Bye Taiwan, so long and thanks for all the chipsets.
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If Iran can run the Navy ragged, imagine what India or China can do
So much of the joke is that they won't need to.
唯一的制胜之策就是不参与
Translated to be “The only winning move is not to play.”
China has attained WOPR technology!
妛挧暃椦槞蟐袮閠駲墸壥彁
Someone went on Hacker News today huh
someone replied to my reply in the thread and I remembered this, so posting here - https://lemmy.world/post/50701889/25315013 - ignore or look as you wish, I know your comment above was just a quick thing, but sitll thought I'd link to where I found it since I ran across it again :)
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Man, all this is doing is showing any potential enemies just how fucking toothless the US is. Amazing show.
this. its amazing how quickly he gutted us to the point we are a paper tiger.
It really is incredible. So much carnage in so short a time. We're like 19 months into his 48 month term. It almost seems planned.
It was. That's why Putin wanted him to be president.
The destruction of the US was always the goal.
And yet we still spend so much freaking money on our military.
I’d argue it’s going to military contractors who are spending a lot on “research”. Grifters all the way down.
Especially that dork who named his companies after Tolkien things and practically has almost all the world's cameras.
Dude is literally acting like the manchurian candidate
Manchurian Candidate: (intelligently acts on codewords after sophisticated brainwashing)
Donchurian Candidate: "Oh hey Pooty how's it hangin. Sabotage an American institution? Another one? How much money? Sounds like a deal. A great deal. Biglyest deal."
I don't think I've lived to see a president who wasn't accused of this
But very few had such obvious clandestine obligations to foreign adversaries and sociopathic individuals.
Thats hunny to his ears.
Leaders around the world are treating the US military defeat against Iran as a given and are planning for a future that does not include the US in any decisive role.
The current response of the nations in the Middle East is telling: plans are being drawn up and security cooperations being forged, while pretty much ignoring the US altogether.
Its likely a precursor for what we’ll see happen with nations surrounding the Sea of Japan and South China Sea in the upcoming months.
The largest, most powerful nation on earth has literally botched this war. Militarily, politically and economically. And as a result we’re now witnessing the US led global world order unravel completely. I think we’ve entered a very scary time.
botched
It was never winnable. No western nation would have won against Iran. The war is the dumbest war to begin with because of how unwinnable it was. Why are people acting as if Trump could have outsmarted Iran at any point ever? No NATO military leader would have won. The best choice for anyone is to just not start a war with Iran. A smart leader would have just not bombed Iran. No smart leader could win this war. That's how stupid the war is. The smartest NATO leader right now, if they were fighting a war with Iran, would admit defeat.
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The US hasn't won a war since WWIi, and our current leaders are literally the dumbest people who have ever managed a government. Nobody fears, or cares about America any more.
Everything is actually going according to plan.
No one expects China to invade Taiwan because an American aircraft carrier has left the region. But the carrier’s absence gives the Chinese another opportunity to show its strength, said Bryan Clark, a former Navy submariner who is a defense analyst at the Hudson Institute.
Uh, fucking, I DO!
How many years and how fortuitous do the circumstances have to get before people stop insisting an invasion is imminent?
There's an enormous amount of value in China and Taiwan remaining friendly trading partners. Westerners refuse to acknowledge this.
It would be indeed incredibly stupid for Xi to try to invade Taiwan. There's the economic cost and there's a real possibility that he could wind up in the same situation Trump and Putin are currently in. Lots of those pesky drones creating a stalemate situation.
But authoritarians are being really stupid lately, so we can't discount the possibility of Xi being as stupid as Trump and Putin.
China is the one superpower who isn't wasting their resources on a pointless war, and are investing heavily in infrastructure and their people, and their manufacturing base for EVERYTHING is unparalleled.
They are taking over the world without firing a shot. Why would they screw that up just to take a tiny island that is no more than a symbol. Let the Westerners think they have some sort of power over them, they know the real truth.
You are saying that like the US and Russia weren't in way better positions before their respective wars.
What the commenter you're replying to is saying, is that we can't trust dumbfuck dictators to not make the stupid decision of invading someone else, no matter how idiotic it might be.
Why would they screw that up just to take a tiny island that is no more than a symbol.
Dictators have startet wars for way less.
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The point of having 11 carrier is that you can always have several of them in maintenance while others are in operation and still keep a reserve. It's a massive mismanagement of assets to somehow have carriers running ragged and yet still need to pull carrier from other commitments.
Can't even be competently evil. Yee yee ass Wana be evil empire.
well, it might be smart to take taiwan now, even with the worldwide upset this would cause.
There is a good chance that the west has no answer to it.
it might be smart to take taiwan now
Or just peacefully integrate socio-economically over the next 50 years. You kill a lot less people that way
China takes Taiwan - ram prices will go through the roof - don't understand how trumptydumpty's tech friends allowed him to do this. Oh well, the world may become a better place with China in the captain's seat; Xi at least seems more intelligent and stable than Trump.
China takes Taiwan - ram prices will go through the roof - don’t understand how trumptydumpty’s tech friends allowed him to do This
Because USA tech friends want that: they want the trillion profits from squeezing the worker class out of the means of compute. Once we are all slaves we will pay back the dividends tenfold. They don't care about China or Taiwan, they only care about China's and Taiwan's billionaire class, which is with them anyways.
Additionally, if China takes Taiwan, they'll be able to exert heavy influence on Korea and Japan, as a huge part of their import/export flows through Taiwan Strait. Might be able to get the countries to cut down on diplomatic relations with the West, perhaps even getting rid of a few of USA's military bases in Japan and South Korea
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Iran has become a black hole that also slaps the shit out of the Orange Jackass. How multifaceted.
Exposed flank. These guys are not MI (military intelligence), they are AI (alternative intelligence). Oh, stinky pete what have you wrought?
American ally-ship increasingly loses value as the Donald Administration progresses.
I wonder what the next president will do to try and win it back.
Latin American dictators seem to be lining up behind him and Rubio like ducklings.
I think the next president is going to inherit an absolute rogue's gallery of "friends"
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