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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. No. Conscription ended in china for decades.
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31.  @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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  32. then a massive air bombardment campaign with swarms of drones.
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  33.  J. Gaulke  And any satellite is open game to be shot down with ground based kinetic kill vehicles.
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  34.  @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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  35.  @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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  36.  @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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  37.  @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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  38.  @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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  39.  @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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  40. all depictions of Qin Shi Huang showed asian features. Get out of here with that conspiracy crap.
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  41. So does china. Numerous times US spy satellites have been blinded by chinese land based lasers.
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  42.  @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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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47.  @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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  48.  @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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  49.  @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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  50. 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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