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Coalescence said:

So if US is ramping up, would this make China more likely to do an armed reunification before the balance is tilted in US favor?

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Is there any necessity for that? There is no favorable tilting to US side. Conflict around Taiwan has only two possible outcome for USA in my opinion.
China peaceful reunifying Taiwan , thus putting USA military out of it's job USA can accept it without all the deaths to it's soldiers.
Or hot conflict resulting into USA military apparatus being destroyed and reducing it into a regional power in a inconsequential region of both sides of America.
No matter how much USA tries to spin it off, they have been punching above their height due to absence of other global powers preceding them. With all F22s, F35s, B2s, they can not challenge Russia in it's backyard. Putting those high valus military assets in actual combat will mean bankruptcy.

Coalescence said:

So if US is ramping up, would this make China more likely to do an armed reunification before the balance is tilted in US favor?

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It's already tilted on US favor if you look what systems they can deploy rapidly. US military has it's own problems but they can drop air deployed naval mines, cruise missiles what can be carrier by most of their fighter jets (China doesn't have one), plenty of GPM's, more naval mines. If there is a conflict US will be deploying thousands of naval mines in the first few days.

Broccoli said:

It's already tilted on US favor if you look what systems they can deploy rapidly. US military has it's own problems but they can drop air deployed naval mines, cruise missiles what can be carrier by most of their fighter jets (China doesn't have one), plenty of GPM's, more naval mines. If there is a conflict US will be deploying thousands of naval mines in the first few days.

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So they are somehow going to deploy thousands of airdropped naval mines in a few days over the Taiwan Strait without facing the PLAAF?

daifo said:

India is for India. Also they wised up to the situation:
" China, help us destroy Russia so we can destroy you afterwards."
" India, help us destroy Russia and China so we can destroy you afterwards."

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I remember some high level in the Obama administration said that if both China and India become developed there won't be enough resources for the existing developed countries including US.

siegecrossbow said:

World is literally going to hell with starvation, lack of energy, civil and external strife and all some people care about is whether they have global dominance. What is the point of such dominance if there isn't a world left to inherit?

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Ruling the ashes. Which is fine by me.

FairAndUnbiased said:

I remember some high level in the Obama administration said that if both China and India become developed there won't be enough resources for the existing developed countries including US.

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That's probably right. Which also shows that a fundamental rethink is needed in our economic/production/consumption system

Britons told to get ready for a ‘truly horrific’ winter​

The chief executive of E.ON UK, Michael Lewis, said that between 30% and 40% of Britons could go into fuel poverty from October when the industry regulator is expected to put up the annual limit on tariffs.

“We are expecting a severe impact on customers’ ability to pay,” Lewis told members of parliament, adding that he expected customers’ debts to rise by 50%, or £800 million ($1.04 billion).

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(UK) Supermarkets limit cooking oil purchases due to Ukraine crisis​

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday warned that Europe would not be able to survive next winter without Russian gas.

“We are not going to see the consequences of this in the spring and summer of 2022 (we have replenished the stocks), but next winter everything will change if there is no more Russian gas,” he said in an interview with Ouest France, published on Friday.

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Will Europe embargo oil? Or are they gonna make a deadline and then extend it lol.

Coalescence said:

So if US is ramping up, would this make China more likely to do an armed reunification before the balance is tilted in US favor?

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Before end of this year

Overbom said:

That's probably right. Which also shows that a fundamental rethink is needed in our economic/production/consumption system

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Like I said, in the Post Peak Energy reality of a Negative Sum Game World, there can only be one winner on top, if even that. But at most that.

US is trying to play the Squid Game so that its last man standing by pitting India against China, and trying to play China to betray Russia so that after it takes care of Russia it can go after China full force and get its vassals like India to play along, before also backstabbing India in the end.... This is what its betting on and how it is planning to artificially extend US hegemony to the "end of history"

But its not going to work out for America

Coalescence said:

So if US is ramping up, would this make China more likely to do an armed reunification before the balance is tilted in US favor?

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Balance is already tilted towards the US both militarily and economically with US and it’s Allies in control of global financial system.

The only difference being the US no longer has overwhelming advantage in select areas. But even in those areas, DOD is trying to offset them by developing long range missiles of its own, spreading out its bases, etc…

Petrolicious88 said:

Balance is already tilted towards the US both militarily and economically with US and it’s Allies in control of global financial system.

The only difference being the US no longer has overwhelming advantage in select areas. But even in those areas, DOD is trying to offset them by developing long range missiles of its own, spreading out its bases, etc…

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Do they even have the resources to do that when being trillions of dollars in debt and also soon to be without the dollar reserve meaning that the days of being able to print money for resources are numbered. Not to mean that they have been trying to develop hypersonic weapons for ages to no real success. Face it, the usa is slowly losing its place of dominance in the world and they will never be able to get that back