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taxiya said:

Taking on her partial American lineage as an issue is racism. Racisim in its core is about taking genetic heritage as a worthy factor into anything.

I think you know nothing about China's thousands years history where we have plenty of "foreign" blood contributing to what Chinese is today. Name a few, Tang dynasty imperial familty started as half "foreign" Xianbei/proto-mongolic. 唐太宗/Taizong's priminister 长孙无忌/Zhangsun Wuji was Xianbei descent. The famous general 高仙之/Gao Xianzhi who faught Arabic caliphate in central Asia and latter to supress rebellions was from 高句丽/Goguryeo. While the rebel 安禄山/An Lushan was a Sogodian. Generals fought on the side of the emperor 哥舒翰/Geshu Han was a Turk, 李光弼/Li Guangbi was Khitan.

Bloodline was NEVER really something Chinese cared in most of our histroy except some people influnced by the west recently. If Chinese cared about it Chinese would not have existed.

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Chinese was always a cultural concept, not a racial one.

诸侯用夷礼则夷之，进于中国则中国之。

Expert1324 said:

I was told that the US wargame is deliberately designed as "being very hard on themselves", thats why the result means nothing and the US is still much stronger than China. I was also told that there is hidden technology in Area 51 that far surpassed any human intelligence, this is why the F-47 is still in the PPT stage.

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I think the Pentagon has been REALLY underestimating the size and growth rate of China arsenal for decades and they are NOT taking into account the civilian participation in a war effort, that could be massive if there is a mobilization.

meedicx said:

Americans should question corruption in their own military. There was a recent case of a low-level civilian employee who got caught stealing over $100M from the military using the very low tech method of depositing cheques meant for military families straight into her own bank account. The most concerning part is that it's not even the military that caught her but the IRS due to her buying too many expensive mansions.

It's scary to think how actual effective actual higher up people in the US military can steal money with more sophisticated money laundering techniques, if an obvious case like this one didn't even get caught by their system.

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A lot of people think if the generals don't get charged with corruption then that means there must be no corruption.

I mean that's one way to think about it. But that's very surface level and dangerous mindset.

tokenanalyst said:

I think the Pentagon has been REALLY underestimating the size and growth rate of China arsenal for decades and they are NOT taking into account the civilian participation in a war effort, that could be massive if there is a mobilization.

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Not only that, the truest level of comprehensive compentence shows itself at the bottom level upwards, not only at the top, which is why the US underestimation of Chinese capabilities is bigger than just ordnance stockpiles.

Randomuser said:

A lot of people think if the generals don't get charged with corruption then that means there must be no corruption.

I mean that's one way to think about it. But that's very surface level and dangerous mindset.

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Obviously naming both the next gen fighter and a whole class of warship after the current living president is not corruption at all.

Phead128 said:

US would not be pivoting to homeland security and Western hemisphere if it was already "much stronger" than China and ceding Asia-Pacific to China.

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America and Israel are trying to take as much as they can before China becomes too strong for them.

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...doesn't seem like much has changed with the Department of Defense War's strategic goals. BBC just being hyperbolic as usual with their headlines, but that's the standard for pommie propaganda, I suppose.

I can see LoE #1 being successful since Trump's hell-bent on crowing himself as governor of the new South America Trading Company™ of the unified Americas. Rubio and Miller will have no difficulty becoming viceroys of South and North America (respectively).

LoE #3 remains to be seen since EU countries are increasing spending, but not in the way that will benefit the U.S. in the long run.

LoE #4 is 100% going to fail like all administrations before Trump (including his first administration). The corruption issues and grifting that plagued the American defence industry , and will only get worse now that the AI techbros are involved.

Which leaves LoE #2...containing China but also not confronting China...somehow. Which is an oxymoron since the NDS states that the DoW will "[...] build, posture, and sustain a strong denial defense along the FIC." You can't achieve that without confronting China, so nothing has fundamentally changed from the Biden administration.

Randomuser said:

A lot of people think if the generals don't get charged with corruption then that means there must be no corruption.

I mean that's one way to think about it. But that's very surface level and dangerous mindset.

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The U.S. legalized bribery within its own government by simply classifying it as ‘corporate lobbying’. They’re the masters of corruption. Every single person within its military and political leadership is corrupt.

delfer said:

America legalized bribery within its own government by simply classifying it as ‘corporate lobbying’. They’re the masters of corruption. Every single person within its military and political leadership is corrupt.

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It’s worse than that. With the possible exception of Macron almost every member of the rule based disorder elites is complicit in ritualistic kid diddling.