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As many as 20 aircraft from China either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait or breached the island country’s air defense identification zone.
As many as 20 aircraft from China either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait or breached the island country’s air defense identification zone.
If what we have seen from Ukraine moping the floor with russia using our tech from the 90s, there is no chance china has fighting us head on. It’ll be bloody but it’ll be a very one sided war.
China doesn’t have 90s tech though. They have coordinated drone swarms in the thousands.
I also think it might be a Ukraine is to Russia as Taiwan is to China type of thing.
Hopefully Russia is out of the picture by then.
China doesn’t even have a blue water navy.
An invasion of mainland China would be extremely difficult and costly, but they have no where near the force projection beyond their coast that the US navy does.
A war with China wouldn’t be to take Chinese territory, at least not from a US perspective. It would be to defend Taiwan, which the US would have no problem doing.
The US will just sell Taiwan weapons and training, like Ukraine.
No, we actually defend Taiwan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
Nah, Taiwan is far too critical to US national security due to the massive number of chips we need from them for all of our military equipment.
We would actually go to full on war over them if needed.
Now, if only the west could put up a coordinated and sustained effort of seeing Ukraine not just survive, but win, that would really send a message to china.
Current Chinese leadership isn’t much good at reading messages, they’ve been sent plenty.
As bad as this sounds it’s best to keep limited assistance to Ukraine if it can be helped. How would it look like to an increasingly unhinged Putin, dictator with a nuclear capable ICBM system, when the army of a country they invaded are rolling down the road to Moscow with highly advanced American equipment? There are two positive ways to end the war:
Ukraine invades Moscow with limited western support giving him less of a justification to send retaliatory missile strikes all over the world.
Things look so bleak even to the most financially comfortable Russian citizen that his own people turn on him and manage a successful coup before he can escalate things any further.
Ukraine, as far as I’m concerned, is neither interested, nor capable, nor allowed to start a serious invasion of russia. The risk of them suddenly going insane and doing it anyway are next to none.