I don't think those signals of China getting ready for a conflict necessarily mean they are going to fight against the United States (at least not directly). I sounds more reasonable to me Xi is getting ready to start a military operation on Taiwan and recover the island for it to be completely under the control of the CCP.
Let us remember there is an important percentage of the Republican party who believes the USA is not supposed to police the world and Ukraine and Taiwan are for them to be left at their own luck when facing invasions. The CCP could be planning to take advantage of such situation during the government of Trump or someone within the Republican party who will refuse to be hostile against Russia and China.
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You don't seem to grasp the significance of it so let me put it this way.
For example after the Great Escape, Taliban became the owner of the second largest Apache attack helicopter army in the world! That's how much they left behind... and that's just one of the things they left.
The BBC has a piece on that
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Pictures have emerged of Taliban fighters with military equipment left behind by US forces at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport.
A total of 73 aircraft, nearly 100 vehicles and other equipment were abandoned by US troops as they pulled out ahead of the 31 August deadline.
But US Central Command head Gen Kenneth McKenzie said it had all been rendered impossible to use.
"Those aircraft will never fly again," he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58393763A total of 73 aircraft, nearly 100 vehicles and other equipment were abandoned by US troops as they pulled out ahead of the 31 August deadline.
But US Central Command head Gen Kenneth McKenzie said it had all been rendered impossible to use.
"Those aircraft will never fly again," he said.
The article is followed by a list and I only have seen one Black hawk Helicopter on Youtube in the parade a year after the not so happily executed withdraw.
You have to understand that if your mind harbors hate your opinion will be tainted.
Dogmatic blinds people.
The biggest difference between Armees nowadays is their training. Some are trained most are untrained.
Reckless flying and arrogance helps to get shot down.
The US Air Force dev team connecting 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build a supercomputer helps to explain forward thinking. It saved the US Airforce some 15 million for a Supercomputer.
A political withdraw is hardly a run away. True there was no time to take out their hardware. Still the hardware was paid for and the US Armee is not drilled to save money. Rather the opposite.
You don't seem to grasp the significance of it so let me put it this way. For example after the Great Escape, Taliban became the owner of the second largest Apache attack helicopter army in the world! That's how much they left behind... and that's just one of the things they left.
Not to mention that a sample of everything that was left behind during the escape were given to the adversaries for research (finding vulnerabilities, reverse engineer if needed, etc.).
I haven't even gotten into all the classified stuff they left behind when they were escaping Afghanistan. From documents all the way to communication secrets.
What they physically left behind might have been in the billions of dollars but the damage to the US military was in the trillions...
One major damage for instance was for all the operations US military carries out using the locals. All those idiots who were cooperating with the US occupiers in any country around the world realized what US does to them after they saw Afghanistanians fall from US wide-win aircraft to their death, people who were promised US citizenship if they cooperated with their occupiers against their own country.
The subsequent major US military defeats in places like Syria, Iraq and even in Africa can be attributed to the Great Escape...
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How is this fitting in your narrative:
I don't know, you tell me how did that help US Air Force for example this morning when they lost another $40 million dollar aircraft after it entered Yemeni airspace. That's the 12th one that gets shot down easily over the past year. Quote
US Air Force connects 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build supercomputer
For the past two decades (at least) the US so called "firepower" has only existed in movies HolyWood is paid to produce, not in reality. Lest we forget, US military was defeated by cavemen in Afghanistan and they fled the country 3 years ago leaving behind $100 billion worth of weapons and equipment during their escape!
A political withdraw is hardly a run away. True there was no time to take out their hardware. Still the hardware was paid for and the US Armee is not drilled to save money. Rather the opposite.
How is this fitting in your narrative:
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US Air Force connects 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build supercomputer
This is admirable:
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About the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world right now is the US Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) newest system, which has a core made of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles. In addition to its large capacity, the so-called "Condor Cluster" is capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (TFLOPS), making it the fastest interactive computer in the entire US Defense Department.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html
They have been preparing for several years, but I think they will attack Taiwan sometime. But that's their business.
What will happen once the Chinese pass the US Firepower?
For the past two decades (at least) the US so called "firepower" has only existed in movies HolyWood is paid to produce, not in reality. Lest we forget, US military was defeated by cavemen in Afghanistan and they fled the country 3 years ago leaving behind $100 billion worth of weapons and equipment during their escape!Compared to most countries US military has nothing really useful anymore, it is just too expensive!
- The number of kids US Army can recruit sets a new low every year.
- The US Navy keeps decommissioning ships (17 last month) since they no longer have enough crew (China added 30 more ships to the Navy!).
- The US Airforce that was once ahead of the air-defense technology is now at least one generation behind it (to put simply US has no stealth aircraft anymore). Just look how easily their largest SEAD operation in history failed miserably exactly 2 weeks ago!
- They can't even produce enough weapons anymore (lacking artillery shells, missiles, missile defenses, armor, etc.)
One of my favorites is the $12 million joke called SM-3 (intercept missiles) which they can produce 12 of it per year. That is about 1 per month.
Iran alone can launch 12 ballistic missiles every 1.44 minutes (that is an average of 12000 per day for 5 years straight without running out of what is in storage already). Not that US made missile defenses (like SM-3 missiles) could intercept any of it as we've seen on 2024-04-13 and again on 2024-10-01, but even if they could succeed 100%, an entire year's production would only last for like 2 minutes
China is investing in military hardware.
Does anyone have credible information on training? TIKTTOK not being accepted.
Fitting Title:
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Eagle v Dragon
In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America
The modernisation of the PLA is proceeding at an extraordinary pace
Naval vessel Yantai docking at Yantai City, Shandong Province
In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America
The modernisation of the PLA is proceeding at an extraordinary pace
Naval vessel Yantai docking at Yantai City, Shandong Province
According to the author:
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The PLA is still far from being ready for war with America. China’s official aim is to “modernise” its armed forces by 2035 and make them world-class by 2049. But the PLA has already undergone an extraordinary transformation, from a poorly trained and ill-equipped force two decades ago to a regional power today. The old image of China’s armed forces as focusing on quantity over quality is increasingly outdated. In recent years China has improved the effectiveness of its arms to such an extent that, in some areas, it has already matched or surpassed America.
Source: https://www.economist.com/china/2024/11/04/in-some-areas-of-military-strength-china-has-surpassed-americaPaywallfree https://archive.ph/AxXt7
What will happen once the Chinese pass the US Firepower?
How are the war doctrines? Training and preparation vs
?China is a joke. The PLA is only there to oppress their own people. They know they wouldn't stand a chance against NATO. Western media outlets run these stories hyping China because it's good for views.
Look at it this way: Russia was #2 in military power and couldn't even handle Ukraine, which was like #60. China is considered even weaker than Russia.
The West has no competition.
China is investing in military hardware.
Does anyone have credible information on training? TIKTTOK not being accepted.
Fitting Title:
Quote
Eagle v Dragon
In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America
The modernisation of the PLA is proceeding at an extraordinary pace
Naval vessel Yantai docking at Yantai City, Shandong Province
In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America
The modernisation of the PLA is proceeding at an extraordinary pace
Naval vessel Yantai docking at Yantai City, Shandong Province
According to the author:
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The PLA is still far from being ready for war with America. China’s official aim is to “modernise” its armed forces by 2035 and make them world-class by 2049. But the PLA has already undergone an extraordinary transformation, from a poorly trained and ill-equipped force two decades ago to a regional power today. The old image of China’s armed forces as focusing on quantity over quality is increasingly outdated. In recent years China has improved the effectiveness of its arms to such an extent that, in some areas, it has already matched or surpassed America.
Source: https://www.economist.com/china/2024/11/04/in-some-areas-of-military-strength-china-has-surpassed-americaPaywallfree https://archive.ph/AxXt7
What will happen once the Chinese pass the US Firepower?
How are the war doctrines? Training and preparation vs
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