Posted on 02/03/2023 4:41:43 AM PST by MtnClimber
General Mike Minihan, a four-star Air Force General who leads the Air Mobility Command, made major shockwaves the other day, stating that he believes our country will be at war with China by 2025. His reasoning:
-Chinese President Xi [Jinping] secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022
-Taiwan's presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a baseless reason to invade Taiwan
-U.S. presidential elections will offer Xi a distracted America
-The U.S. has long walked a fine line with its ambiguous "One China" policy, which acknowledges China's claims to sovereignty over Taiwan without accepting them
Additional reasons for concern by 2025:
-Xi has promised his military and civil leaders the necessity of solving the "Taiwan Problem." Should he be stymied, his political future is at risk.
-China does not manufacture the latest generation of computer chips; they need those for their war machines, aerospace industry, and other high-technology demands. Taiwan controls about ½ of the world's supply of those chips. Taking Taiwan would be a 'twofer' for China to gain the necessary chips for themselves and to deny the West the chips they must have.
-The U.S. is telegraphing to the world that we are short some munitions, especially the high-tech kind we would need to stop China from successfully invading Taiwan. By helping Ukraine now, we have discovered significant gaps in our weaponry.
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During a balls-to-the-wall fight, combatants must go flat-out 24x7 without concern over financial constraints. The U.S. has always been behind the curve at the start of hostilities in major wars. Historically we had too few trained personnel and insufficient weapons and munitions. From the Civil War through WWI and II, war clouds were visible just over the horizon,
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Xi’s technical people can put these to the task:
https://www.qualcomm.com/products
We sorry we ‘ruin’ a couple hundred of your fancy chips.
We pay!
OK?
Taiwan will VOTE to join China—no lives lost. A coup and the left wing party will take over and make a deal with Xi. No need for war-just a few billion in the right hands and its all done-—BUT I feel war is coming and it will not be “The West” (USA UK and EU) vs. Not One state (like Russia) but a cabal of nations in an axis of evil—I predict: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, South Africa, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela. (Maybe Brazil, Serbia, Laos, Egypt, and Yemen.) One we could beat, two maybe, all not so sure.
We won’t shoot down a Chinese surveillance balloon floating over our own country. We aren’t going to war with China over Taiwan.
Before the fall of the USSR, didn't their soviet comrades provide China with a lot of tech?
Thinking out loud here, given Russia's never really been technically advanced on damn' near anything other than perhaps nukes and now hypersonic missiles, I don't think there's anything Russia could've shared with China that's worth a damn'.
I like to study military/war history. I guess the last really great piece of military tech Russia came up with was the T-34. I think our M-1 Abrams destroyed many Iraqi Russian T-55s in the desert wars. Correct me if I am wrong.
The other was in a tank picking off Iraqi Republican Guard tanks easier than playing a video game. According to him, it got so bad that our guys were told to stop taking out the Iraqi tanks. We had to leave some of the Iraqi Republican Guard in-tact to keep Iran at bay once we left.
That's what he (his name is Alan) said.
If we were able to pick those tanks off that easy back then, imagine what we can do to Russia now? I dunno, hope it never comes to that.
Russia started Ukraine.
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