Good.
That would be so funny.
Rule 1. When you’re having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.
Also, a foreign threat tends to gather the citizens together. Our post-9/11 unity allowed them to create the Homeland Security Gestapo.
who says the enemy has to be foreign?
common fascist tactic.
Also a common liberal tactic.
Therefore we need to cut all non-essential government spending, for example everything that isn’t defense spending, and reallocate it to defense spending so we can overwhelm China’s defenses with wave attacks of billions of big beautiful boats that cost billions to build and only a million to sink
Lots of comments that “this is a false distraction to justify war on Panama”. War on Panama is about interdicting Chinese commerce with Brazil and other countries south of US. Including FDI in Panama to boost its cross ocean trade volume through a railway.
This is more of a classified leak exposing US weakness and impotence. This does compromise stupid people’s faith in US protections across the world, and their rulers corrupt submission to US under propaganda of US protection.
they already forced a 100% tariff on chinese imports in brazil
I’m only aware of 30% tariffs on Chinese steel in Brazil, which is same mistake any manufacturing country can make. This was under Biden. They are unpopular, and Brazil still does significant trade with China.
a) we are not a manufacturing country. we mostly sell raw materials to china
b) manufactured chinese imports are taxed 100%, not raw materials. think consumer goods. we have a few exceptions, like EVs
Someone got fired for unauthorized leak today. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-850238
The enemy is both weak and strong.
Lol sounds like he’s doing a great job in his role checks notes in charge of US defense.
This is both believable, and actually makes me feel safer about world security
Apparently the crucial moment for the US to attack was a few year ago, when they still had naval superiority. They missed their window luckily for us. Thanks to the PRC the US doesn’t get to use SE Asia and Europe as their cannon fodder.
anyway, 30 billion more for Israel
US generals are not idiots, they’re not going to sail their Carrier Strike Groups (CSGs) straight into a hail of Anti Ship Ballistic Missiles (ASBMs) equipped with either Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicles (MaRVs) or Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGVs) as warheads. The Chinese DF-17 HGV equipped ASBM, and the DF-21D MaRV equipped ASBM, have a range of around 1600km/1000mi. So these weapons will instead act as area denial weapons, with the CSGs remaining outside of their effective range during the majority of their operations. Aircraft will rely on mid air refueling and/or external drop tanks to have the required range to conduct missions from this far out. This cof course restricts their operations, but they can still carry out missions. This is also why there’s a huge focus on increasing the internal fuel capacity and range for the US Navy’s 6th generation strike fighter (F/A-XX), and why the F-35C has such a large internal fuel capacity.
We can see this in Yemen in the Red Sea (where ASBMs were used as weapons for the first time in history), where the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier spends the majority of time around Jeddah, around 700-800km from the Houthi/Ansarallah controlled parts of Yemen, and resupplies at Yanbu. This keeps them out of range of the Zolfogar Basir MaRV equipped ASBM (700km range) during normal operations, and keeps them out of range of Anti Ship Cruise Missiles like the Abu Mhadi (1000km range) when resupplying.
Area denial is still a great capability to have, but ASBMs aren’t magic wands that can just eliminate CSGs. They have their own limitations, hitting a moving target such as a ship with a ballistic missile, even one equipped with a HGV or MaRV, is quite complex, especially at longer ranges where you’d have to provide midcourse guidance updates and resulting trajectory changes to a ballistic missile in space.
US generals are not idiots
while i agree with everything else in your post, a lot of them absolutely are very, very stupid
Honestly, we shouldn’t assume they’ll always do stupid things, but they will do stupid things.
How they handled this training exercise rlly maeks me think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
edit: and then I scrolled down and saw people already discussing it lol
Please, Xi. Press the button. Almighty Allah please steel Xi’s heart to do what must be done
It’s not like China has to lift a finger, the US government is doing a fine job of destroying the country.
And so you’re going to reduce the military budget and start approaching diplomacy with an eye for mutual benefit and international cooperation, right?
a trillion into military spending.
