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Forehead @ 16:30

For any of China's aircraft, aerodynamic challanges, production line errors, uknown weak spots, vulnerabilities or under performning technology could all be lurking, just waiting to bite China's pilots and the commanders in the arse and as a major factor as experience undoubtly is China's lack of familiarity with real aeriel combat, that's only the start......

There is no news in this video or topics that haven't already been discussed ad nauseam. Further replies to this clickbait video with a bunch of low quality bad takes will be deleted.
 

vincent

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Now, maybe, but the long term effect will be a formalized recognition of these criminals as 'very bad', similar to the modern disdain for Qin Hui and co. Important to give concrete targets, i.e. statues for this sort of thing.
The strong takes concrete actions to eliminate the threats, the weak will take performative actions to make themselves feel better, just like paying old aunts to 打小人 on the street. If you want to indicate the targets, put sanctions on them.
 

pmc

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Deep culture is difficult to change. Mao tried his best to forge Chinese culture into a militaristic, collectivist culture and for a while it worked - see the Korean War where the PLA volunteers earned a fierce reputation as being no less courageous than the Imperial Japanese - but ultimately it wasn’t sustainable because while all those brave volunteers died, their more cowardly counter parts back home bred, and so the new generation of Chinese lost the edge of their predecessors.

The truth is, prosperity and abundance - normally the hall marks of a successful civilization - are ever cultivators of weakness in martial spirit. If people can afford to hide behind civility and peace and still procreate successfully, then they will. Strength of arms comes from constant violence and hardship. Thus the northern nomads of old were forced to be superb warriors, since their societies were brutal, violent environments where only the victors of the incessant tribal wars got to breed and pass down their genes & values. Weak men were simply weeded out & their women enslaved.

No such filter exists in Chinese society. You are not rewarded for being violent but punished, because the society is primarily one of producers and such people abhor violence since it disrupts their productivity. Hence do not be surprised if the Chinese response is more economic and demonstrative in nature without crossing into overt violence. You cannot change the nature of Chinese society just with slogans & history lessons. To truly become a martial society you must create the conditions - ie rewarding it with reproductive success like the nomads did. I’m not sure people here really wants that for China.
The wealthiest people in Russia happen to have best soldiers (think where the land is as expensive as Moscow). They have the longest life expectancy. you cannot create best soldiers without high quality food, education and clean environment. This is a high tech battlefield where mental development as important as physical.
Shoigu led Russian war in Syria/ Ukraine and is in ministerial Position since 1992 in article last month. declaring Russia not a melting pot to make it clear there is separate civilization inside it and warning to dual nationals/half breed (Putin call them Westernizers ) and than went with big delegation of all agencies to Oman. To create such large delegation it need deep study of people capabilities before visiting Oman. he cannot make further mistakes.

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He continued: "We are not an American melting pot that destroys the uniqueness of peoples, nor are we an empire that claims to carry civilization as Great Britain used to do, where respect for peoples remained merely a formal slogan

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AssassinsMace

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You probably already heard this news but it's the part Eli the Computer Guy rips into the European mentality... I couldn't agree more. For my many criticisms for the US, I think the Europeans are in part worse. They are not the higher evolutionary thinkers American liberals and the Europeans themselves think they are. It's just a cover to hide what they've always been. When you take a look at the history of Western colonialism, it's not the conservatives that had the mentality that believed they had the right to force themselves on world. It's the Western liberals that think they have a higher calling to force themselves onto everyone else. Did the European colonialist believed they were the evil acting on selfish greed when they raped the world? No, they believed they were doing it for the good... for what's best... for God. It's always for someone else and not for themselves so it can't be motivated by selfishness therefore it must be a positive thing that everyone has to submit to. Is it any different today?
 

pmc

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I mean no country has real ariel combat experince aside from Pakistan, Russia and Ukraine. Plus the Air force dosen't need to have game changer aircraft. All PLAAF needs to do is deny air superiority and China would win because NATO tactics rely on Air superiorty and if it's denied then their forces are pretty much useless. We have seen this in Ukraine.
There is some thing called satellites that allow to bypass known air defenses even road mobile. I dont think India has that capability so experience against it not count. Since China has much more cities with taller buildings Russia dynamic air defense experience will be more relevant. They started in 2023 with Su-57 with its new short range missile that was developed in short time. (it is one out of 10 in development. dont assume what they showing is the same what they describing and they are using it) than they added Ka-52M to air defense and finally mastered to put light weight Pantsir on top of structures. They had good idea from Syria that Ka-52M need enhance air defense role but not to extent this Ukraine conflict.

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Russia unveils a new missile for Su-57 fighter jets that is 15 years ahead of American designs.​

She pointed out that, unlike the United States, Russia was able to develop and test a fifth-generation air-to-air missile in a very short period of time, and began using it
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You probably already heard this news but it's the part Eli the Computer Guy rips into the European mentality... I couldn't agree more. For my many criticisms for the US, I think the Europeans are in part worse. They are not the higher evolutionary thinkers American liberals and the Europeans themselves think they are. It's just a cover to hide what they've always been. When you take a look at the history of Western colonialism, it's not the conservatives that had the mentality that believed they had the right to force themselves on world. It's the Western liberals that think they have a higher calling to force themselves onto everyone else. Did the European colonialist believed they were the evil acting on selfish greed when they raped the world? No, they believed they were doing it for the good... for what's best... for God. It's always for someone else and not for themselves so it can't be motivated by selfishness therefore it must be a positive thing that everyone has to submit to. Is it any different today?
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This is king Baudouin of Belgium speech when Congo gained independence where he praises Leopold the II for his work in the Congo. The same Leopold that created the Congo Free State. Lumumba gave a speech after the King where he denounced Belgium colonialism.

This speech got the democratically elected Lumumba killed and replaced with the first iteration of the african dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, aswell as funding Katangese and South Kasai secession to destabilize their former colony when it became independent.

Let that sink in.
 

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China's escalating confrontation with Japan is colliding directly with its attempt to join one of the world's most demanding trade agreements — the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

And because Australia is chairing the CPTPP process this year, the diplomatic fallout is landing squarely on Canberra's desk.
 
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