At the end of the day, the electoral system is a contest of strength between 2 or more cults of personality. This is more prevalent in some countries than other, but the very basic aspect of representative “democracy”, aka elections (selecting a person to rule) basically boils down to giving a few people the power to make decisions for everybody else. It’s dictatorial by nature.
Anti-China propaganda has gotten real lazy these days. This is what the Americans are getting for 1.6 billion dollars?
The US enforcing a wide blockade against China would be unfeasible due to the sheer size of the Chinese coastline and the US dependence on Chinese trade. I do agree that better equipment does allow China to reduce losses.
I think there was never any real doubt that Vhina would win in a conventional war against the USA. The factors were always so stacked against the Americans that winning for them has been largely impossible since even the early 2000s.
Not only is China’s mass manufacturing base far superior to the US, they also have the distance advantage (don’t have to carry materials across the pacific), and have clear win conditions (retake taiwan or repell the US) allowing for much better public mobilisation.
Furthermore, US military assets are constantly worn down and tied up in conflicts around the world. People believe that US troops are so experienced because of their constant campaigns. Pure idiocy. Modern war is not fought using cavalry charges and pikemen. Modern war is fought using equipment, which in the US case has been degraded by overuse (look at their own reports for the readiness of their weapons). And that weaponry is not easy to replace or iterate either because of the small production rates and long lead times for everything. The experienced soldiers that people glaze the US for come back in wheelchairs and with PTSD.
The number of disabled veterans has jumped by 25 percent since 2001 - to 2.9 million - and the cause really is no mystery.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/number-of-disabled-us-veterans-rising/
Yes, the nunber of disabled veterans in the US is more than twice the size of its entire army.
All of these latest technological improvements only change the odds even more to China’s side. A US-China war, if it happened without the use of nukes would likely not be WW3. It would be over fairly quickly, and afterwards US hard/soft power would start declining even more rapidly. There really isn’t any point for either US or China to launch massive land campaigns that take multiple years to finish.
And if the war happened with the use of nukes, it would also be over quickly.
There’s no way that’s true, right? Surely, the program would be smarter?
Goated ruling. I have nothing negative to say about it which is rare for news these days.