Posted on 01/25/2023 7:59:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Hence, the need for the Ukraine war, to deplete the West before China mounts its offense.
The question is when does China run out?
I’m not familiar with Nation & State.
Are they pretty reputable?
If they don’t attack us now, they never will.
RE: Are they pretty reputable?
I don’t know much about them. They publish a lot of the articles by Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge.
This particular article is sourced to Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) with a link provided to the study so I would say that at least on this report, they are doing regular journalism.
China has an industrial base, that is the whole. They CAN produce weapons, lots of weapons.
You can’t talk about our depleted industrial base and not also talk about real import tariffs. Really high tariffs.
It appears to be a front/rebranding of ZeroHedge - which is rather sketchy. It is ostensibly a Conservative source - but gets a lot strangely wrong (originally mostly financial market analysis + politics).
Yes - the US is in a rather compromised position when it comes to some categories of munitions. But our empty Strategic Petroleum Reserves is likely an even bigger security threat overall...
But anything connected to ZeroHedge should always be viewed with a magnifying glass, the BS detector turned on, and grain of salt.
We’ll just order up another round from China... wait...
China’s payment to Biden are paying off.
Thomas J. Pritzker was named chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees in 2015, succeeding former U.S. senator Sam Nunn (D-GA). Founded in 1962, CSIS is led by John J. Hamre, who has served as president and chief executive officer since 2000. …This is J.B. Pritzker’s first cousin, JFTR. (I don’t think I have ever stayed at a Hyatt hotel.)
155mm artillery ammo is not relevant to a China war.
The big deal items are missiles - ALCMs, Tomahawks, JASSM, Harpoon, NSM, Standard SAM, JSOW, AMRAAM, etc.
Thanks for your reply and reasoning.
I’m not very comfortable about this topic right now, but
I honestly don’t know how to judge it overall.
While we may be low on some stuff, I’m suspect we have
redundancy in other areas.
Tyler Durden is a nom de plume of several people published in Zero Hedge.
Is this Tyler guy a realm person? “Allahpundit” has disappeared as well. Just wondering. Mr. Durden, let us know....
>> [China] CAN produce weapons, lots of weapons.
Yep.
China 2023 is America 1941 — industrial might, easily converted to war materiel production.
Is Chinese war materiel inferior to our best? Perhaps, but “Quantity has a quality all its own.” Think Iranian drone swarms (not a problem for China to replicate; they probably already have). Think hypersonic shore-to-ship missiles, individually unreliable but launched in VAST quantities that render the mighty US Navy dead in the water.
Meanwhile, all WE produce are queer and tranny and feminist Tik-Tok influencers, and “entertainment”. We’re thirty trillion dollars in debt, much of it funding stupid sh!t like “green energy” (while China is using reliable coal). Our military is woke to the max but otherwise flabby and inferior. Our industrial prowess is gone.
This is NOT!!! a good time to squander in Ukraine what weapons systems we have in our inventory!
RE: Is this Tyler guy a realm person?
For me, the more important question is — Is this article and the source it references accurate. Tyler Durden is obviously a Pseudonym.
“Think hypersonic shore-to-ship missiles, individually unreliable but launched in VAST quantities that render the mighty US Navy dead in the water”.
That’s an excellent point. There is no way ships could last for very long under that kind of assault.
The US military has a good first punch but cannot go the full 15 rounds. No chance.
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