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plawolf

plawolf

Lieutenant General
siegecrossbow said:
Just remember one thing -- the longer it takes before Starship succeeds, the longer it takes for the parasite class to voluntarily exile themselves to Mars.
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You think they will let a little thing like them being on Mars stop them from continuing to suck the rest of us dry? If anything, they will suck harder to fund their interplanetary jaunts.
 
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dingyibvs

Senior Member
CMP said:
Fighting directly would be the last resort anyways. If the rumors of Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon are real, China can simply threaten to completely shut down all US civilian infrastructure (electrical, internet, communications, etc.) via cyber and completely halt all rare earth metal & magnet exports in response to US threats (use of force or naval blockade of critical sea lines of communication). Throttling oil imports from the middle east to China also isn't as huge of a deal now that there are alternative oil pipelines from Russia. Hence one additional reason (on top of the rest of the obvious ones) why the US wants to split Russia away from China. Given some of the Stans are now part of those alternative supply lines for gas/oil, I am sure they're on the eventual regime change list as well.

As for what China can or can't manage, the real question is whether it's wise to deploy overseas. My vote is clearly on no. One piece of China's appeal to the global south is the lack of military adventurism. Military adventurism has historical been a stepping stone towards imperial or societal collapse regardless, so I see it as nothing but negative for China..
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It would certainly be a last step, I see many intermediate steps before that would be necessary or desirable. In a hot war though, you cannot be worried about the optics of overseas deployment.
 
Helius

Helius

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dingyibvs said:
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The Tang, Qing, and the Mongols all managed to get large armies to that region, and the US managed to sustain a land army in Afghanistan from half the globe away. If any country can manage the infrastructure and logistics to do so, I'd think China could.
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Well this isn't sending horses and guys in scalemail from 中原 to 西域, though. You're talking transporting missiles the size of the Pantheon columns, TELs, radars, command modules... the whole shebang, through the Karakoram into Hamalayan Pakistan. How are you gonna accomplish that?

When the US was in Afghanistan, they didn't have Patriot missiles or THAADs at Outpost Keating or Camp Bastion either.

What they had was this -

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dingyibvs

Senior Member
Phead128 said:
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan would need to allow Chinese army safe passage to Iran for this to mimic Tang, Qing, Yuan power projection. You are right , modern China can replicate this route. But you suggested Pakistan land routes to Iran didn't you? Xinjiang to Pakistan route is extremely difficult.



The Karakoram mountains are the
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behind Himalayas mountain range, transporting a large army through some the most rugged and desolate terrains on earth is much more difficult than US transporting troops on naval ships to Pakistan. It's logistical orders of magnitude more difficult.
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I see, perhaps that's what's needed then, transit through the CARs.
 
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