Taiwan Elects Separatist President

Nothing there to disagree with except I don't think the Russians could have been deterred and I don't think we could have intervened there militarily anyway

 

From a Taiwanese analyst …

 

The truth is always found in the middle. For decades we spent hundreds of billions to keep the paper military of Russia contained. We are just changing horses.

 

Russia has been fighting for nearly two years with one hand tied behind its back. That’s not the US containing Russia so much as Putin not being the wild eyed megalomaniac which is his caricature but which more closely describes the ideologues in our State Department.

 

Most every ship in our computers come from Taiwan, among other computer parts a technologies... what comes from the Ukraine again? Money laundering, form a dictator/communist that arrests his opposition political rivals? Yeah... that Ukrainian leader is a bad actor, pun intended.

 

Deep dive political analysis of the election. Nothing earth shattering but interesting

Taiwan Election Results: How Lai won, what China thinks, and what’s at stake for the DPP

 

So Xi uses foreign press to put people on notice. Yep that is the subtlety we expect from xi

 

Yellow Peril ?

 

I got some swamp land to sell both of you if you think China can hold a candle to us in a straight up Naval warfare. Seems like you guys are googling around and posting the first article you see that tries to go along with your position on the matter. Unfortunately for you guys, numbers mean nothing in this case and its all about the details. They have a number advantage in irrelevant ships. We have superiority where it counts. Carriers, destroyers, subs, air superiority, and technology. Not to mention experience. You aren't just going to pump out a ton of ships and think you will magically get a crew to properly man it anyway.

Even today - we are far beyond anything they could try to bring to the table. They have 3 carriers to our 11. Carriers own the sea. If we dedicated just a couple of strike groups we could win a war with their Navy, much less have a 1 on 1 against China with our whole fleets involved.

This is not debateable.

 

This strike group alone would give China fits lmao

 

I see what you were trying to do here, but Biden was inaugurated on Jan 20, 2021.

 

Not what I was trying to do.

Did you read the post I replied to???

 

Politicians own militaries.

They own ours.

Their tentacles also reach the controls of our satellites.

Money's a powerful force.

Sleep tight.

 

Certainly true. But I would think it would indicate China isn't in a great place to launch a military attack in the short term.