Taintrunner posted:

Like I said, this is about 2037. My napkin math, which is probably way off, comparing cargo ships to a modern naval vessel, would round out to about 4-5 days. Jam some satellites, blame it on Starlink debris, whatever the gently caress it takes to buy you as much time as possible. Which gets into the interesting question of a naval shooting war, it's been nearly a loving century since the last one, and the technology has rapidly shifted, but the reality of aircraft carriers being virtually defenseless tin cans still stands. The Chinese navy has 335 vessels as of today against the 296 vessels of the US Navy, and the Chinese would rapidly expand in force projection capability between now and a hypothetical 2037 scenario. Again, I think the best guess is sheer loving numbers, which is what any nonsensical Chinese Red Dawn scenario would have to consider.

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The second operation takes them to Russia in order to rescue one of their allies, a Russian informant named Nikolai working within the Ultranationalist party. Assisted by Russian loyalist forces, Price's team succeeds in rescuing Nikolai. However, their helicopter is later brought down, forcing the group to make their way through enemy territory with support from an AC-130 gunship before they can be extracted. Intelligence gathered from these two missions indicates that Al-Asad may be in possession of a Russian nuclear device.

In the evening of the third day, the U.S. launches a full-scale assault on Al-Asad's presidential palace, aware of the SAS warning about the possible nuclear device. As U.S. Navy SEALs invade the palace, the Marines engage Al-Asad's ground forces. The assault, however, ends in catastrophe when the nuclear device suddenly detonates, wiping out most of the city along with everyone in it.

Refusing to assume Al-Asad dead, Price's strike team supported by Russian loyalists raids a potential safe house in a village in Azerbaijan to eradicate the occupying Russian forces and capture Al-Asad. Shortly into the interrogation, Al-Asad's phone rings. After hearing the voice of the caller, Price executes Al-Asad and reveals that the caller was the leader of the ultranationalists: Imran Zakhaev. Price informs his squad about his assassination mission against Zakhaev in Pripyat, Ukraine in 1996. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Zakhaev took advantage of the turmoil to profit from nuclear proliferation and used his new wealth to lure soldiers from the Soviet Army to form his ultranationalist party. Price, then a lieutenant, and his superior, Captain MacMillan, were sent on a black operation to eliminate him. Making their way through Pripyat and into Chernobyl, the two reached their vantage point in an abandoned hotel, with Price firing upon Zakhaev with a Barrett M82 sniper rifle; however, the shot only severed Zakhaev's arm. Price and MacMillan barely escaped Zakhaev's henchmen.

Following the death of Al-Asad, Price's team hold off against Ultranationalist forces who arrive to avenge him. Later, a joint task force, composed of the SAS, Force Recon, and the loyalists, attempt to capture Zakhaev's son, Victor, to learn Zakhaev's whereabouts. After ambushing him in an enemy convoy at a vehicle checkpoint, Victor flees the scene but is soon cornered on the roof of an apartment building. Refusing to surrender, he commits suicide. Enraged, Zakhaev retaliates by taking control of a nuclear launch facility.

An operation is launched by the task force to take back the site from Zakhaev's forces via halo jump. However, Zakhaev promptly launches nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles at the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, with the potential of causing 41 million casualties.

pentyne posted:

Sea power is based on aircraft carrier fleets.

China has a single rust bucket of a aircraft carrier they can sail around the bay for a few hours before it has to be towed back and duct taped back to functional.

Their pilots get 1/50 of the flight time that US pilots get.

The US Navy and Airforce would literally be shooting fish in a barrel once the ships pass the point of any air power force projection from mainland China.

T-man posted:

who would win: china or goku

Taintrunner posted:

Not a single liberal has a loving answer for what to do about QAnon, even if Biden somehow wins, and they sure as gently caress are not going away anytime soon. Folding Ideas spends about an hour going into detail about the progression of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists into full-blown QAnon lunatics, and what they're all about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

To save your time and cut to the point - what Dan gets into is the idea that Flat Earth Theory (and now QAnon) is not about convincing people that the world is flat. It's about hammering the earth flat. It's all insane, and they know this. It's nothing but pure blunt force ideology of embracing strongman fascism. And these quisling loving liberals have zero answer or any way to formulate opposition to it. Hell, most leftists don't either. And there's really nothing stopping them now from radicalizing more and more people as neoliberalism has pledged to do nothing but grow the austerity cesspool from which fascism ferments in.

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Thanks, I tried to watch that video last week and I couldn’t get to the point of it because I realized I wasn’t going to watch a dude talk about flat earth poo poo over a lake travel vlog for an hour and 15.

Taintrunner posted:

oh you missed out, it goes some loving places. the twist about halfway through of oh yeah nobody gives a poo poo about flat earth anymore and they all jumped ship to qanon was a legitimately great reveal

T-man posted:

who would win: china or goku

Antonymous posted:

I just finished the whole wiki and it says stuff like "expert testified that George Anthony did not make phone calls to Casey, but then later admitted he did not know George Anthony had a second phone"

Taintrunner posted:

T-man posted:

I'm not in the top 100 for posts per day in cspam

Taintrunner posted:

Not a single liberal has a loving answer for what to do about QAnon, even if Biden somehow wins, and they sure as gently caress are not going away anytime soon. Folding Ideas spends about an hour going into detail about the progression of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists into full-blown QAnon lunatics, and what they're all about.

Taintrunner posted:

In the chaos, paratroopers are deployed to secure every active nuclear missile silo before CENTCOM can formulate an organized response.

Taintrunner posted:

Day 0 - Chinese special forces, acting in a manner similar to Green Berets backing hard right coups in Latin America, silently appear and promise aid, arms, and direct support to socialist rifle militias across the country

Tiler Kiwi posted:

immediately turning my Chinese supplied antimaterial rifle to blowing up the computers of bad posters

Paladinus posted:

North Korea will occupy China before they deploy a singly military unit in North America.

spacemang_spliff posted:

Mods struck taintrunner down and he has returned more powerful than they could possibly imagine

Crazycryodude posted:

How did they get 30 million troops across the Pacific?

pentyne posted:

It'll just be like when Taiwan was just running over PLA troops with tanks after they ran out of ammunition because there was nothing the PLA could do to stop them.