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The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] -2 points 11 months ago (8 children)

That's right, keep spending to play catch up with the US... You'll end up just like the Soviet Union, with things like Buran that flew once.

Billions wasted in this effort.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Ah, so china shouldn't even bother with arming and defending itself. It should just roll over for us huh?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    Dude, the army they had in the Korean war, the one where some of them had shoes? That fought the competent american military to a tie.

    'Keeping up' would require severe head trauma.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    With 80% of their buildings destroyed and cut off from the rest of the world?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Of Korea's, and China wasn't in it from the start.

    If you'll look at a map, you can see it was roughly a tiebetween militaries.

    Obviously the Americans did a dhit ton of atrocities; those atrocities did not contribute to their military success; however limited

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm saying, if arming yourself prevents that kind horrible outcome, you would. Even if it would be a "tie" if you didn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    And I'm saying they're already well past parity. I do not think the us military in 2026, with all its fancy toys, would necessarily beat the us military of the 1950s.

    I absolutely think the Chinese military in 2026 would turn the Chinese military of immediately-post-civil-war to a fine red mist.

    The level of both command and doctrinal dysfunction in the american military system, to say nothing of capitalist appropriation, has left it almost entirely a machine for bluster and bravado. They're raiding literal god damn fishing boats to feel like big men, for fuck's sake!

    I'll spare you the particulars, but even before the trump officer purges and general 'anti woke' policies, the politics of the pentagon have not been meritocratic for decades, and even before the 'anti woke' recruitment policies they were not picking the cream of the crop in any respect. Even then they weren't meeting replacement quotas. It's worse now; I can't imagine by how much.

    Stories I've heard leave me with a sliver of hope that if the us attempts to deploy nuclear weapons; few or none of them will have been adequately maintained for both the missile and the warhead to function.

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