Do nothing. Win!
Mike Tyson: everyone has a plan until their face gets punched.
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I would loved to confront this dummy general the following: When was the last time Australia won an actual war without the massive help and assistance of the mighty U.S. military in the 20th or 21st century?
When was the last time Australia suffered WWI- or WWII-level casualties, both civilian and military? When was the last time — or ever — Australian cities experienced cratered infrastructure, bombed-out buildings, and carcasses and body parts littering the streets?
These atrocious scenarios aren’t some far-out fantasies pulled out of a retired “General’s” ass. They come from someone who refuses to view a potential China–U.S. clash over Taiwan through the idiotic prism of “body bags.”
For a supposedly learned person steeped in martial arts and history, you’d think one could be forgiven for assuming he isn’t governed by stupidity and perfidy.
From the moment the CPC emerged as a political and military equal to the KMT (the one that ran away and tucked its tail on the island of Taiwan), the Party and the people it leads have been determined never again to be dominated, dictated to, or told by external powers where China and the Chinese people can go, whom they can do business with, or — most certainly — when it comes to their core national strategic interest: bringing Taiwan back into the mainland’s fold.
The general loves to harp on the casualty effects war would bring to the Chinese government, yet never asks the same question of himself or the country he comes from. Are we seriously suggesting it’s acceptable for Western countries in Europe to waste their precious “men” in the carnage and brutality that China would certainly bring upon them?
If the Russian invasion of Ukraine couldn’t even coax Europe’s militaries to fight a supposedly weak and inept Russian army in a land war, how exactly are we supposed to expect that a war over Taiwan against a Chinese juggernaut in industrial capacity and know-how would somehow be manageable?
Not to mention the devastating effects on the world economy and the secondary fallout for every political party and government on the planet.
History should have taught warmongering losers like you, Gen. Ryan, what happened the last time a similar megalomaniac five-star general thought so little of those “Chinese peasants” during the Korean War. When his troops were pushed back and suffered embarrassing defeats, he casually floated the idea of using nuclear weapons against China to bring it to heel. What a joke!
If you and your like-minded nincompoops couldn’t defeat a China that was dirt-poor, economically and technologically backwards, how the hell are you so certain this time around is going to be any different?
