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tygyg1111

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iewgnem said:
This chart is a classic, not just because of the answers, but also because US and UK numbers added up to 108 and 105, which means only a small percentage of their kids have enough reading comprehension to understand you can pick up to 3 answers, or imagination to imagine more than one option.
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Maybe the other options weren't fit for print, e.g. Onlyfans content creator
 
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Biscuits said:

I don't know where would be the right place to post this, but it's too off topic/speculative for the Ukraine war thread.

An interesting video on how Russia keeps growing it's army while making the war popular.

What I was thinking is that should, or is it even possible for China to emulate the same system? China also has a booming overall economy to pay essentially unlimited money, and fairly populated inner regions that are not as rich compared to the rest of the country.

Basically the drawback of this system is that things can become disorganised and "crowdfunded", but perhaps that is no drawback at all when thinking about infantry whose job is simply to occupy enemy territory and sometimes participate in assaults. Compared to the Russians, the vast majority of China's fighting will be from the air. It seems less viable to give pilots bonuses on the basis of just blowing things up. Or maybe it's also fine?

If US makes a move on Taiwan, China should strive to keep the war popular, and going full Ukraine with forced mobilisation is at least a sure way not to. But while China can rely on home territory boost in Taiwan, the war does not stop there and will encompass all of Asia, in many places China has never invaded or feel ties to in recent history.

China needs a way to create the "people's war" under modern conditions. The Russians might have the right idea with their decentralised, crowd funded and self-replicating (bounty money are reinvested in better kit, so soldiers can hunt even more bounties) model.

Unlike Russia, China's core troops will be very professional (in the sense that they don't post photos of themselves or care about bounties), since these are essentially patriotic career soldiers. But China can also create a huge 2nd echelon of mobiks who are not held to the same standards, these mobiks would only be unleashed in specially designated low intensity combat zones roughly on par with GWOT operations, and in addition to normal salary, they would be paid in bounties.

Unlike with Russia's system, many of China's mobiks do not need to risk themselves at all, as they can be drone operators sitting in safe territory. They would fly cheap(er) crowd funded drone designs and focus on pacifying the enemy's ground forces.

In this way, China would solve the problem of war popularity, of the military losing knowhow retention, and also how to keep occupations going at low cost.
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It would be popular as long as casualties are kept to a minimum, equating to zones possibly less than GWOT intensity. With money oriented 'recruits', as soon as the going gets hard they will start complaining like libs. Social media documentation would be absolutely banned, however some would surely get through. There are a few of these accounts on XHS documenting life as a rear echelon foreign volunteer in the Ukraine war, and these are highly influential to those like them who are seeking to: change the direction of their otherwise mundane lives / make some extra money / escape debt/social issues they have gotten themselves into.
 
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Positions of power would be the Senate, banking magnates, Federal Reserve executives, big venture capitalists, etc., the type that can influence global politics. That position is currently held by Jews. Tech executive is not a position of power. If Indians were in such a position, you wouldn't see threats against India and it's interests.
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tygyg1111 said:
It would be popular as long as casualties are kept to a minimum, equating to zones possibly less than GWOT intensity. With money oriented 'recruits', as soon as the going gets hard they will start complaining like libs. Social media documentation would be absolutely banned, however some would surely get through. There are a few of these accounts on XHS documenting life as a rear echelon foreign volunteer in the Ukraine war, and these are highly influential to those like them who are seeking to: change the direction of their otherwise mundane lives / make some extra money / escape debt/social issues they have gotten themselves into.
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I think most of them are not money oriented, they're people who are lost in life and want to find a bigger purpose. The money is only a strong motivator because it's a proof of approval. A lot of bounty money is simply invested into personal/squad military hardware.

The point is actually to stimulate the society at large, which is why social media documentation is a positive thing.

The best mobilised create a legend that makes others want to follow, and behind every mobilised squad, there is a team of sponsors that provide their equipment. Because their equipment will often be unorthodox, it encourages innovation among said gear sponsors.

If the govt promotes it in the right way, before they know it, they'll have created a self sustaining community of fans and participants who are able to solve the most manpower intensive parts of a war while having great squad knowledge retention and massive morale.

I would say this requires harkening back to a sort of people's war mindset where every person's effort matters, whether professional military or not.
 
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