If they have the Chinese backing them, this could be WWIII.
We would be hard pressed to fight the Chinese.
They’re smart if this is their plan. They know we are war weary, we are spread thin across the globe, and we have little confidence due to 70 years of military stalemates.
And let’s just be completely honest: they know good and damn well that Obama will roll over like a pliant dog. The democrats are probably drooling over this. It’s a precursor to America handing over the keys and fading into obscurity by a “controlled descent” albeit very steep.
The Chinese and Russians back them. All these people who think that China, for example, is just a self-interested capitalist country that just wants to make money are deluded. They’re a communist state and have never given up on taking us out. The idea of making temporary Capitalist reforms is a well-known one in communist ideology, the idea being to get them up to snuff to face us. Such was Lenin’s New Economic Policy, wherein he even established false-front organizations who spread rumors that the communists were reforming into capitalists. Of course, it was all a lie.
The communists are long-term planners, and have a very different mentality than their western counterparts, who are merely their pawns.
We lost almost 100,000 KIA in WWIII. It wasn’t cold.