This is why Andy the Wumao gets paid and we don't. I know we have some members here from People's Republic of Australia, do we have any members from the Republic of Australia too?
If this is true, I am impressed at how badly Trump is screwing things up and he doesn’t even realize itThe US is now the enemy of the west
Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world
These vassal are getting uppity these days, the US should teach them some manners.
My daughter's art teacher is living in Republic of Australia. Fun fact her husband is Korean minority ethnicity with his mum from South Korea and dad from North Korea, met and married in Dandong across the Yalu River so for them they'll probably be like "oh no not this shit again".
This is why Andy the Wumao gets paid and we don't. I know we have some members here from People's Republic of Australia, do we have any members from the Republic of Australia too?
This is why Andy the Wumao gets paid and we don't. I know we have some members here from People's Republic of Australia, do we have any members from the Republic of Australia too?
It could be intentional -- break up US empire so the next administration cannot rebuild it even if it wants to.If this is true, I am impressed at how badly Trump is screwing things up and he doesn’t even realize it
challenge accepted.
If Trump could fuck over majority white countries like Denmark, Canada, and Ukraine, why do the Wanwanese think they are so special? You literally are just Chinese with a propensity to cuck. You know what happens when dumb red necks can’t bully the PRC? They look for the next best thing to take their anger’s out on. Like Chinese American grandmas. Good luck finding someone who looks more punchable than the DPP.
LOL it's absolutely meaningless to engage with intellectual dishonesty where you can just straight up ignore plain, cited evidence directly contradictory to your obviously mistaken beliefs and waive it off as a "throwaway line", as if it didn't say what it actually says, or perhaps as if it doesn't even exist, even though I provided the working link. That's like the standard MAGAt talking about "alternative facts" and various other spindoctored garbage to avoid having to deal with reality.Why didn't he? Was he weak like Putin that he was losing and had to resort to nukes?
A single throwaway sentence doesn't prove much. Let me help you with a very simple ORBAT:
You can also look at Linebacker II which went even worse for the US which had an abysmal 6 to 27 kill ratio by their own numbers.
And why restrict it to air to air? If you go by total aircraft loss ratios, 10k vs. 100 isn't a good look no matter how you slice it.
How is it semantics? It's a huge difference - it is basically what Russia was doing in Donbass in 2014-2022, vs what Russia did in 2022 onwards. Any intellectualy honest person would understand that Russian actions in 2014-2022 are different than Russian actions post 2022.
PAVN wasn't fighting in North Vietnam on its own territory as an insurgency. It was fighting conventionally at the North-South border and projecting power into South Vietnam with gray zone warfare. This is very important because an insurgency relies on local support and logistics. South Vietnam was not the territory of North Vietnam - it was a sovereign state governed by the Republic of Vietnam.
The Taliban was fighting in its own territory as an insurgency. Completely incomparable situation.
You also said something else:
Yet it lost the Battle of Khe Sanh, a 40k on 40k conventional battle, with more casualties (2.5-3.5k KIA vs. 2.4k KIA) and losing Khe Sanh Combat Base. Losing more soldiers + losing territory + losing stated objectives is an unambiguous loss.
It wasn't because they didn't care about it either, they tried to retake Khe Sahn 5 years later in Operation Dewey Canyon II. The end result: total collapse of their offensive and the US-South Vietnamese forces losing in a 1:5 KIA ratio.
I must keep pointing this out to you since you keep trying to reduce Vietnam to a counterinsurgency war and even proclaimed here that it was the insurgency that wore the US down as you wrote here:
The North Vietnamese military did not 'go into hiding' and fight 'rare force on force engagements, which it overwhelmingly lost' if it shot down 10k planes while losing around 100 and fought multiple 10k+ on 10k+ conventional battles with 1:1 or better KIA ratios without losing territory.