Yeah, I don’t see them signing up for it either.
That would open up China mainland to attack…and if we have evidence that China is storing/stocking weapon in Cuba, we could do the same in Taiwan. I’m sure China doesn’t want that. OK just thinking out loud here.
You would be surprised what money and trade goods can buy from a Latin Marxist Regime these days. And Marxism today has a much more Maoist flavor than in the past…
I think China fully expects conventional strikes on Chinese territory. They have been doing everything they can to establish area denial to mitigate the risk.
You would know more than I do, I suspect that anywhere they launch attack on American ships/assets would be open season on that launch site. OK I’m just talking out loud here.
Not military expert nor do I pretend to be one…specially after blowing Russians would be surrounding Kiev with nightly bombings.
We can’t apply our logic to Xi and his Generals. He doesn’t care if he takes losses as long as the end result is victory. Everything demonstrated by China’s actions are preparation for hostilities. And the more capable they become and the less prepared we appear to them, the more dangerous it becomes.
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I agree, have to expect the unexpected.
But moment China attacks our mainland, all bets are off. The only excuse China would attack us if we launch attack on China assets from our mainland. You think China would go that far?
Also if China is stocking pilling weapons in Cuba than Americans have every right to stock pile weapon in Taiwan. Again I’m not sure China wants that.
Also if China keeps the fighting in S China sea, American peace movement will respond with no blood for Taiwan or microchips…but the moment they attack American mainland that all goes out the window. I’m sure Xi and his Generals knows this.
They would want Peace movement involved.
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One in the same since 1959.
Not saying they are stockpiling them there yet, but I would hide mobile intermediate missiles there if it were me. And China isn’t like our last opponents. They are very strategic in their thinking. And they aren’t afraid to take casualties. Don’t expect them to allow us to remain untouched at home. Strategic combat is designed to suppress your enemy’s ability to sustain a war effort and dishearten their population’s support of a conflict. The main battle space would be in their backyard’ but disrupting our domestic power generation and refining capacity would really crimp our ability to sustain operations. It would also be very damaging to the psyche of our population. How many fossil fuel power stations knocked offline would it take to disrupt the grid and and for how long. How many coastal refineries could we stand to have taken off line before domestic logistics were threatened, let alone military logistics? And you think prices are high now, imagine them in a shooting war.
Only if they think they can’t win quickly enough without it. And there will be US warships already sunk and thousands of dead sailors, airman, and marines.
They don’t care about their population, any peace movement will be shut down and imprison. Strategically that would be last option if they cannot sustain there war effort.
Right now Americans are divided, raising future perverts and sexual freaks instead of men willing to defend this country is a plus for China.
And heaven forbid if you take away these kids ability to play video games, that might irk em enough to enlist.
Ok I’m joking but you get the picture. I don’t think we would go after China infrastructure but again see my predictions on Kiev.
I hate to say this but I’m not sure most of them even care…but take away their ability to play video games and download porn etc. That’s only going to unite the people.
I think they go after ours if/when the shooting starts. And I don’t think they would pin their hopes of victory on the US isolationist streak. I would also expect them to warn us that it stays conventional unless we go nuclear first.
They’ll care for a little while afterward. And there will be all sorts of recriminations about failure to prepare and forgetting that weakness doesn’t encourage peace.
Well we should have been prepare decades ago instead of funding there military, which of course what I’ve been advocating.
Now IMO it’s to late. American been weaken to a point that we can’t recover unless…and that’s big if that Europe will join in…but won’t hold my breath.
China and its allies are much more likely to use subversion and treachery than bombs and guns as the primary weapons against the US. Some in China say they have already won.
I suspect that most of the alleged tension between the US leadership and China are just for show.
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They don’t have the ability to invade. They can’t project air power in force in the Eastern Pacific. Missiles are one thing, invading would be another and we would go nuclear to stop an invasion. But that doesn’t mean they can’t defeat us in a short conventional conflict focused in the Western Pacific with selective conventional strikes on US soil in support of achieving that victory. And the vast majority of Europe won’t do a thing. China would be sure have the conflict open around Taiwan and then attack our forces after we attempt to interceed. No NATO reaction to us initiating hostilities with Chinese forces.
Curiously a US war simulation from late 2020 started with a bioweapon attack from China:
Last fall, the U.S. Air Force played out a war scenario with China, in which China begins its attack by deploying a biological weapon throughout the Indo-Pacific region. The outcome for the U.S. was not a good one, a new report revealed this week.
US will 'lose fast' in war with China, Air Force's simulation shows | American Military News
We have just gone through a multiyear pandemic that originated in China, but the disease caused much greater damage to the US and Europe than it did to China and its neighbors. Has this just been a trial run on more destructive attacks in the future?
You have American CEO rubbing elbows with Xi and communist government behind American backs…am not even sure what side they would be on in case of conflict.
Personally, we need to start building city busting nukes again…like titan 3 with 10 or more Mt.
