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Sorry, but no.
I won't talk about infantries and land warfare in general since it's not my field of expertise and focus, but your attempts at shoehorning your reasonings across domains which shouldn't be seen as equivalents is just hilarious.
Surface warships are very much a must for not just fighting naval wars against the enemy, but also for establishing presence and control at sea. You can't do that with missiles for the latter.
Surface warships of today mainly rely on active defensive measures, namely radars and sensor systems, anti-air and anti-missile interceptor missiles, gun-based or DEW-based CIWS, electronic warfare/countermeasures (jamming, spoofing), decoys (smokescreen, towed decoys), and stealth (for certain ships) for defenses against enemy warplanes and missiles.
And as a matter of fact - Shields and swords are always engaged in a never-ending arms race, and this has been true ever since the first humans graduated from the apes. You don't see the enemy putting up their arms and say "I yield! You win!" whenever the opposing side develops some new technology to overwhelm the enemy - They always adapt and develop something better to defend and overcome against whatever new technology the opposing side fields. The cycle continues indefinitely, because survival is the fundamental instinct of the human race.
Moreover, you've been looking at things rather simplistically. Anti-missile defenses don't just rely on ships themselves - It's an all-encompassing effort across multiple domains: Primarily land, sea and air, but now with the addition of outer space, cyberspace and information space as well.
If anything - I'd say that aircraft carriers are actually becoming more important than ever before, not just as additional means of offense (i.e. delivering strikes against enemy warships and land targets), but also additional means of defense (i.e. ship and fleet defenses against increasingly advanced and lethal anti-ship missiles).
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I've said it once I've said it a thousand times, the Entity is the greatest ally of Chinese civilization.
"but there's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs like in 2014"
Lmfao already pussying out.
I wonder what illustrious Iranian export goods to US will be tariffed. So in reality this is a threat to do nothing.
Unironically yes (well not really, Russia is the greatest ally because of securing energy independence). They only care about themselves and not US, while their influence on US lets China consistently troll US and remain a step ahead in intel. Israel is a small country, how easy isn't it for the MSS to just buy/bully intel on US from Mossad?
None of the 3 middle eastern actors that matter are 100% good. Israel is the most outwardly evil and dictatorial, but China has never shied away from working with horrible regimes to advance China's own interest first. We also worked with Pol Pot who is worse.
People having rose tinted glasses on Iran when Iran is also a bullshit third world mentality like nation. If they were China's ally, they would have shifted to 100% Chinese supplies, goods and currency for trade already. Even Israel has fully shifted to Chinese autos majority, yet Iran would rather drive outdated western garbage. Any nation who would rather use something because it is western is an ideological western supremacist. At least Israel is an honest open nazi that buys high quality goods for what they are, while western supremacist refuse to use China's brand out of pure ideology fervor.
Iran and to some extent Saudi have a lot to clean house on both inside and outside government before they can provide a solid case that China should back Islamic ownership of the middle east.
This seems like a fun game.
Robotics is not as complex project like others. it is just US is so dysfunctional that for a century it has largest Auto market and still not have top industrial robotic firms. There is nothing preventing China from producing 100m Autos when you add AI to robotics.
He should’ve expected this, does he think Putin is going to do what he wants just because he said please. Come on, the USA started the whole thing and now they want to end it because it costs too much, if Trump wanted an easy ending, simply walk away and stop ending Ukraine weapons. End of story, there is no ending where the USA can come out of this one looking good.
AssassinsMace
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Secondary tariffs means tariffing countries like China for doing business with Iran. You already see the signs of this being implemented against China where you heard that Trump wanted Canada and Mexico to match US tariffs on China from their end. If one of the ways they say China is insulating itself from being tariffed by the US is by expanding trade with others, Trump wants other countries from trading with China.
It’s obvious that rare earth supplies are very important to Trump. Why not China just stop selling them to the US? Who cares if the US gets them from somewhere else. They’ll costs so much more for the US or whoever else they get to process them. Then also like oil as a commodity China can flood the market making them cheap killing any company supplying the US.
It’s not like China can’t use them for their own advanced technology.
It’s obvious that rare earth supplies are very important to Trump. Why not China just stop selling them to the US? Who cares if the US gets them from somewhere else. They’ll costs so much more for the US or whoever else they get to process them. Then also like oil as a commodity China can flood the market making them cheap killing any company supplying the US.
It’s not like China can’t use them for their own advanced technology.
For me it looks like Trump is begging Putin not threatening him. You can't wack somebody who carry a bigger stick than you...lol especially the one delivering that message is Tiny hand Marco Rubio
