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billybcgn25 · 70-79, M
The USA and China will engage in a brief conflict in the Strait of Taiwan. China will suffer a considerable number of casualties, and see some of its assets sunk or shot down.
However, it will be to the USA. Either a Nimitz-class or Ford-class carrier, if not outright sunk, be permanently disabled, along with her task force. Our casualties will be sufficient to break the national will and morale. The administration, if it remains the present administration, will hastily abandon Taiwan, and the CCP will quickly and efficiently overrun Formosa, and the lucky ones will escape. The rest will suffer.
And the sea lanes in and around the South China Sea and western Pacific Ocean will be controlled by a dictatorial hegemony that will not be interested in freedom of movement.
The US will become a byword, a proverb. Our Department of State, however, will make commendable efforts in mostly radical Islamist states to promote trans rights.
The United States of America, the nation i once served, is no longer. It is a parody of the vision our Founding Fathers envisioned and created. We are a clown show in an insane asylum.
However, it will be to the USA. Either a Nimitz-class or Ford-class carrier, if not outright sunk, be permanently disabled, along with her task force. Our casualties will be sufficient to break the national will and morale. The administration, if it remains the present administration, will hastily abandon Taiwan, and the CCP will quickly and efficiently overrun Formosa, and the lucky ones will escape. The rest will suffer.
And the sea lanes in and around the South China Sea and western Pacific Ocean will be controlled by a dictatorial hegemony that will not be interested in freedom of movement.
The US will become a byword, a proverb. Our Department of State, however, will make commendable efforts in mostly radical Islamist states to promote trans rights.
The United States of America, the nation i once served, is no longer. It is a parody of the vision our Founding Fathers envisioned and created. We are a clown show in an insane asylum.
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
@billybcgn25 Interesting take.🫨
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@billybcgn25
We will suffer losses, but we WILL cripple the Chinese military and economy.
The American public had an isolationist streak once before. That ended on December 7, 1941.
Any pre-emptive strike by China will result in a massive military response. It will not be restricted to helping defend Taiwan.
The sea lanes to China will close quickly, far faster than they did to the Japanese.
[quote]As then Secretary of Defense James Mattis told the Chinese Defense Minister early during the Trump administration:
"No one country is going to dominate the Pacific. History is very 100 percent compelling on it. If you think you're going to take over the Pacific, you'll just be the fourth who thought so."
"Look if you want to fight, I'll fight. I'll fight anybody. I'll fight frigging Canada, okay? But I've had enough of fighting. I've written enough letters to mothers. I don't need to write any more. And you don't need to write them, either."
"I'll just tell you, the country I would most be willing to fight would be the one whose entire officer corps had never heard a shot fired at them. War is so different from training that a shock wave will go through them. I've got - probably 80 percent of my officers have been shot at in one form or another. But I'd prefer not to put them through another war."[/quote]
We will suffer losses, but we WILL cripple the Chinese military and economy.
The American public had an isolationist streak once before. That ended on December 7, 1941.
Any pre-emptive strike by China will result in a massive military response. It will not be restricted to helping defend Taiwan.
The sea lanes to China will close quickly, far faster than they did to the Japanese.
[quote]As then Secretary of Defense James Mattis told the Chinese Defense Minister early during the Trump administration:
"No one country is going to dominate the Pacific. History is very 100 percent compelling on it. If you think you're going to take over the Pacific, you'll just be the fourth who thought so."
"Look if you want to fight, I'll fight. I'll fight anybody. I'll fight frigging Canada, okay? But I've had enough of fighting. I've written enough letters to mothers. I don't need to write any more. And you don't need to write them, either."
"I'll just tell you, the country I would most be willing to fight would be the one whose entire officer corps had never heard a shot fired at them. War is so different from training that a shock wave will go through them. I've got - probably 80 percent of my officers have been shot at in one form or another. But I'd prefer not to put them through another war."[/quote]
billybcgn25 · 70-79, M
@beckyromero, I fervently hope you are correct. But I fear you are incorrect. But I do hope we survive.