Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "2022 Chinese defense spending is in. Has it reached US spending?" video.

@darkbrightnorth Chinese economy - 24 trillion dollars, while US economy - 22 trillion, part of them are simple money-printing, while China is making the product. EU economy - 20 trillion. Europe depends on Chinese labor, China depends on Western rights of property.
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@jacknelson7477 the history of Russian state repeats itself with enviable regularity
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High speed railways couldn't be rietable
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They could invade Taiwan even withoit having superiority over the US army. US probably wouldn't be even involved in this conflict - China and America are countries, that have nukes. There is no possibility that they would go into a war against each other. US would sanction China - Chinese economy was built as a labor market for Western companies, US and EU would simply remove their factories into India, Mexica and Africa, and China would see the sanctions and isolation. There wouldn't be a war between the China and Western World, so - China have opportunity to invade Taiwan in any time, this possibility isn't depends on the level of Chinese army compared to American army.
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@Spartan-jg4bf US could be involved undirectly, but this don't denies my thesis - China don't need superiority in entire millitary over US
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@Spartan-jg4bf Russians have problems with logistics, because Putin was thinking, that the morale of Ukrainian nation is low, that Ukrainians are supressed by their government, and he would take Ukraine in 3 days. This is why Russians didn't prepared supplies and didn't built infrastructure for supplies before they invaded Ukraine. Also Russians don't have numerical advantage - Ukrainian land army is 160 thousand soldiers, while Russia had ~ 120 thousand in the first day on invasion. The attacker side don't have numerical advantage and don't have logistics. Don't forget, that Russian and Ukrainian armies have the same level of training and equipment, while the attacker side always suffers more casualities, than defensive side. There is no wonderful, that Russian invasion slowed, but this don't denies, that Russian invasion at now goes very successful for Russia - they took Kherson and encercled many Ukrainian cities, cutting off Ukrainian army from supplies. Also, Ukrainians have morale boom, while Russians don't want to fight against brother nation, where they have relatives. Russians at now would reinforce and supply forces, and later would strike the second punch. US still didn't interveve - they have played role, that goes closely to zero in conflict to this day
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@Spartan-jg4bf and Russia will not have to occupy Ukraine. There are negotiations going on in Belarus now - so Yanukovych came to them - this is the same dude whom the Ukrainians overthrew as a result of the revolution in 2014. Russia will consolidate Crimea and Donbass, and there will be a friendly regime in Ukraine, so the order will be maintained by pro-Russian collaborators - there are enough of them in Ukraine even during the war. But Ukraine would be independent - all Empires someday collapsing, Russia already have historical experience of Imperial collapse in 1917 and 1991. This collapses of Russian state had the same reasons, that Putin's Russia have - misery, corruption, uneffectivness of economy, "The prison of peoples". Ukraine would be independent and Russia would be free and democratic someday, this nightmare would end
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Yeah, US strategy of international millitarian influence - no troops, but supplies in empty bases all across the World. This is the huge part of American millitary budget. For example all weaponary, that American army used during the Iraq invasion in 2003 was prepared for a long time before the war started. For years before.
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@grixjay8620 you can replace factories into India, Africa and Asia. Chinese labor already isn't such cheap
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And time
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China have much stronger land army, than US. And more available for service pooulation. China have smaller numbers only in aircraft. If we trust official data. Factually, Russia have numerical army without having money in defense budget. China is stronger than US in terms of economy, and have more population. So, probably China have the strongest millitary in the World, stronger than US
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@warbringer5554 are you an millitary expert in terms of the quality of Chinese army? They have machineguns from wood? The equipment and vehicles aren't such important as the quality of training, morale and preparation. Good examples - WW2. Great Britain won the air battle against Germany in 1940 by using quality of training, radars, new tech in pilot equipment and governmental management - massive production of aircrafts growth in just 2 months. In the start of the battle Britain had 800 planes, while Germany had 3000. Good example is Soviet Union, Finland and Germany. USSR on 22nd june 1941 had more tanks, than entire World combined - 24 thousand. Germany had 6 thousand tanks. But Soviet army was crushed because of low morale and poor traininig, because of bad management. The war proves the loyality of population for their government. Stalin was killing Russian peasants by hunger for industrialization in 1932-33. Stalin was providing massive purges. The life standarts of the Soviet population fell during the rule of Stalin for more investements into economy. And when the war started, Soviet army, that was built on this Russian peasants, simply surrendered without serious resistance and fight. The French soldiers in 1940 were lions compared to poor, shameful and low Soviet resistance. The governmental system effectivity is one of the major factors of millitary success, because the army is built on masses of simple people. And the loyality of people to their government is a major factor in the army. The Napoleon main weapon was the morale and loyality of his army. The Chinese nation at now have morale boom - 30 years ago China was the poorest country, and in just 30 years they have seen big economical growth. Chinese population at now fully suppourt its government and politicians. While Western society at now living in the morale crisis. Westerners aren't moraly prepared for a war. Look at Chinese patriotism and protests in Canada, BLM...
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