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It's true and I don't even know why. During COVID Western Australia state government got the hook up and could source PPE from China while no one else in the world could so they were doing deals on behalf of other states. I also know they always invite their Chinese consulate staff to public events.So I heard there is this ongoing separatist movement in the biggest and western most state in the People's Republic of Australia. The people there speak in a different accent and they even have their own timezone. That land is mostly desert and also happen to have a lot of natural resources including natural gas, kind of reminds of
I think it's something to do with resource trade. I'm not sure what the split is but maybe Western Australia proportionally rely more on commodity export to China than other states so they know which side of the bread is buttered on.
Victorian state government (ie Labour) use to be fairly friendly too and signed onto BRI before federal government stopped them but there are still a lot of conservative voices in Victoria which tow the US line. They got candidates that put "no CCP" and shit on their blurb on their how to vote cards. I think the closer it is to Canberra the more US aligned things become, with Queensland being an outlier because they're super conservative and derisively called "banana benders" by other states.
I accept your concession of defeat since you still have no answer for the 10k to 100 air combat ratio or the result of Khe Sanh and Dewey Canyon.
I suggest starting with learning real history not taught by VOA or USAID funded agencies. Their budget got cut for a reason.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
It never fails the dumb Asian that thinks they're the exception.
Your gumption is truly astonishing.
I accept your concession of defeat since you have no answer for the obvious fact of the Taliban having a standing army in 2001, e.g.:
During the 1990s the Taliban maintained 400 and tanks and more than 200 armoured personnel carriers.
400 tanks and 200 APCs isn't a throwaway line no matter how much you bury your head in the sand.
As for your "10k to 100" "air combat ratio", that is a straight up lie on your part. That 10k number is losses of ALL aircraft, including cargo planes and helicopters. That makes sense since the USAF usually dominated the skies above but as soon as they dipped towards the canopy to drop troops or supplies they were vulnerable to even small arms fire. Pretty sure North Vietnam didn't do too many combat drops.
The actual net "air combat ratio" is about 150:70 in favor of the USAF.
BTW, here are a couple more "throwaway lines" from that link, including describing your vaunted Linebacker II which was allegedly so successful for North Vietnam:
"Even so, enemy MiGs failed in their primary mission to stop US air attacks over North Vietnam during OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER. In fact, the VPAF fighter force sometimes retreated to China and stood down from combat operations due to heavy losses suffered at the hands of American fighter crews.
MiG pilots did little better in December 1972 -- by the end of OPERATION LINEBACKER II, USAF B-52s and tactical aircraft hit targets at will, forcing the North Vietnamese to sign a peace treaty."
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
He has to find a way to make money. Trump went out of his way to say he was never going to offer a position in his administration again to Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo. He's under China's sanctions list meaning China will not do business with any company that hires him. No executive job nor board member in any corporation. The right-wing Koch brothers didn't even hire him. No more job at FOX News since Trump seems not to like him. So the only thing for him is being a teacher.
Says: "isn't a throwaway line" proceeds to name a throwaway number.
For reference, that's less tanks and substantially less APC than the PVA used in Korea. You know, the famous armored blitz of the PVA.
It's also around what AFU lost in Bakhmut or Kursk. A single battle in a just 3 year long war.
Per definition a throwaway number.
Jesus what it this source usage? Might as well select a DPRK museum of the "war to resist imperialist aggression" as the authorative voice on how well the KPA performed and how high Kim Il Sung's balls should be lifted.
If they were so vulnerable to small arms fire, it reveals really poor doctrine. Aircraft should never be unsupported in a way mere small arms fire or manpads can kill 1000s of them... It sounds like weird cope tbh because US tactics should not be that bad and not improve across such a long war.
Either way they lost a staggering amount of aircraft and that's what counts. Resulting in conventional defeat. Because 10k aircraft is defintely no throwaway number, even if half are helicopters and cargo planes. In fact, the latter are more expensive and should almost never be lost in combat by a competent army. Russia has for example lost around 3-5 cargo planes (1 loaded with Ukrainian prisoners in either a perfidy incident from Ukraine or a Russian false flag) in the whole war.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Next week Trump will announce 50% tariffs on the UK unless they give him, as in personally, the Crown Jewels and Scotland. Because he likes shiny and golf and scotch whiskey and Angus burgers/steaks.
Stop coping, it has been days and no one even bothers to read the responses anymore. From a k/d ratio POV, which americans love to tout when faced with wars they lost, US forces got clapped in those specific engagements. From a wholistic POV, which is the one that matters, the US lost decisively in those wars. It failed to achieve their primary objective, which is: win, and impose our will on the enemy. Accept and move on