The US could handle both, but it would be difficult. With the participation of our allies it would not even be close because of the fact that our military technology is far superior to that of any of our enemies.
Yes I know, we all hear about all the Chinese wonder weapons like their hypersonic cruise missiles, their ballistic missile carrier killers etc...etc... ad nauseum. Believe very little about Chinese weapons and platforms that you read in news sources. Why you might ask? The CCP pays western journalists to provide positive coverage of their military tech and everything else. Yes, a majority of western news sources are paid to print CCP propaganda. Believing Chinese military tech is superior to US/Allied military tech, is a true fools errand.
The problem for them is the fact that they cannot make those weapons work, nor can they make their stealth technology work. How do we know this? Because we have intel systems that record the telemetry of their weapons tests and detailed analysis of that telemetry reveals all about the operational characteristics of any weapon, and theirs are not very good, at least by western standards. Also, it wouldn’t matter if all of China’s new Navy were sailing ships, the worthless fucks at the Pentagon would try to tell Congress and the American people that those sailing ships in such great numbers are an existential threat to the US, so pleast Congress, GIVE US MORE MONEY. Always follow the money. Publicly shared, by the Pentagon, intel about the capabilities of Russian/Chinese ships/planes/weapons/sensors etc...etc... are always exaggerated by the Pentagon so they can demand more money in the next budget. Did I tell you to follow the money.
But, back to my original thought on this; like usual, I would suspect that the US is going to get caught with our pants down; training wise and military leadership wise we will be unprepared because those two things are where our military is severely lacking, and China/Russia might win the first battle or two, but that will change quickly as we get rid of the present worthless military leadership and replace them with actual warriors and patriots and we accelerate our top level technologies getting out to the warfighters, and I’m not talking about the directed energy weapons, they’re already being installed in the fleet and on our armored vehicles and on our aircraft.
The Chinese and Russians are far behind in Combat Systems technology, super conductivity tech, which by the way is the reason we can now field operational laser weapons. Also the technology which would most quickly be exploited would be the UFO swarms we’ve all heard so much about lately. If anybody actually believes our military doesn’t know what these are or whom produced them, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Those things are advanced technology from DARPA. In fact the only country which could produce that kind of tech is the US. Occams Razor for those of you who doubt this.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Lots of good points, but mostly from a symmetric warfare perspective. As you no doubt are aware there others ways to attack us that could be very problematic for a country with the incredibly complex systems that we rely on. In other words we’re highly vulnerable in some very obvious ways.
Of course our biggest vulnerabilities right now is our demonstrably weak and feckless leadership which leads me to another point. I’m also skeptical about our reliance on our so-called “allies”, especially with respect to having to contend with simultaneous aggression by Russia and China. They may back us up when facing a single aggressor because of our military superiority, but not so sure they would when the odds aren’t as good. They are going to start equivocating when things get tough.
Its also not lost on the rest of the world that we have our own set of serious problems, internal divides and dysfunctionalities that are weakening us. Somewhat related is the debacle in Afghanistan which provided reasons to be skeptical of U.S. “commitments”.
So to wrap it up, I still see concurrent threats as highly problematic, along with asymmetric warfare and weak leadership. We can agree to disagree, but I think we both agree that our impaired military readiness and weak leadership pose very serious problems for this country.