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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

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Hoard old electronics now before the blockade/invasion of taiwan happens and strangles semiconductor supplies

I read an extremely depressing article about the UK wargaming this scenario and poo poo will get pretty hosed up

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China isn't going to attack Taiwan anytime soon. Y'all been listening to way too many right-wing pundits. The Chinese military is a complete loving joke that has no way to invade Taiwan, never mind cope with the goatse-dwarfing rear end stretching that would promptly commence courtesy of the US Navy.

China still buys their fighter jet engines from Russia. Russia, the country which has utterly failed to conquer a much smaller country that DOESN'T have a loving ocean between them or important economic ties to the US, by and large has better military technology and manufacturing capability than China.

The US government has been incredibly successful at strangling the Chinese economy. Lots of poo poo is made in China - with machines made outside of China, in US-aligned countries. As long as that remains the case, China is not ever going to be a military superpower, and even if it were it would have literally decades of catching up to the US to do, not to mention trying to match the hilariously huge US spending.

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I don’t know why anyone is surprised by China doing that, they’ve been doing IP theft for literally decades. Huawei is built on the bones of Nortel and other telecom companies that china spied on back in the 90s.

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One would hope the math has changed a bit after the failed Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia's military went from being internationally perceived as a credible threat in conventional war to being clowned on by a motivated defender using donated prior-generation NATO surplus weapons and hobbyist drones dropping Soviet mortar rounds. They grossly underestimated the effect of international support and also had every deficiency in training, equipment, leadership and logistics exposed.

Both of those would make the prospect less appealing, but yeah, can't count on maniacs and governments to not sometimes do the obviously dumbest thing.

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China is absolutely intent on taking Taiwan, they have been banging on about it for years. It's not just something that's for domestic consumption, it is an actual CCP ambition and part of their core identity just like Putin's revanchism has been. People were convinced China would leave Hong Kong alone to its autonomy which was agreed with the British, and that's all up in smoke now.

May not be tomorrow, may not even be this decade. But a military attempt will happen someday it is just a matter of when not if.

for once, this syq is NOT from reddit

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Danann
Aug 4, 2013

GBS/D&D/GIP or Quora?

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Absolutely embarrassing dumb asses

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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we are winning against weak enemy who still gained massive tracts of land with nearly 1:10 KIA advantage

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Danann posted:

GBS/D&D/GIP or Quora?

SH/SC's Intel thread

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
yeah hoard used electronics it's not like every landfill is swimming in them

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

gradenko_2000 posted:

SH/SC's Intel thread

lol

Palladium
May 8, 2012

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gradenko_2000 posted:

SH/SC's Intel thread

susprise, techbros are full of shitlibs

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

gradenko_2000 posted:

SH/SC's Intel thread

lmfao at the us navy getting within striking distance of chinese shores for taiwan

Palladium
May 8, 2012

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http://b23.tv/YD0hQeM

world-class railroad in e'hai'e province, meiguo

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Some Guy TT posted:

listening to a woman on npr the other day who was adamant about the chinese balloons being used for evil spy purposes admitting when asked that there arent any obvious ways for an organization to even know their balloon was shot down as opposed to just being out of contact for any number of other completely random reasons

You are both wrong I'm sorry to inform you. China could simply use their spy satellites to ascertain whether or not the balloon was shot down.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_Office_space_telescope_donation_to_NASA?useskin=vector

the NRO (us spy satellite agency) gave nasa two of their old no longer used spy satellite to use as telescopes and they blew ubble or any of their non-james webb options away. I think those were two or more generartions back from the late 90s. Whatever the US and China have in orbit for spying are good as gently caress.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Well that's par for the course. Kind of like how much money US spend on military purposed space funding vs NASA funding.

I am sure part of the congress wants to privatize NASA, just sell it to SpaceX and let that guy write NASA's mission statement and press release.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

gradenko_2000 posted:

SH/SC's Intel thread

i love wehen tech smoothbrains voice their opiniosn about the world

they can just blockade taiwan and they win lmfao

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Cuttlefush posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_Office_space_telescope_donation_to_NASA?useskin=vector

the NRO (us spy satellite agency) gave nasa two of their old no longer used spy satellite to use as telescopes and they blew ubble or any of their non-james webb options away. I think those were two or more generartions back from the late 90s. Whatever the US and China have in orbit for spying are good as gently caress.
drat was enemy of the state right??

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Enemy of the State was a documentary

SideEffectShit
Oct 10, 2022

by Pragmatica

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-official-to-visit-taiwan-risking-new-strains-with-china-c4711994

i'm paywalled, but:

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U.S. officials described the coming visit by Michael Chase, deputy assistant secretary of defense for China,

not an assistant secretary but the assistant to the Assistant Secretary aka dwight schrute.



these people are fat as gently caress :btroll:

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Homeless Friend posted:

lmfao at the us navy getting within striking distance of chinese shores for taiwan

I look forward to what happens if they actually park q carrier in the Taiwan Straight

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1626684198147837954?s=20

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Homeless Friend posted:

incorrect. they first missile missed, it was $800,000

correction. it cost 2 million dollars lol

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011


:sickos:

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

"Investment banker" is such a bullshit concept.

Good riddance.

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

he's probably on vacation in the swiss alps or something

ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010

https://twitter.com/JohnSmi94424885/status/1626687538281992194?s=20

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Easiest MasterCard joke

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012


Lmao extremely good PR for china, thank you ny times

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Congress paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to people to write "China Bad" stories and the best they came up with is "The CPC is mean to rich people".

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWSfELZMBog

lol so this guy reckons that the pentagon got yelled at for not shooting down the chinese balloon quick enough so they're now just shooting down all the balloon that he can find make biden look like a moron

cenotaph
Mar 2, 2013



Politicians should be careful about ordering the military to blow up things that are full of hot gas. :dadjoke:

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Mantis42 posted:

Congress paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to people to write "China Bad" stories and the best they came up with is "The CPC is mean to rich people".

Rich people are the only type of people our government sees as fully human so Congress giving out money to write about the plight of the poor investment bankers fits

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/KyleTrainEmoji/status/1626455845407186944

how dare china mete out consequences to people of means

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
how could anyone do such a horrific crime of corrupting those beautiful trains. i hope they got executed by train

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Someone who is good at the economy please budget this. The Ohio river is dying.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
you can see him charging up like goku

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/MareikeOhlberg/status/1626626142294638600
https://twitter.com/MareikeOhlberg/status/1626626995558952961
https://twitter.com/MareikeOhlberg/status/1626628562055831552
https://twitter.com/MareikeOhlberg/status/1626629816782041091

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!
the labor party promises that the pervasive domestic surveillance network isn't going to be built by the spying Chinese 👍
https://twitter.com/benedictrogers/status/1626893424107433984

BEAR GRYLLZ
Jul 30, 2006

I have strong erections for Israel.
Strong, pathetic erections.

mawarannahr posted:

the labor party promises that the pervasive domestic surveillance network isn't going to be built by the spying Chinese 👍
https://twitter.com/benedictrogers/status/1626893424107433984

wow! thank goodness the uk government is protecting their massive network of CCTV surveillance cameras from those nasty authoritarian states

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


"concern"

Palladium
May 8, 2012

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lol why the gently caress would china want to spy at UK police stations

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:


idgi, websites block chinese ips all the time. at least as common as the great firewall does. chatgpt even blocks hong kong i noticed this week

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