Eh I don't actually imagine us nuking anyone, with everyone having nukes it's pretty dumb, but I wish we could exert that kind of pressure again. In the end, we just have to make sure we have leaders who shun the easy profit. But they are few and far between.
You realize Beijing also owns nukes and ICBMs, and advanced weapon systems first provided by Bill Clinton? You might do damage but win or lose, such a war would devastate our side as well.
This is a common belief and for whatever reasons many people mistakenly believe China has a tremendous military and is a legitimate US 'rival power' too. Various ideas go around.
Look, I thought this too even after I was living in the PRC for years. It wasn't until I took a close look that I started to realize they have precious little.
At this point I don't even know if I believe they have nukes and certainly not as many as they'd claim. Their ICBMs wouldn't make it past Taiwan never mind any chance of clearing the pacific ocean.
They barely have a Navy. Japan would arm it's 'Civil Defense' and utterly annihilate every Chinese ship on the water in 6 days or less.
But more than all that, they are in the worst possible place to ever be at any kind of international war when India would delight in fucking them up on the West taking full advantage. Taiwan and half of Hong Kong would be deeeelighted to watch the PRC use up all its fireworks. Most vulnerable of all is that they are easy to siege as UK, US, France etc absolutely have the entire ocean locked whenever they feel like it. They'd run out of food and oil fast.
And add to all this the most serious flaw in PRC's entire war machine (if it ever had to act) is that they are incompetent, stupid, amateur goofs who get stumped by things like 'Linear thinking' and having most of their leadership made up of 'Rich Kids' who are .. well, imagine a bunch of Trust Fund Kids running anything but with 8th grade educations, masters degrees anyway and primarily worried about their collection of Air Jordans.
Worse than all worse things - 20 minutes after rallying their nation against the evil Americans - China splits into 6.5 different rival factions who somehow mass-murder each other to astonishing levels in horrifying ways.
Realistically, Japan today in 2020 could take over China. Japan + Taiwan would stomp Beijing. Mainland China is a 'Paper Tiger' but the paper is super shiny looking with a brick pattern and that's about it.
Eh...You could honestly apply the rehtoric from the 2003 run up to China with the virus they unleashed upon the world(they intentionally left their international airports open and closed their national ones)
Except this time, it would be true...I wonder why we have not had the same reaction.................
Eh I don't actually imagine us nuking anyone, with everyone having nukes it's pretty dumb, but I wish we could exert that kind of pressure again. In the end, we just have to make sure we have leaders who shun the easy profit. But they are few and far between.
I don’t think they were serious.
I was...
You realize Beijing also owns nukes and ICBMs, and advanced weapon systems first provided by Bill Clinton? You might do damage but win or lose, such a war would devastate our side as well.
This is a common belief and for whatever reasons many people mistakenly believe China has a tremendous military and is a legitimate US 'rival power' too. Various ideas go around.
Look, I thought this too even after I was living in the PRC for years. It wasn't until I took a close look that I started to realize they have precious little.
At this point I don't even know if I believe they have nukes and certainly not as many as they'd claim. Their ICBMs wouldn't make it past Taiwan never mind any chance of clearing the pacific ocean.
They barely have a Navy. Japan would arm it's 'Civil Defense' and utterly annihilate every Chinese ship on the water in 6 days or less.
But more than all that, they are in the worst possible place to ever be at any kind of international war when India would delight in fucking them up on the West taking full advantage. Taiwan and half of Hong Kong would be deeeelighted to watch the PRC use up all its fireworks. Most vulnerable of all is that they are easy to siege as UK, US, France etc absolutely have the entire ocean locked whenever they feel like it. They'd run out of food and oil fast.
And add to all this the most serious flaw in PRC's entire war machine (if it ever had to act) is that they are incompetent, stupid, amateur goofs who get stumped by things like 'Linear thinking' and having most of their leadership made up of 'Rich Kids' who are .. well, imagine a bunch of Trust Fund Kids running anything but with 8th grade educations, masters degrees anyway and primarily worried about their collection of Air Jordans.
Worse than all worse things - 20 minutes after rallying their nation against the evil Americans - China splits into 6.5 different rival factions who somehow mass-murder each other to astonishing levels in horrifying ways.
Realistically, Japan today in 2020 could take over China. Japan + Taiwan would stomp Beijing. Mainland China is a 'Paper Tiger' but the paper is super shiny looking with a brick pattern and that's about it.
Eh...You could honestly apply the rehtoric from the 2003 run up to China with the virus they unleashed upon the world(they intentionally left their international airports open and closed their national ones)
Except this time, it would be true...I wonder why we have not had the same reaction.................
Maybe Saddam Hussien did not buy democrats off?
Everyone has nukes but what have we created in the last 70 years that surpasses nukes is the question.
Black hole bombs!!
The Magog tore up the Andromeda pretty severely with those! They even obsoleted the first season bridge set!