Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and other Related Conflicts in the Middle East (read the rules in the first post)

FriedRiceNSpice

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FriedButter said:
Why would China get militarily involved in the first place. There is no viable logistical path to support any foreign adventures into Iran. Neither is there any large weight for Iranian energy to be part of China energy security. Any pacific conflict will freeze sea borne trading for the duration of the conflict. The only reliable lines of energy will be flowing out of Russia.
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Direct military involvement is out of the question. But with regards to energy security, can't China in a pinch quickly build pipelines from Iran through Pakistan into Xinjiang? Or would the geography make such a project too difficult?
 
FriedButter

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FriedRiceNSpice said:
Direct military involvement is out of the question. But with regards to energy security, can't China in a pinch quickly build pipelines from Iran through Pakistan into Xinjiang? Or would the geography make such a project too difficult?
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Pakistan internal security is like a block of Swiss cheese. They can’t even protect Chinese engineers. How can you expect them to protect an +1,000 mile long pipeline to China?
 
FriedButter

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FriedRiceNSpice said:
In an emergency, couldn't China deploy paramilitary forces / PAP as security? If Russian energy was insufficient to meet Chinese demands, what other plausible options would there be?
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And what makes you think Pakistan is going to agree to allow China send thousands of armed personnel, which will also be vulnerable to terrorism. It won’t be long before something along the line of “Chinese soldiers massacre dozens of Pakistani civilians” gets touted from the propaganda machine across Pakistan. After an failed terrorist attack.
 
FriedRiceNSpice

FriedRiceNSpice

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FriedButter said:
And what makes you think Pakistan is going to agree to allow China send thousands of armed personnel, which will also be vulnerable to terrorism. It won’t be long before something along the line of “Chinese soldiers massacre dozens of Pakistani civilians” gets touted from the propaganda machine across Pakistan. After an failed terrorist attack.
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Offer to build infrastructure, assist with economic development of Pakistan. Promise a few other things that Pakistan really wants. And isn't Pakistani media heavily state-controlled?
 
FriedButter

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FriedRiceNSpice said:
Offer to build infrastructure, assist with economic development of Pakistan. Promise a few other things that Pakistan really wants. And isn't Pakistani media heavily state-controlled?
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They aren’t selling out their national sovereignty and risking public backlash by having thousands of Chinese soldiers enforcing Chinese martial law on Pakistani soil and civilians. No matter how much you try to sugar coat it when the other side are experts in propaganda and regime change operations.
 
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iBBz

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Has the carrier steering and dropping an F-18 incident been discussed here? I don't buy this story. I think the Yemenis shot it down and the US had to find a cope story.

Can carriers really steer hard enough for planes to start dropping from them? Is the carrier crew not trained for such event? I mean there has to be some sort of standard practice to keep planes in place when operating at sea on a moving platform, especially when waging war and especially by the most experienced carrier operating military. Also how the hell can a carrier dodge a missile? Carriers can dogfight now? Non of that story makes sense.
 
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