I wonder why other countries don't think paranoid fantasies about American cruise ships
The reality of carrier groups and stuff actually going around projecting force probably helps maintain perspective.
modern cruise ships are also huge, fast and tough to sink.
huge? yes
fast? not really
tough to sink? yes vs icebergs and random crap in the sea, doubt they would hold up to anti-ship missilesThe only sinking I remember off the top of my head was because of the captain being drunk. Pretty decent record.
yeah, the costa concordia right?
people don't usually fire tomahawks at them thoughThat’s the one.
The trueanon sub has a lot of comments pointing out that blowing up cruise ships is probably very easy and good for the climate.
China should do a world in conflict soviet assault but instead of landing troops in cargo ships its just a bunch of Chinese boomers on a cruise ship. Taiwan's snow crab leg supply would never survive.
Unleashing thousands of elderly vacationers with cheap high quality digital cameras to do mass reconnaissance of the worst chain restaurants Taiwan has to offer.
this... is actually how chinese intelligence is stereotyped
americans used high tech shit, russians use highly trained assets, chinese use massive amount of civilians
"asianic hordes" that due to a lack of "judeo-christian values" don't value their own lives like "we" value ours. mindset is intentionally fostered and is a psychological trick to make targeting civilian populations easier, life isn't precious to them and if they don't value their own lives then why should we value their lives. their mothers hearts don't break like ours do from the loss of a child and when their fighters lay down their lives it isn't a great sacrifice to protect their loved ones or do what is right for a collective good but because they just don't value their own life. most recent history is how the US military and media used this in how they talked about afghan people. they used the same tactic during Vietnam, Korea, Kosovo/Serbia, Libya, and Somalia to name a few examples.
I actually completely forgot people said groups of chinese tourists were spies. Back then my brain had so many holes in it i didn't even question how absurd of a statement that was.
UOOOOGH CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT WAR, WAAARRRR WAAAAAARRRRRRRRR IM GONNA CUUUUUUMMM
We can't have a retired boater boomer gap. If China can deploy thousands of retirees on cruise ships then carnival cruise lines has to match them and do better.
I particularly enjoyed the part talking about the gap between the Wasp-class and fucking lifeboats
it's "overlooked" because it's a completely implausible, ridiculous notion. some ideas are better left unexamined
Chinese Cruise ship D-Day would have been an amazing Clancy novel. Shouldn’t be examined as anything other than a fictional “lol, what if”
Lol remember that Clancy Novel where Russia and NATO team up against China? In retrospect his funniest wrong prediction.
The bear and the dragon, one of his last bowel movements before the post Mortem shits his estate put out.
To my shame I was at one point a liberal who was all like “hell yeah, why don’t we team up with Russia now we are on the same side”.
It’s like a part of the unholy Trinity alongside the chuds who team up somebody on the “bad list” to nuke the superbowl and Japan doing a 9/11 against congress and wiping out everyone except the VP.
Truly a unique mind if nothing else.
To my shame I was at one point a liberal who was all like “hell yeah, why don’t we team up with Russia now we are on the same side”.
I think from a realpolitik point of view that was probably the best course of action for the West. Of course, that would have required the US to restrain its capitalists from looting Russia in the 90s, which was never going to happen.
I hope Kissinger shits himself every day, even more than he would anyway at one million years old, in fear reflecting on how badly the deep state's largest failsons fucked up his Sino-American rapprochement - Soviet collapse under imperialism - Partner with newly capitalist Russia to win counter-revolution in the PRC maneuver
Pissing away long term dominance over all of Eurasia for one moment of unbridled greed is extremely on-brand foe the US.
Kissinger is like the one Go master in the entire country looking on in shock as the Checkers players who took over after him "fix" his positions.
all those hours spent teaching MacKinder to the up-and-coming ghouls, and they still didn't get the fucking message
Kissinger: "... and that's why it's important to hold the World Island. Can you summarize what I just taught you?"
Think Tank Ghoul #8913: "Russian man yellow. Yellow man bad."
Kissinger: "Fuck this, I'm going to go hang out in China."
Think Tank Ghoul #9748: "Kissinger left the classroom because he likes gorging on Peking duck too much to defend democracy"
Lmao they're gonna invade the world with boomer wine moms, watch out!
Don’t say things that make me agree with a fear monger from Forbes lol.
Wine moms being the shock troopers who liberate Taiwan would be hilarious though.
I don't like them because cruise ships are the devil. Maybe we should preemptively fire torpedos at cruise ships across the globe
Im waiting for the followup article
"Chinese Diaspora, an overlooked espionage challenge"
Can't wait for WW3 to be sparked by a US submarine Lusatainia'ing a Chinese cruise ship minding its own business off the coast of Vladivostok.
A zero strafing a cruise ship would be the first time a plane with the rising sun hit a guilty target.
So - it's basically an Onion article?
China's new cruise ships are really amphibious attack vessels that will kill everyone.
They're terrified because until this year there were two types of high-end civilian ships China could not build competitively - cruise liners and LNG carriers.
Now Chinese ship builders have cracked both so there are no more high-profit low-volume niches for Westoid shipbuilders to hide in. Western (or even South Korean) shipyards will become increasingly reliant on government subsidies to stay afloat, which will be extremely expensive since even with subsidies they will find it hard to compete with the scale advantage of Chinese yards.
The last arrow in the Western quiver is to paint Chinese cruise ships and LNG carriers as national security risks to justify sanctions and prevent Western cruise companies from buying from them.
