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looking forward to it op always wanted to see a type 99a up close
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Most of those war gaming whining is just so the US Military can demand a even bigger budget. Also if there's any sign of a hilarious credibility gap for what the US military performs in the real world, look at how the US pretty much lost the war on terror including the recent complete rout in Afganistan. Even without the sleepy Joe decision, the ANA/Central government was already seeing a rapid turnover in terms of provinces over the year.
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 20:07 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-apparently-gets-its-rear end-handed-to-it-in-war-games-2019-3
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 05:39 |
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know what the us military has demonstrated it can do. establish supply chains to anywhere.
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 06:44 |
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:In every case I know of, the F-35 rules the sky when it's in the sky," Robert Work, a former deputy secretary of defense "I'm definitely not a guy with vested interests making a weasel statement!" Palladium has issued a correction as of 06:54 on Dec 12, 2021 |
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Superiority? What superiority? Having actual jets compared to the GLA's postal service, never responsible for damaged goods? Last war we fought on even remotely equal ground with someone was either WWII or Korea. Like seriously, we are totally unprepared for an actual Great Power war with someone because we've gotten so used to kicking the asses of/getting our asses kicked by farmers with AK-47s Edit: Wait, just remembered the Persian Gulf War. Technically Iraq was a modernized military I guess. Yuli Ban has issued a correction as of 08:19 on Dec 12, 2021 |
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Yuli Ban posted:Edit: Wait, just remembered the Persian Gulf War. Technically Iraq was a modernized military I guess. Not really, Iraq despite having impressive numbers on paper was nowhere close to western training and equipment. Most of the Iraqi military was poorly trained and motivated conscripts, so hardly a "near peer" conflict That's why all the major battles of the Persian Gulf such as 73 Easterling ended up turkey shoots for the US military.
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 15:26 |
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dta I guess dtus in this case
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 23:16 |
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Mantis42 posted:you could post that in every c-spam thread Uhhhh... pardon?
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 23:53 |
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i will give a passionate blowjob to anyone who spills state secrets or military intel with the chinese professional grade, free of charge
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 03:33 |
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The Demilich posted:Uhhhh... pardon? They eat children
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 03:40 |
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they stole like all the security clearances a while back. I remember getting that email and being pretty pissed.
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 03:41 |
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Mantis42 posted:They eat children man a lot has happened in club music since 2007
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 03:49 |
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The Demilich posted:Uhhhh... pardon? lots of Pittbull apologists out there and they have friends in the mod community
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 05:47 |
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Filthy Hans posted:lots of Pittbull apologists out there and they have friends in the mod community i didn't realize pitbull was into the underage
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 05:48 |
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That Spooky Witch posted:i didn't realize pitbull was into the underage Should have been obvious when the CIA got him on on their latest anti-cuba scheme.
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 08:02 |
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The US already won WWIII and WWIV It's WWV that's looking dicey
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Palladium posted:I mean like, c'mon dude, you are already failing so hard at handling shipping containers at mere 4% volume of one of your boogeyman's ports and you want to fight them at their doorstep? Like, this was America's whole thing in WW2, using industry to out produce your enemy, and they don't have to ship it across the Pacific to use it.
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# ? Dec 18, 2021 10:45 |
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Mantis42 posted:They eat children pitbull threads let the average joe make "despite making up 5% of the dog population..." posts despiteposters need an outlet
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# ? Dec 18, 2021 13:53 |
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etalian posted:Not really, Iraq despite having impressive numbers on paper was nowhere close to western training and equipment. Easterlings were always meh imo, now if the US faced off against the Haradrim...
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skooma512 posted:, and they don't have to ship it across the Pacific to use it. international trade happens because the USN allows it to. being regionally challenged doesn’t change that. and as vessels have gotten larger it’s more true than it was in the past.
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# ? Dec 18, 2021 23:21 |
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hence China building land trade networks via the Belt and Road initiative. China are future proofing everything about themselves while the West (mostly US, UK and Aus) collectively piss and moan about China stepping on their toes.
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# ? Dec 18, 2021 23:37 |
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It's also why China is developing a blue water surface navy, even if in a real conflict it'd be useless. China needs to be able to challenge the US on the open oceans to have an international deterrent, and you can't really interdict shipping with submarines.
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3 million TEUs per year by 2040 is not as much as you think it is. look at it this way in 2015 there was about 15 million TEUs of slots on the vessels that make up world container fleet. figure 150 to 200 million TEUs per year based on that. belt and road will still be relatively small in 2040 compared to where ships were in 2015.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:3 million TEUs per year by 2040 is not as much as you think it is. There is no "shipping" to landlocked countries in central Asia. Everything has to get there by plane, train, or truck.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's also why China is developing a blue water surface navy, even if in a real conflict it'd be useless. China needs to be able to challenge the US on the open oceans to have an international deterrent, and you can't really interdict shipping with submarines. at-least not with the little diesel electric ones that are such a real brown water threat. they don’t need to challenge the US, just to step in if we fell apart.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:There is no "shipping" to landlocked countries in central Asia. Everything has to get there by plane, train, or truck. almost always after it first travels by vessel though.
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# ? Dec 18, 2021 23:54 |
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the important thing about belt and road is that they are thinking of the intermodal system as a system. while we imagine some imaginary harmony will emerge from private companies.
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# ? Dec 18, 2021 23:56 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's also why China is developing a blue water surface navy, even if in a real conflict it'd be useless. China needs to be able to challenge the US on the open oceans to have an international deterrent, and you can't really interdict shipping with submarines. Also, if they have the means to stage an amphibious invasion of Taiwan (and maybe actually use it on Kinmen) that might be enough to turn the screws on a political and economic reunification push.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Also, if they have the means to stage an amphibious invasion of Taiwan (and maybe actually use it on Kinmen) that might be enough to turn the screws on a political and economic reunification push. they got ships that look like these: they’ll need those for that
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# ? Dec 19, 2021 00:01 |
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those were the Russians btw
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# ? Dec 19, 2021 00:02 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:at-least not with the little diesel electric ones that are such a real brown water threat. What I mean by "challenging" the US is presenting a dangerous threat to the USN in international waters. Which is enough of a deterrent to make us think twice about trying to do piracy with Chinese shipping. Which I suppose is a moot point anyway, because global demand for Chinese goods is already so high that loving with their shipping creates too many knock-on problems. The dependency is its own deterrent.
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# ? Dec 19, 2021 00:09 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:. The dependency is its own deterrent. we can’t have a war for this reason. we can each effectively annihilate each other via different means because of our interdependency. if we implode politically though, that’s a different situation.
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# ? Dec 19, 2021 00:31 |
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The possibility that we degenerate to the point where we're willing to start a war regardless is very real. That's true. That's really the problem I have with trying to articulate to people why they shouldn't be WW3 or nuclear annihilation doompillers. You're thinking as if these are certainties and not possibilities. The reality of the possibility doesn't equate to its inevitability. You're leading yourself into unnecessary despair.
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# ? Dec 19, 2021 00:34 |
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we all know the actual war will be when a group of rogue colonels steal VX rockets that have the deadly string-of-pearls formation
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:That's really the problem I have with trying to articulate to people why they shouldn't be WW3 or nuclear annihilation doompillers. You're thinking as if these are certainties and not possibilities. The reality of the possibility doesn't equate to its inevitability. You're leading yourself into unnecessary despair. it’s a good way to analyze in general. possibilities with probabilities assigned.
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# ? Dec 19, 2021 00:58 |
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Anime Bernie Bro posted:pitbull threads let the average joe make "despite making up 5% of the dog population..." posts I'm so tired of the "pit bulls = black people" talking point used by "the pittie nation". Disingenuous garbage. Anyways a pit bull ripped a 4 year olds arm off today.
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i say swears online posted:we all know the actual war will be when a group of rogue colonels steal VX rockets that have the deadly string-of-pearls formation
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# ? Dec 19, 2021 08:17 |
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"you're the rocket man" Stanley Goodspeed, The Rock
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Next up from the think tanks: "Who would win, the virgin PLA or the chad omi-cheeselungs"
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