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More details than the video
But shows how much the region has changed that no one in the vacinity is ready to accept an American base the closest is all the way at turkey and than you'll need Iranian air space which won't happen
Very interesting geopolitical devolpments, 20 years ago it seemed impossible!
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It is for this reason I think there is a very real possibility of military action to reunite Taiwan later this year or next.
It is an open secret America is just waiting for an opportunity to start a hot war with China soon, as their pretty much last throw of the dice to stop China before it completely overmatches America in every way.
China has already been consistently outperforming America in almost every field objectively measurable, like economics, tech, even military development. Previously America managed to delude itself with all its soft power BS and made up league tables based on intangible perceptions where they and their white western buddies always rank top, with the odd coloured colonised countries thrown in to maintain the pretence that it isn’t a white blue club circle jerk. The now infamous pandemic response league table is just the most jarring recent example.
In a way, covid has really opened the eyes of a lot of American and western elites to the true magnitude of their decline from the apex of their power. Which only adds more urgency to their warmongering as the window of opportunity where that is even still viable is closing a lot faster than they would have expected. This is a sentiment well captured in that article.
While China’s own military modernisation is far from complete, covid does present a once-in-lifetime opportunity where the west is still so hobbled and reliant on Chinese industrial might that the chances of them militarily intervening in a Taiwan scenario is historically low.
Once the west has fully recovered from covid, I think we will enter a period of hyper heightened tensions where the US will be itching to start a war with China as soon as it feels an opportunity presents itself.
Taiwan is a surefire way for them to start that war while still being able to convincingly frame China as the aggressor to drag allies into the fight.
That will likely last for at least a decade, probably two or more until Chinese military and overall national power has advanced so far beyond America’s that even their most deluded war mongers can no longer suspend belief enough to think they still have a chance to winning said war.
If China doesn’t take Taiwan within the next year or two, it will need to play its cards perfectly for the next two decades and also hope nature doesn’t thrown any unavoidable calamities its way. Because one major slip up and/or natural catastrophe and/or intentional sabotage could be the trigger to make America try its luck. So that’s a big gamble with huge risk as even if China does everyone humanly possible right, there isn’t much that can be done for random freak bad luck.
That man lives rent-free in every westerner's head. The best part is that he probably had nothing to do with Australia's drama in the big picture.
I have no doubt that China will NOT attack Taiwan within the next 2 years. A better estimate in my opinion would be 6-12 more years from today.
Zero hedge is actually Russian back news outletYep, it was said that Dong Jingwei (董经纬) defected in mid February. As I said, I take any report about China from the western media with a huge pinch of salt, let alone report from the rabidly anti-China conspiracy website Zerohedge, or from some little known website such as redstate.com.
That is quantum mechanics!
Chinese are leading the world in spy superposition will be the next Liberal media headlines.
Meh. TASS reported that the Chinese suffered 40+ (I think) casualties in Ladakh, and that turned out to be bs.