We are NOT prepared. We have lost our manufacturing ability. While we could out compete them early, we are not able to fight a sustained conflict without manufacturing. Further, we as a people have an entire political group that sides with the Communists, and would undermine any type of response. We call them Democrats....but Communist enablers is essentially the truth at this point.
Instead of war, we should be moving manufacturing BACK to the United States. This is both safer, more environmentally friendly for the world, and better for both populations. Further, we need to re-establish rule of law in the United States (prosecution of treasonous and seditious members of our government). Strict voting laws, without voter fraud, is also essential to maintain our nation as we know it. These three events would put us in a position to succeed, and avoid bloodshed with China, IMHO.
It would be a simultaneous war with the ChiComs and Blue States ...
Agreed,
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This is the only time I’ve ever seen Trump restrain himself. He knows he didn’t have enough time to prepare us for this eventuality. I’m sure he is doing his best with workarounds the critical supply chains the Chicoms still control. With two more years, Trump could have just rattled his economic sword to cow the Chinese, not yet.
Agreed, but we wouldn’t have to fight the entire nation of China, only their wretched Communist regime. A large segment of their population would likely be on our side so long as we didn’t attack the general population. Regardless of what China does, one fact is inescapable: That regime must now go. They are a threat to the entire world.
Also, China’s military is not nearly as strong as they pretend to be. Their development is on a worrying trajectory, but they’re not even close to being on par with ours yet. Also keep in mind that in a conflict they would likely be facing not only us but Japan, maybe South Korea (hard to tell at times with their socialist tendencies), Australia, and perhaps India. Who knows what feckless Europe would do, but we would almost certainly have at least Britain with us
I don’t see much of anyone likely to join the Chinese side (unless you want to count North Korea, for whatever that’s worth). However, there’s one huge wildcard, and that’s Russia. Hard to know if their “alliance” with China is real or just for show, but they would change everything if they supported China, at least if it went “non-conventional.”
Anyway, I’ve been seeing this scenario coming since the whole virus fiasco started. I can’t see some type of conflict with China being avoidable. Either we kick the can down the road again, and China at some point again does something that devastates the world economy (a certainty, and one that we cannot tolerate happening a second time), or we act soon to bring down this regime. There are no alternatives. Any notion by the business types, trying desperately to save their financial deals with the devil, that we can just go back to playing nice with China is absurd. I hope the “business community” is starting to see the real price of “free trade.” That phrase may yet lead to World War III. True free trade among friendly nations can be a great thing, but unbalanced trade with a hostile nation driven by evil ideology is idiotic and can create a monster that drags the entire world into conflict.
Our business people and our politicians have created quite the monster in China. Now we must kill it.