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We really needs to move towards a war economy and militaristic posture. Not the current 1.3 percent pacifist spending. Increasing our nuclear posture towards several thousand nukes and ICBMs would be a good start.
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solarz
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Oh boy, are we going to see a Korean reunification war before a Taiwan reunification war?
China will respond of course. But it’s response will mostly be symbolic. There’s not much China can do.
We need an army of volunteers on SDF to keep up with all the boiling international tensions and containment policies being implemented against the PRC in a whole list of areas.
First it was Japan, now its S.Korea talking about nukes. CIA agents are doing their work
The US did the exact same thing in Brazil. This is just a copy out of that playbook.
Told ya. Sooner or later they will want to put Dark Eagle in South Korea and/or Japan.
It is already being worked on to be put in Germany next year.
They already have AEGIS Ashore and THAAD in Japan and South Korea respectively.
There have been a lot of brainlet takes about China's non-interference policy, as if that policy is all that stands in the way of China building an alliance that would put NATO to shame and make it the strongest power in the world by a country mile and cure male pattern baldness. Unfortunately, things are much more complicated than that.
America came out of the Second World War with half the world's wealth. 5% of the world's population had half its wealth, which means a single American had on average 19x the wealth of the average non-American. This is the environment in which America built the alliance system that today China is challenging. Where was China at the end of the Second World War? Where was China just thirty years ago? You expect China to have an alliance system like America's? No can do - America took them all. What China has left are slim pickings. There's only one way to accomplish that and it's to resoundingly defeat America in war in front of everybody. Whatever interference/non-interference policy China adopts won't change that.
On the subject of Pakistan, I'll defer to @Mohsin77's judgement, but it seems to me the point of American interference is not to put an anti-China government in power. There is no such government in Pakistan. The point is to keep Pakistan in a state of perpetual instability so China can't build it up. Even if all the governments are "friendly" to China, these recurring coups will keep projects in a chronic state of delays, problems, etc.
But one thing I noted was Bajwa's recent disgusting speech where he said something to the effect of, "Pakistan buys weapons from China because America leaves us no choice when they cut off exports. All our best equipment is from America. Daddy America, please take us back!" But it's like that trolling article that was posted recently said: he's a Sandhurst/West Point type. Qamar Bajwa is 62 years old - when he was attending a military academy, China's GPD was $300 billion (it's close to $30 trillion today for context).
This is what China is struggling against. It's rise was so recent and so rapid that, as Graham Allison put it, people haven't had time to be astonished.
America came out of the Second World War with half the world's wealth. 5% of the world's population had half its wealth, which means a single American had on average 19x the wealth of the average non-American. This is the environment in which America built the alliance system that today China is challenging. Where was China at the end of the Second World War? Where was China just thirty years ago? You expect China to have an alliance system like America's? No can do - America took them all. What China has left are slim pickings. There's only one way to accomplish that and it's to resoundingly defeat America in war in front of everybody. Whatever interference/non-interference policy China adopts won't change that.
On the subject of Pakistan, I'll defer to @Mohsin77's judgement, but it seems to me the point of American interference is not to put an anti-China government in power. There is no such government in Pakistan. The point is to keep Pakistan in a state of perpetual instability so China can't build it up. Even if all the governments are "friendly" to China, these recurring coups will keep projects in a chronic state of delays, problems, etc.
But one thing I noted was Bajwa's recent disgusting speech where he said something to the effect of, "Pakistan buys weapons from China because America leaves us no choice when they cut off exports. All our best equipment is from America. Daddy America, please take us back!" But it's like that trolling article that was posted recently said: he's a Sandhurst/West Point type. Qamar Bajwa is 62 years old - when he was attending a military academy, China's GPD was $300 billion (it's close to $30 trillion today for context).
This is what China is struggling against. It's rise was so recent and so rapid that, as Graham Allison put it, people haven't had time to be astonished.