The only reason I don't see one happening is that we're too materially dependent on China. Last year's bullet shortage was because the lead and primers come from China. We can't make one of the hinge pieces for all 18-wheeler semi axles or wooden doors or half the basic inputs to anything complex. The US has always been considered invasion-safe because of its geography and size, and China is about as large with 4x the population and all of the factories. If they take out the Japanese bases and Guam, with 7th Fleet being so overstretched as-is that I don't see it surviving more than a week, the US would be stuck launching that invasion from its west coast and no real ability to resupply its military or homefront. An air war couldn't penetrate their defenses.
china basically has all the advantages the U.S. did in the late 19th century with the U.S. standing in for the British Empire (and the rivalry between the two powers really reminds me of the U.S.-China one today and war was often on the table). just replace one ocean with the vastness of central Asia (the U.S. isn't driving an armored force from Europe).
I really does feel like we're at the beginning of a major world conflict. That would suck an entire ass.
The only reason I don't see one happening is that we're too materially dependent on China. Last year's bullet shortage was because the lead and primers come from China. We can't make one of the hinge pieces for all 18-wheeler semi axles or wooden doors or half the basic inputs to anything complex. The US has always been considered invasion-safe because of its geography and size, and China is about as large with 4x the population and all of the factories. If they take out the Japanese bases and Guam, with 7th Fleet being so overstretched as-is that I don't see it surviving more than a week, the US would be stuck launching that invasion from its west coast and no real ability to resupply its military or homefront. An air war couldn't penetrate their defenses.
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My local gun store chud was so mad about it.
"Don't be mad, its just capitalism brooo"
china basically has all the advantages the U.S. did in the late 19th century with the U.S. standing in for the British Empire (and the rivalry between the two powers really reminds me of the U.S.-China one today and war was often on the table). just replace one ocean with the vastness of central Asia (the U.S. isn't driving an armored force from Europe).
I'm sure we can just drive our forces through Afghanistan. It can't be that hard, right?
naaaah of course not and we can even find replacement parts littered the entire way
cool! maybe we should try to move through Russia to!
Or we could drive along the coast between Cambodia and China.
Just imagined a caravan of convertibles with military personally just driving along the cost and getting bombed, very amusing!
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America is far more obnoxious than Britain at the moment though, and we haven't had the hubris smacked out of us hard enough yet.