The last year they've been going non-stop with the anti-China shit. Now they're dropping all pretext and are just running stories like "So when we gonna start war with China, fwends? UwU"

I don't care what you think about China. This shit is stupid. We don't need war in the middle of a pandemic, even if it just ends up being a trade war. We'd lose that war. Call me a paranoid freak but this kind of shit terrifies me.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        China’d win in the way that Vietnam won. The Yanks would be forced to go home, but it’d be devastating for China, with thousands if not millions of deaths and a severely harmed economy.

        I disagree with this take. I think both sides will refrain from striking hard at each other's homelands (because a conventional missile looks the same as a nuclear missile in flight) so most of the war will be fought out at sea or via a blockade.

        I question whether the blockade is feasible for America since China makes most of their shit, but a naval war is probably much more evenly matched than the Vietnam War. China has put lot of time and energy into developing incredibly advanced antiship weapons and arguably has ships that beat the USN on a one on one qualitative basis.

      • Sam_Hyde [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        They have a bigger military by ~2 million if you include the reserves in both US and China. We couldn't even win a war game against Iran.