Correct. Just a few days US was planning this extraction mission and we were discussing on this forum how absurd that idea is. That aligns more with this reality than the 'pilot rescue' narrative.
2026 Iran War Strategy and Analysis
- Thread starter plawolf
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If the world economy tanks, it is not necessarily problematic for China. So long as China's decrease is slower/less than everybody else, China is still going faster and better. Everything is relative, one can win in a recession just like in a boom.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll take a punch to the gut that doubles me over if it means my enemy takes a bullet to the head.
Yeah, it was actually the global financial crisis in 2008 that allowed China to overtake the US in energy consumption and manufacturing production soon afterward by 2010, for the first time in history. The US's real economy never fully recovered since.
FriedRiceNSpice
Major
This farmer claims to have taken down a helo with a bolt action- is this plausible? What level of bullet proofing does a Blackhawk cockpit have? If true, then I think he would have successfully one-upped Iraqi farmers taking down Apaches with Ak-47s.
Only the seats and parts of the fuselage are armored against shrapnel and 7.62 rounds, the windshields aren't though offer some sort of anti spall protection
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
No, it doesn't work like that with them. There's different types of people in the world. Victims of the Nanjing Massacre don't want it to happen to anyone ever again and if offered to massacre Japanese women and children in revenge, we would all profusely reject it with disgust. Victims of the Holocaust believe that since they suffered such evil, it's fair that they commit it onto other people and that your score is the number of genocides you commit minus the number of genocides committed unto you; highest number wins!
plawolf
Lieutenant General
About as credible as the Ukraine babushka who downed a Russian drone with a jar of cabbage.
lcloo
Major
One important effect of the current oil shortage is almost every country will feel the spike in production costs and service costs. China stands out as the most resilient country with minimal inflation rates, and as a consequence, made in China products will largely maintain its cost advantage, except international shipping costs, and importer countries' own transportation and distribution costs.
And when cost of other countries' products spike, demand for Chinese products will be even greater.