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taxiya

Brigadier
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Russia sold Syria in exchange US to curb military aid to Ukraine. Iran hurried to cut its tail.
You are just repeating the same US lines as "Because China does not send artillery shells to Russia, China must have been conceeded to US pressure in exchange for US doing less in trade war or Taiwan" or "Because China spent time to replace USD payment in trade with Russia and Iran, China must have been collabrating with the west's sanction of the two countries."

It is really "amuzing" that after so many years and so many times there are still some people repeating these lines of cheap western propaganda.
 

taxiya

Brigadier
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Dunno about China but Russia already did all it could. Assad should have been gone years ago but Russian support extended it. The problem is you have to teach a man how to fish and Syria is someone who refuses to learn. There's a reason why all these middle eastern states get wrecked by Israel even when they all team up. Now Russia has its hands full and we see what happens.

Supporting a country like Syria is like investing in crypto. You put a significant portion into it and it can go away overnight.
Another important point if not the most important is that country only stay unified if there is a dominant identity, it don't have to be ethnic but most often it is. USSR with more than half population being varias ethnicities broke but not Russia where Russian ethnity is dominant. USSR tried to creat a new identity based on new ideology and beliefs but didn't have the time which would need hundreds years. Yogoslavia was another example. In the arab world, identity of country or even Arab is less a thing than tribe, religion and religious sectors. There are countless examples elsewhere.
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
The US didn’t take drones seriously as a weapon of war. There was some military official that mocked Elon Musk when he posted about the US should concentrate on drones and not stealth fighters. Maybe it’s that American mentality that thinks that everything comes so easily for Americans overnight that puts them at ease so they don’t think about it.

I’m not saying go all-in on drones but not to take them seriously like the US brass has been doing is asinine. Anyone ever see that video out of the Russian/Ukraine conflict where a Ukrainian FPV drone is going after two soldiers. The drone is buzzing around them like a fly while they’re evading and firing their assault rifles at it at point blank range. All their bullets miss. It’s only when one soldier runs out of bullets he has to throw his assault rifle at it and then hits it and it explodes. That’s how difficult it is to hit something buzzing and jinking around.

I was reading about blasting microwaves at drones as a solution but you have to first spot the drone in order to use it but then if if you use microwaves it affects also everything behind it for some distance meaning you might hit your own assets in the process trying to target drones coming at you from any direction.

I’m reading soldiers are deathly afraid of drones which are essentially flying IEDs that come after them when spotted. And the US is finding it difficult figuring out a defense because of how they didn’t take drones seriously meaning there’s not an effective defense technological or not against them.
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zyklon

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Maybe it’s that American mentality that thinks that everything comes so easily for Americans overnight that puts them at ease so they don’t think about it.

I’m reading soldiers are deathly afraid of drones which are essentially flying IEDs that come after them when spotted.

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> A US veteran who fought in Ukraine said that the scale of drones in the war is terrible for troops' morale, and that soldiers sometimes won't see a drone coming in clear blue skies before it kills them.

> Carl Larson, an Iraq veteran who was born in Seattle and served in Ukraine's International Legion, said that the huge presence of drones is "a horrendous detriment to morale."

The principal source of shock and terror for these guys aren't in fact the drones.

What's most demoralizing for American and other Western veterans volunteering their services to Ukraine is having to fight against an enemy that can make contact against you as intensely, precisely and persistently as you engage them, if not more so, without the means to call for CAS or MEDAVAC at will.

The overwhelming majority of these guys couldn't rationally fathom what a "peer to peer fight" entailed, until they were getting blown up on the battlefield.
 

pmc

Colonel
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Russia sold Syria in exchange US to curb military aid to Ukraine. Iran hurried to cut its tail.
Syria time was up regardless of anything happening in Ukraine. you can already observe Gulf Monarchies establish more effective relationship with Syria and that Israel is more than satisfied. without too much going into history It was Soviet Mistake to get attached to countries like Syria and many others like it because Soviet intellectual at the time thought that these are modern as apposed to Gulf Monarchies who derived legitimacy from religion.
 

Minm

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China and Russia should have done more to help Assad defend Syria. This gonna come bite them in the ass.
The Syrian army collapsed because of poverty. The terrorist regions were richer than the government held areas because of Turkish support. Soldiers who aren't paid well, won't fight well. China could have changed this but chose not to get involved.

China doesn't seem to be comfortable investing for geopolitics rather than pure profit with only Pakistan, Laos and maybe Cambodia as exceptions where charity is disguised as investment
 

Randomuser

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Frankly people should stop hyping up the Uighur terrorist threat. Yeah they’re killers but what makes them supermen from anyone else? It’s the psychology that they are is what makes any terrorist powerful when they’re most likely just a bunch of uneducated idiots. That’s what the US is trying to do against China. Does anyone really think the US is going to actually employ terrorists against China and advertise it? Like using terrorists is somehow fair and the US cannot be blamed for their actions? That’s the risk which also includes making it okay for any other country to employ terrorists against the US if they want to take that road.

Americans look at it through their own lens where terrorists get due process and are protected which is frustrating for them and they want China to experience that. All because they have to show the world that they care about human rights. If they don’t, the world doesn’t follow them. But they forget China will just shoot them down on the street like a rabid dog because they don’t care about human rights over there. That’s what makes terrorism so scary for Americans while in China it’s not the same. Also because Americans think their lives are so much more valuable than anyone else’s that there’s a paranoia that engulfs and paralyzes them because they don’t want to lose their precious life. Then they get angry because no one is doing anything to protect them blaming other people… blaming the politicians slowly eating away at their society. All that goes on with an American and that’s what they want to inflict on the Chinese because if they have to suffer it, they want the Chinese to suffer it as well.

That’s what the US is trying to do too wanting to make Chinese think they’re going to unleash the Japanese Empire on the Chinese so China better do what Americans say… Japanese weren’t special. They can be killed like any Chinese and today especially so. China has that capability and they know it. That’s what’s holding the Japanese back and Americans as well from unleashing their powerful military upon the world that they like to threaten because they’re actually as mortal as everyone else. They’re the ones afraid of losing their more important in their own eyes life that holds them back. That’s why terrorism doesn’t work as well on the Chinese like it does on Americans. Do you see terrorists around the world itching to target China like they do with the US? No, so don’t think like a conceited American.
Yeah this is something I never really understood. They're being hyped as if they are Chechens. Chechens as we know are people who really love fighting for some reasons. In combat sports or in war. With guys like Satiev, Beterbiev and Chimaev, they punch way above their weight for a 1 million population. In fact they join both sides just so they make it interesting as they fight each other.

Uyghurs on the other hand are farmers(not nomads like people think) and they do not have the same reputations. In sports, I have observed they are more into sports that involve longer distance stamina rather than explosive combat oriented stuff. If you look how aggressive people in their central Asian neighbors act like Uzbeks or Kazakhs, you will realize how sedentary they are. Sorry to any Uyghur lurkers on this forum if that offends you.

There's a reason the terrorists are in Syria instead of Xinjiang or even Central Asia. Coz over there as tradition states, you start shit, you better be prepared to pay with your life. No excuses or whatever. Can't go around killing civilians so easily compared to war torn Syria.
 
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4Tran

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Why the US regime keeps underestimating China:

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There are three broad categories of China experts. The first group knows Chinese and reads the minutae of Chinese white papers and government publications. The second group has travelled to China and gotten an instinctual feel for broad subjects like industry and the people through experience. The third group get all of their information from English language publications written by other Western experts and say the things that Americans like to hear. There is a special word for people like this: useless!

As long as American planners pay attention to what that third category of "experts" say, there is no way that they can understand China.

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well, what do you guys think of this assertion?
I don't think that he's ever seen American democracy.
 
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