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China has been fucking around for a while now. One of these times they’re going to step over that line and start something they wish they hadn’t.
I kinda hope they do and the US decides it's had enough and declares war and launches the fleets to force Xi to apologise or get him ousted by the rest of the party. Obviously don't want a real war, just real looking enough to freak out the CCP into backing down.
The outcome of that would more likely be war than a restructure of Chinese government.
And such a war would certainly make WWII look like babies at play.
Almost seems like china wants it. Their pilots are trained, their pilots act like infants.. its a safe bet they're trained to act like infants.
They are just like the playground bully. Acting all tough but they can't back it up.
Look at their aircraft carrier: https://thedefencetimes.com/2023/06/06/fujian-chinese-aircraft-carrier-cracks/
China wouldn't stand a chance if the US really wanted to swat them down.
I'll have you know that Major Cracks is a highly decorated member of the PLA!
(PLN maybe?)
Does anyone understand the impacts of this (genuine question)? I doubt the crack actually goes very deep, and is probably just in the deck armor. But that's probably very expensive to replace. I assume the point here is that it's ridiculous their carriers are cracking on their own while in active service, probably due to negligence.
Also, is it possible that's just water or dirt? Or are we sure that's a crack?
That's the point, I have no idea of the full impacts, I am not a crack expert. Well, not in these kinds of cracks at least.
Considering how bad modern Chinese construction can be, it wouldn't be surprising if the whole thing just snapped in half.
It’s their playground. We’re on their playground. Imagine if China had bases in Cuba and Bermuda and were flying near our airspace. Geez, the liberal brain rot is real.
We need to figure out ways to reorient China's ambitions from an impossible ask - Taiwan, the 9-dash-line, and the South China Sea, and point out the obvious low hanging fruit, that wouldn't require force projection / airborne and naval landings, and a world class navy to oppose literally every other country in the pacific, and invest those resources where they could gain massive ground, repatriate ethnic chinese and repatriate Chinese cities that they were forced to give up and still want back, like Vladivostok. Russia is sick. China is already pushing for greater influence in the -stan countries - the move only requires a will for China to head north, capturing enormous amounts of land, resources and new citizens / customers for it's industries. And unlike the Pacific, I don't know that many will want to save them after the last few years... I don't see Belarus scrambling resources to send to defend Irkutsk.
What about America's blood/oil lust?
oh don't worry buddy I'm sure we'll still find some assholes or innocents to bomb, we're industrious like that, whole network of spy sattelites up there just peekin' and peeping for someone doing something fuckity that disagrees with our freedumbs.
never fails bud.