I just started watching his videos a month or two ago. He has more knowledge and foresight about the world and geopolitics than almost every talking head on MSM.
It is definitely very tempting to assume that the PLA is incapable of putting up a fight against US forces due to lack of combat experience since 1979. It is even more tempting to assume that an average PLA infantry and pilot would be inferior to the USMC infantry/pilot due to lack of realtime combat experience and high-quality gears. However, one cannot overlook the massive 2015-2020 PLA reform. The reform did re-equip the 2-million strong military with lots of new gears and completely brought about a new command structure. Never underestimate a potential foe, because your current experience may not be useful against new ones.
It will take time for those reforms to bed in though, and there is still the lack of recent combat experience in the PLA. That said, the kind of wars the US has been fighting bear little relevance to a war with the PLA in the SCS/ECS - there's been very little air to air, armoured or naval combat, for example in the last 40 years. The extensive experience of the British and French armies in 'brushfire' colonial wars in the 1920s and 1930s didn't help them against the German Blitzgreig in 1940.
I don't know how US combat experience of bombing primitive savages that have no air defense or occupying urban areas against suicide bombers or guerilla-warfare can help US in pitched seabattles around Taiwan or South China Sea contigency. These Western analysis have an IQ of a peapod. Zero self-reflection and awareness.
Just like the Boer War and other counter-insurgencies that the Brits fought during the 1890s and 1900s did little to prepare the Empire against the onslaught of the Kaiser's imperial army (and Navy, despite having fewer capital ships). Had the United States not entered WWI, Germany may have had a good shot at overthrowing Pax Britannica.
It's amazing when you've money, you can express your opinons so freely. If only the ordinary folks have the same access and voice to express their opinions as the man with money. Democracy working at it's best! Lol
Ironic part is 70% of Americans support withdrawal from Afghanistan, but you would NEVER know that reading Western mainstream media. That just proves that corporate media don't represent the will of the American people, but the will of the American elite and warmongering class. It's also why American public trust in mainstream media hit an all-time low. For reference, in 2019, US dropped record-breaking 7400 bombs that killed over 1500 people (including 600 civilians collaterals), but there was only 24 minutes of prime-time TV coverage on Afghanistan by three major networks. Basically, US media doesn't give a SHIT about Afghanistan, want to stay in Afghanistan forever and forever because they arewarmonger imperialist pricks.
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Hendrik_2000
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Well the deep state promise to turn on the heat on China There is this one airforce general that want to built Gee whiz weapon to scare China. the response come quick Here it is
Chinese military ‘not afraid of suffering, death’ after US vows to intimidate enemies
- United States Air Force secretary Frank Kendall had said the US would keep investing in tech that ‘will be intimidating to future enemies’
- China’s forces will not be cowed, spokesman says, citing Korean war and shooting down of US aircraft in the 1960s
- Chinese Air Force Firmly Safeguards Air Security: Spokesman
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The US is really butt-hurting right now when they talk up confrontation against China right after their failure in Afghanistan. You know they lost when you see the right talk about how they lost to themselves not the Taliban. They're using how politicians tied their hands behind their backs excuse like they did with Vietnam. They just want to kill every one in sight to show'em how tough they are and save face. I think the Soviets were brutal and did they succeed? US and British special forces now want permission to stay in Afghanistan to avenge the 13 that died. That's a human rights massacre waiting to happen. If they knew where all of them are, they would've eliminated them already meaning if they stayed to seek vengeance, they would be killing people they just suspected. And they're waiting for the Taliban to give permission...? Yeah they know that isn't going to happen so they're just saying it to save face. It's like Ian Bremmer right after Kabul fell said in an interview that Biden should've set up a fake negotiation with China to get them involved like in drone strikes and then when Kabul falls they can lay the blame on China for the failure in Afghanistan. How? First of all hindsight is 20/20. The US never thinks failure can happen to them so they wouldn't have thought up such a back-up plan in the first place. They admit they are capable of such lies to the world. And now they're writing how China is going fail in Afghanistan as in sending troops in after the US. Why would China send in troops? It's all a distraction from their failure in Afghanistan.
Some thoughts on Climate Change and US-China competition.
In a cold war competition scenario, there's no point in China aggressively pursuing lower emissions.
Solar is currently still more expensive than coal inside China, but this is changing. Give it another 5-10 years.
In a cold war competition scenario, there's no point in China aggressively pursuing lower emissions.
Solar is currently still more expensive than coal inside China, but this is changing. Give it another 5-10 years.