I do appreciate that they conveniently ignore that the PLA and the US army have fought before, and the former decidedly spanked the latter.
Edit: I will addendum my original comment by saying that I don't think there's much value in analyzing the Korean War to determine how a theoretical China-US war would go given both militaries have massively evolved in size and function since, but it's still funny these armchair generals acknowledge it if they're even aware in the first place.
I think there were two direct conflicts between PLA and US troops, both times the Americans were caught by surprise and were forced to retreat. It wasn't even close either time.
It scared MacArthur so much I believe the same day he started requesting more bombing runs, but there were fears some bombs would hit Manchuria and China would send even more troops. Truman got so scared he asked congress for permission to use atom bombs.
I do appreciate that they conveniently ignore that the PLA and the US army have fought before, and the former decidedly spanked the latter.
Edit: I will addendum my original comment by saying that I don't think there's much value in analyzing the Korean War to determine how a theoretical China-US war would go given both militaries have massively evolved in size and function since, but it's still funny these armchair generals acknowledge it if they're even aware in the first place.
I think there were two direct conflicts between PLA and US troops, both times the Americans were caught by surprise and were forced to retreat. It wasn't even close either time.
It scared MacArthur so much I believe the same day he started requesting more bombing runs, but there were fears some bombs would hit Manchuria and China would send even more troops. Truman got so scared he asked congress for permission to use atom bombs.