What if there are already thousands of US troops in Taiwan, all disguised as civilians? Can't China do anything to stop this salami slicing?
What if there are already thousands of US troops in Taiwan, all disguised as civilians? Can't China do anything to stop this salami slicing?
Then the only thing China has to fear is if they are immune to bombs and ballistic missilesWhat if there are already thousands of US troops in Taiwan, all disguised as civilians? Can't China do anything to stop this salami slicing?
Well, it's not like China can stop Americans from entering Taiwan other than a full-scale blocakde of Taiwan itself.What if there are already thousands of US troops in Taiwan, all disguised as civilians? Can't China do anything to stop this salami slicing?
Interesting survey. In military terms, Russia is absolutely a paper tiger relatively to what Russia claimed to be before the war. Economically though, Russia has proven much more resilient than people thought (national comprehensive strength still heavily damaged though)
This is just projection. NAFO isn't Russian, neither the massive amounts of bot accounts that pop up everywhere whenever the US is attempting a regime change anywhere, like it happened when the US and Europe tried to bullshit their way into Hong Kong and Bolivia.Russians have developed very extensive networks of trolls operating within American social networking platforms.
The decision to take Crimea without the Donbas and Luhansk back when they had the chance to do it much more easily, allowing the West to train and supply the Ukrainians for 8 years in the proxy conflict, and finally making poor tactical choices when the call to invade did come.
When the Westoids are growing this deranged and delusional - Let me introduce "Atlasia":
He's right. Good luck trying to unite these 13 countries + 1 rebel Chinese province for the sole purpose of "giving an up-yours to China" when pretty much all of their economies are tightly knitted with the Chinese economy:
Seriously, has The Economist in London now left without anyone with factual understandings on the economics of and around China anymore???
Russia military and economic power is second to none and this not just reflected in lobbying missiles externally to greatest distance possible but quality of domestic recruitments and functioning of government. Russian swat teams demolish competition in UAE that they have Team USA also represented. This is post Covid result. These are team efforts not like one person taking all Gold medals in Olympics. Also Russia has soft power look at G-20 meeting in India. India resisted all West. Russia does not need to sell anything to Arabs. It just need to be present. The only thing that Russia does not have success yet is how to extract Turkish head from German behind. the system is too corrupt to reform. At least Azerbaijan has seen the light. they simply not present during UN votes on Ukraine.My respect and admiration for Russia has only increased as the war has gone on. They are taking on the entire Western world economically, financially and technologically and are still doing well. Their economy has not collapsed, their currency has not collapsed, they don’t have hyperinflation. This despite the strongest possible sanctions from the West. In military, they have destroyed the vast majority of the Ukrainian military and are now essentially fighting against NATO. NATO weapons, NATO ISR, NATO military commanders, foreign mercenaries.
We can criticise Russia for certain military mistakes they made early on, but they are fighting admirably against the entire West in all areas so much so that the Western leaders are frustrated and shown utterly unhinged behaviour at their failure to crush Russia. I don’t think even China could do that much better if put in Russia’s current shoes. It’s easy to have great plans, but we don’t know how a country will do once it gets punched in the face. Russia has shown incredible resilience after getting punched in the face. I’ve got nothing but respect for the Russians.
They booted up a game of Wargame Red Dragon.Lol are they wargaming the PLA of 1990s? I really hope there are sane japanese leaders who don't believe this