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[GulfLander]

"Mexico Studies China Tariffs in Bid to Strike Trump Deal
President Claudia Sheinbaum Tries to Avoid 25% Tariffs"

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(But the 25% tariff seem a go, see below. Wont this action just show "weakness"? Tho US really hav big leverage vs Mex?)
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"President Donald Trump said Thursday that 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico would go into effect Tuesday, alongside yet another 10% layer of duties on China following one that went into effect this month.

In a post on his Truth Social app, Trump said the tariffs were needed to combat the continued flow of illicit drugs into the United States.[...]"

(Another new 10% tariff by Trump vs CN?)

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1895286518119571919

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1895164792547222011

 

[siegecrossbow]

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lol.

 

[jwnz]

Yes, wondering whether China sent SSN during the exercise ... my guess is YES .. also wondering whether any Collins were in the water watching, my guess is NO .. they were unprepared ... heck I think NZ navy were better prepared even significantly far away and weaker

I believe the target is Aussie and not NZ. NZ navy is too small and weak to be considered, and importantly NZ is not hostile to China

Indeed we have a permanent undersea naval asset in Samoa, that shows commitment.

 

[GodRektsNoobs]

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Peter zeihan still at it...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1894717856576651550

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What I find really interesting is that while Peter Zeihan is mentioned quite often on the Chinese side of internet - especially in context of Trump, accelerationism, and dark enlightenment, I haven't seen anyone mention his rabid sinophobia. This is especially in contrast to people like Mike Pompeo, Marco Rubio etc. Is there a particular reason why this is the case? Really strange.

 

[iewgnem]

What I find really interesting is that while Peter Zeihan is mentioned quite often on the Chinese side of internet - especially in context of Trump, accelerationism, and dark enlightenment, I haven't seen anyone mention his rabid sinophobia. This is especially in contrast to people like Mike Pompeo, Marco Rubio etc. Is there a particular reason why this is the case? Really strange.

Because he's a nobody?

 

[iewgnem]

"Mexico Studies China Tariffs in Bid to Strike Trump Deal
President Claudia Sheinbaum Tries to Avoid 25% Tariffs"

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(But the 25% tariff seem a go, see below. Wont this action just show "weakness"? Tho US really hav big leverage vs Mex?)

Yeah and if you read the article, its the same as China "studied" letting Elon buy TikTok, as in Americans brought it up and the other side said nothing.

Also Trump folded again and pushed Canada/Mexio tariff to April for nothing in return, now that's showing weakness lol

 

[zyklon]

What the impact of Australian aging SSK Collins submarines (6) to the equation?

According to a fairly recent

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, which is owned by the Australian government, from November 2024, of Australia's six Collins class submarines, only one boat is fully operational at the moment:

The Australian Navy has been left with just one fully operational submarine as the rest of its aging Collins-class fleet undergoes urgent repairs or waits to complete scheduled upgrades.

Three boats were determined to be non-operational and in need of major overhauls thanks to severe corrosion, but things apparently aren't proceeding smoothly due to labor issues:

Since then, workers began strike action at the government-owned ASC maintenance and sustainment facility in Adelaide as they continued their long-running dispute seeking pay parity with ASC workers in Western Australia.

From the sounds of the ABC report, the three remaining Collins boats are probably in rough shape too, and only one is reasonably deployable, likely due to deferred maintenance and/or simply inadequate planned, yet completed maintenance taking a toll on overall mission readiness across the board.

If only one boat is reasonably operational, and considering the overall age of the design and systems, the Collins isn't going to add much to the RAN, if at all.

Perhaps the Collins' greatest impact on the Australian military is its knack for affecting budgets elsewhere, considering what

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The LOTE will keep the Collins Class submarine operationally capable and available into the 2040s, supporting the transition to Australia's nuclear-powered submarines.

• Budget: $4.3 - $6.4 billion
• Timeframe: First LOTE scheduled for mid-2026
• Industry: more than 1500 jobs
• Location: Osborne South Australia (LOTE) and Henderson Western Australia (sustainment)

Moreover, not only does the Collins class lack any sort of AIP, it has been plagued with problems -- if not cursed as a program -- over the decades, and may or may not be reasonably serviceable into the 2040s, or even the 2030s, at which point it may already be fairly obsolescent by regional standards.

 

[Iron Man]

Stop coping, it has been days and no one even bothers to read the responses anymore. From a k/d ratio POV, which americans love to tout when faced with wars they lost, US forces got clapped in those specific engagements. From a wholistic POV, which is the one that matters, the US lost decisively in those wars. It failed to achieve their primary objective, which is: win, and impose our will on the enemy. Accept and move on

Really, why are you even responding to my post then? The whole point was that the US keeps losing wars despite winning battles, such as Vietnam and Afghanistan. There is nothing to "accept", this was my premise.

Says: "isn't a throwaway line" proceeds to name a throwaway number.

For reference, that's less tanks and substantially less APC than the PVA used in Korea. You know, the famous armored blitz of the PVA.

It's also around what AFU lost in Bakhmut or Kursk. A single battle in a just 3 year long war.

Per definition a throwaway number.

Wait, so what is a standing army by your definition, then? Whatever number that is just slightly higher than whatever Afghanistan had in 2001? ROFLMAO

Jesus what it this source usage? Might as well select a DPRK museum of the "war to resist imperialist aggression" as the authorative voice on how well the KPA performed and how high Kim Il Sung's balls should be lifted.

Unlike the DPRK in the US there are fact checkers, on both sides of the political aisle, especially for official government sites like .mil ones. If you think this one is lying you are welcome to present evidence to the contrary, but you dismissing a site as biased and lying just because you as a random internet general don't like what it says means less than nothing.

If they were so vulnerable to small arms fire, it reveals really poor doctrine. Aircraft should never be unsupported in a way mere small arms fire or manpads can kill 1000s of them... It sounds like weird cope tbh because US tactics should not be that bad and not improve across such a long war.

Either way they lost a staggering amount of aircraft and that's what counts. Resulting in conventional defeat. Because 10k aircraft is defintely no throwaway number, even if half are helicopters and cargo planes. In fact, the latter are more expensive and should almost never be lost in combat by a competent army. Russia has for example lost around 3-5 cargo planes (1 loaded with Ukrainian prisoners in either a perfidy incident from Ukraine or a Russian false flag) in the whole war.

Yeah it's really just too bad that US generals in Vietnam were clearly dumber than your random internet general self; they should have taken combat training from you. You could have taught them real lessons on how to not get shot at in combat zones. LOL

 

[JohnnyD]

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[GodRektsNoobs]

Because he's a nobody?

He is the major backer of Trump, so he isn't a nobody. Otherwise, the Chinese internet would not mention him at all.

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