As I understand it, after the hostilities break out between our nations, Chinese AWAC staff will retire after one mission, somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific.
All kidding aside, I still think we’re having a great time underestimating China’s growing capabilities.
Could they mop the floor with us? Of course not. Could they cost us a growing number of our troops? I believe so.
I am reminded of the CIA’s lack of prediction that the Iron Curtain would fall. I am reminded that our intelligence told us Hussein had WMDs. I am reminded that folks think China is not a threat.
It is becoming a threat.
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1) Show how this was a falsehood as your tone intimates.
2) The arguments for the war were not that we knew from direct evidence that he possessed WMD's. Rather, the argument was that Hussein had the capability to quickly develop and field them, and also had the character to use them against us. Those two factors created a clear and present danger to the U.S. and our interests.
They have been a threat . . . in some respects . . . for some time.
Depends, of course, on the definition of “threat.”
They certainly have some nukes to threaten some key targets and population centers.
They have a massive number of containers and container ships in their PLA owned COSCO org. People who think that massive numbers of troops could not and would not be shipped thereby are . . . imho . . . idiots.
They don’t value . . . greatly . . . massive numbers of the lives of their own population . . .
They value egos, pride, control, !!!!POWER!!!! and the supremacy of THE CHINESE NATION, CULTURE. They see this as THE CHINESE CENTURY . . . some claim the CHINESE MILLENIA.
And they have absolutely no clue that it will be the Chinese Christians who inherit China . . . and that all memory and evidence of the evil rulers’ existence will be wiped totally off the face of the earth as though they had never lived. THAT would trouble them greatly, if they knew it and believed it.
They also must already and at least since Mao have been complicit to increasing degrees with the globalists. They must be itching to play their assigned role in trashing the USA militarily as much as possible, and as many other ways as possible. They don’t really care if they lose 800 million people in the process.
I hope and pray we have a large number of patriots left in key roles in the US military, to counter such an onslaught WHEN it comes.