Also the one saying "How far back should we go? Who started the first fire?".I'm often pleasantly surprised by the comment section in these articles. The top comment about Newton's Principia is particularly funny.
Also the one saying "How far back should we go? Who started the first fire?".I'm often pleasantly surprised by the comment section in these articles. The top comment about Newton's Principia is particularly funny.
You're saying that China won't nuke the US after the US nukes China because then the US would nuke China? What sort of logic is that?No one is going to believe such bluffing of China. China would not dare to do a nuclear retaliation strike against the US because China will be nuked back by the US. Besides, Taiwan is right in front of China while the US is far away from China's nuclear arsenal. Taiwan can strike China far quicker than China's retaliation strike reaches the US.
The funny part is that the USA might actually be dumb enough to try this, given with all the tent cities and with all those stores closing down fast, something is bound to go horribly wrong sooner or lateFunny that you mentioned this, as I'm rewatching The Purge, one of my favorite series of films and because life imitates art, showing us the trajectory of American "greatness"... The experiment of freedom and democracy has high chances of failure, but things get really interesting (and entertaining for us folks on the opposite side of the Pacific) when this precarious social experiment is mixed with plenty of guns, massive racial tension and inequality, a collapsing economy and fentanyl....
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You're doing it again. I understand you don't mean to promote a Sino Russian alliance or spread Russian narratives but that is nevertheless what you are doingI have no interest in promoting Russian Chinese alliance or whatever it is that you think the purpose of this was. My argument is that the US is willing to go to war with China because it can get its vassals in the region to do the bleeding. All it needs to do is provide equipment & money, which sure, it's expensive, but it's nothing the US can't afford with its $900 billion military budget.
Ukraine is a great example of how the US operates. The country itself is bankrupt, decimated, much of its population fled or drafted, with little economy & industry beyond what aid money is able to sustain. If not for NATO, it'd have surrendered a long time ago because what would be the benefit of fighting on? But it's not surrendering, it's continuing to bleed, because NATO commands it to do so and whispers of victory and glory.
The same "deal" will be given to Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, India, etc. as long as they take up the fight against China. And what I'm saying is that half of that list are dumb enough to take it, because their societies have been so infiltrated by Western media and influence that they think it's their duty to take up arms. This is the danger that China faces - not that it'll face the US, but that it'll face all of its vassals first, long before the US shows up as the "final boss".
In no scenario where China exhausts itself fighting some combination of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines, is it a victory, because even if you win, you lose - your cities bombed, your infrastructure destroyed, your military weakened. All the while the US can sweep in after the fact to prevent China from gaining any rewards (ie occupation / surrender of the above countries) from the victory.
In such situations the only way to win is to not fight, because it costs the US very little to run these proxy wars, when compared to the horrors of war that will be visited upon China and the US's proxies.
China would dare. That's absurd to think no one will think the US isn't responsible. That's why the US isn't going sneak in nukes to Taiwan. If Taiwan used nukes first, China has the right to nuke it out of existence which it can being a small land mass. Are the Taiwanese that dumb not to know that? Is Taiwan going to have a thousand nukes? No, it won't have enough to stop China hence why they wouldn't because they'll be nuked out of existence.No one is going to believe such bluffing of China. China would not dare to do a nuclear retaliation strike against the US because China will be nuked back by the US. Besides, Taiwan is right in front of China while the US is far away from China's nuclear arsenal. Taiwan can strike China far quicker than China's retaliation strike reaches the US.
China would dare. That's absurd to think no one will think the US isn't responsible. That's why the US isn't going sneak in nukes to Taiwan. If Taiwan used nukes first, China has the right to nuke it out of existence which it can being a small land mass. Are the Taiwanese that dumb not to know that? Is Taiwan going to have a thousand nukes? No, it won't have enough to stop China hence why they wouldn't because they'll be nuked out of existence.
I love how the US side thinks like terrorists. Taiwan will never have enough nukes to provide any tactical value so they only can be used as terror weapons to discourage China from attack. Taiwanese don't think that way because they side with the US who cares about human rights...? Like how you hear Taiwanese think striking the Three Gorges Dam hoping to kill millions of civilians along the way is a victory to them?

There's no such thing as a war with Japan that lasts a week. Even if you defeat their navy in a week, you'd have to invade or embargo them into a surrender. Perfect opportunity for the US to create a new Ukraine through submarine warfare and getting the Japanese to fight house to house.You're doing it again. I understand you don't mean to promote a Sino Russian alliance or spread Russian narratives but that is nevertheless what you are doing
China is not Russia. Repeat that to yourself until you believe it. Their capabilities are on different planets. One only has to look at gdp figures to deduce this. China could engage Japan, India, and the Philippines in a war at once and it would be over in a week with a decisive Chinese victory and minimal losses. By portraying it as weak and incapable of dispatching even US vassals without great loss, you are feeding the idea that it is in exactly the same situation and power dynamic as Russia. It isn't. And believing that it is leads to enormously erroneous and dangerous conclusions, like that China should involve itself in the Russo Ukrainian war.