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According to Scott Ritter during the Iraq War remember how the US was hunting for SCUD missiles. Well the US never found any to destroy in time before they could launch. Hiding them from US advanced technology was easy. He says the US faces the same problem looking for Houthi missile launchers. That's why the US is asking for other navies for help. The US is worried over the certainty of looking ineffective especially in front of China. He said the number one way to deter an adversary is by making them believe in your ability to counter what they throw at you. The US needs other navies there to help cover-up. That way the onus is not just on the US. It's like what Ian Bremmer said the day after the US's failure in Afghanistan. He said the US should've made any kind of agreement with China on Afghanistan. That way the US could've spun the failure on China instead of it making the US look bad.
 
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  • Retired US Navy Adm. James Stavridis says China isn't ready to fight the US in the next 10 years.
  • "If we ended up in a war with China, it wouldn't be just the US and China," Stavridis said.
  • Stavridis said US allies such as Japan and South Korea would come to their aid if war breaks out.
China wouldn't be able to fight the US if war were to break out within the next decade, said a former NATO supreme allied commander.

"China, in my estimation, will not be ready to take on the US in a very mature way for about 10 years," retired US Navy Adm.
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said in an interview on
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, which aired on Wednesday.

Stavridis had served as NATO chief from 2009 to 2013. Before taking the helm of NATO, he was the Commander of the US Southern Command from 2006 to 2009, overseeing military operations in Latin America.


In 2021, Stavridis co-authored a novel titled "
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." The book is a fictional account of a war between the US and China over the South China Sea.
Stavridis gave his assessment of China's military capabilities when host Michael Medved asked if a US-China war would break out before 2034.

"Even though China is building a massive fleet, even though they're acting very aggressively, they're not ready yet to line up all that they need to take on the US Pacific Fleet," Stavridis said.

China has the
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, with over 355 vessels in its fleet, according to a 2021
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. In July,
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revealed that China's shipbuilding capacity is
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than the US.

But this, Stavridis argues, would be inconsequential given the strength of US military alliances.

"If we ended up in a war with China, it wouldn't be just the US and China. We have treaty allies who are sworn to come and be a part of a military campaign like that. That's Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand," Stavridis said.

"So that's a lot of firepower when you kind of put it all together," he continued.

Stavridis told Medved that such deterrence would give the US "a bit of a grace period" to strengthen its military further while easing bilateral tensions through diplomacy.


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That former NATO dude is desperate for the US to make a move for China within these 10 years. For who knows how or what the US will end up in without their military and dollar hegemony.
 
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AssassinsMace said:
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Buyer's remorse...? Yes it has nothing to do with India seeing China and Russia getting closer while the US was accusing India of assassination plots in other countries.
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They are so silly, they think they can just shake down countries like they used to and force compliance out of them. This is the beauty of a multipolar order; you don't want to deal with me, cool. I'll go to the other guy.
 
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According to Scott Ritter during the Iraq War remember how the US was hunting for SCUD missiles. Well the US never found any to destroy in time before they could launch. Hiding them from US advanced technology was easy. He says the US faces the same problem looking for Houthi missile launchers. That's why the US is asking for other navies for help. The US is worried over the certainty of looking ineffective especially in front of China. He said the number one way to deter an adversary is by making them believe in your ability to counter what they throw at you. The US needs other navies there to help cover-up. That way the onus is not just on the US. It's like what Ian Bremmer said the day after the US's failure in Afghanistan. He said the US should've made any kind of agreement with China on Afghanistan. That way the US could've spun the failure on China instead of it making the US look bad.
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That is my biggest curiosity in this crisis. Americans failed at hunting mobile BM launchers in 1991. Then they dedicated significant effort and resources to getting better at the task. 32 years have passed. I wonder if their improvements kept pace with developments in the mobile employment of missiles. Recent missiles are much more mobile and faster to launch.
 
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