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This, right here. Even the tiniest of countries can give the biggest ones painful, bloody noses with enough diligence, intelligence, well-placed defenses and most importantly, motivation.
People think countries need super technology and weapons to draw a war to a stalemate or at least make it costly for the aggressor. However, with enough primitive tactics focusing on deep, well-constructed, earthen defenses, dispersal of assets, and focus on simple, defensive weapons, a country with barely any military whatsoever can make a country as big as the US think twice about attacking.
You don’t need a thousand stealth fighter jets and air defense out the wazoo to achieve this. You only need the right planning and, above all, the actual willingness and motivation to do so.
Watch any nature show, and you’ll see massive elephants frequently running away from much smaller lions at the slightest roar. Only when an aggressive elephant decides to turn the tables do the lions finally start doing the running.
You can have all the technology and power in the world, but if you’re not willing to use it, it’s all for nothing. You need to gamble and take risks sometimes.
Unfortunately for Venezuela, while they might have had somewhat of a decent military force, they had no will, and very poor planning. Forget about keeping assets, military or otherwise, dispersed, underground or in protective shelters, they didn’t even bother to put their nation’s leader in a bunker during all this. Hell, I don’t think they even bothered to relocate him when they knew his location was close enough to the coast for the enemy’s helicopter to just swoop in and grab him. It was over before it even started. They didn’t even really want to fight to begin with.
Unfortunately, like all bullies, this will only serve to embolden the US. On the bright side, US drooling lapdog vassals are next on the menu, which will be quite satisfying to watch when it finally happens. Let them get their reward for being such obedient servants to a country like the US.
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Japanese nuclearization is not an existential issue for China. In fact, this can only help China in the long term: 1) it will make Japan more independent of the US, which increases the chance it becomes a neutral party, 2) it will make it easy to justify accelerating China's own nuclear build up, as the West now has lost its strongest argument against China's nuclear build-up, 3) it'll open the box to sharing nuclear weapons with US opponents.
Obviously, China should still flip a table over it and use it as leverage to 1) punish Japan where it benefits China, 2) excuse its own nuclear build-up above parity with the US, 3) proliferate nuclear weapons to US opponents like Iran and Cuba. Let the US panic & sweat over the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world, as this can only make it harder for a global imperial power to exert its will via military means, which is what the US does, but not what China does.
The only exception here is if nuclear weapons somehow make it into the hands of Taiwan. THAT does require a military response.
Obviously, China should still flip a table over it and use it as leverage to 1) punish Japan where it benefits China, 2) excuse its own nuclear build-up above parity with the US, 3) proliferate nuclear weapons to US opponents like Iran and Cuba. Let the US panic & sweat over the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world, as this can only make it harder for a global imperial power to exert its will via military means, which is what the US does, but not what China does.
The only exception here is if nuclear weapons somehow make it into the hands of Taiwan. THAT does require a military response.
If you ignore the fact that several former Japanese officials made statements stating they would invade China when they have the chance.
The whole point of the U.S. trying to stake the western hemisphere as their own and trying to get China and Russia to accept this state of affairs is akin to how the song dynasty made the fatal strategic error of accepting Coexistence and de facto spheres of influence with the Jin and Liao despite the inevitable constant warring when the song should have eaten bitterness and destroyed them when they could.
oh and about all that Venezuelan oil…
I’m glad I got into the CATL IPO last year, very good.
oh and about all that Venezuelan oil…
I’m glad I got into the CATL IPO last year, very good.
Nuclear weapons doesn't provide them the chance. Can't use nuclear black mail against a country with far more nukes and territory. If you nuke Japan's major cities (of which there's only a dozen or so), it's basically over for them, while the loss of China's major cities would still leave most of the country and population in tact.
The Japanese are savage, but not suicidal. Why did they surrender to the US? It's because they didn't want their people to be annihilated, which they certainly would be in a nuclear war.
the terrorists are preparing to attack another country
The Americans are masters at punching first to devastating effect, however if you survive the first rounds and drag them to the middle of the swamp they'll tap out, their system can't handle attrition. I think the world has gotten soft because of years of relative stability, this has lulled folks into a false sense of security and weakened the warrior spirit. What's that saying about good times make weak men.
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Meanwhile, two first ladies:
Good question.
LMAO tweet of the day: he believes his Falun Gong friends very much, obviously.