We then tell you we cant swim like you seamen. we then laugh and have you take us to the land.Greets Army Platoon on a Boarding Boat.
Hey y'all see that over there. That is the land. Y'all head that way. Boarding Teams is Boat Guy Turf.
Russia is less of a threat then China is. Russia is willing to negotiate, and work with the US, and not claim things like a soldier brought Wu flu to their country.@Sailor.X, China becoming the US's rival won't be a thing for a few more decades, mostly due to the fact that their cash cow that is outsourcing is drying up and the fact that they're practically replacing their entire navy which is best described as 'green water' (i.e. coastal) for the most part.
The real problem is that Putin and associates want the USSR to come back and damn the costs to do so. For them, making everyone else agree that Russia must become the next Carthage as a best-case scenario for their defeat is acceptable for making Russia Great Again...
... without the current 'trade, or else' system in place, wars will become a thing again... and likely simply plunge the world into ceaseless war because that's how humans operate.
Korea has a growing nationalism for their own building and non China countries.The US as a favored trading partners days are gone and China killed it with Spying and the Wuhan Flu. We are not getting any containers from China at my warehouse. All of the suppliers have switched to Indonesia, India and Vietnam. That should tell you all you need to know.
It is a mater of When, not If.Here's the thing, historically the situation always has been what you can't get by trade, you have to get by conquest. By keeping China in the system, you don't have to fight them because they are part of the system and thus have a vested interest in keeping the system.
If China pulls out of the system, it will go out and start conquering places. That is a matter of if, not when.
Yes and that we're also having a problem that physics has a say in capability too. For example, our missiles aren't going to get any smaller because we can't get the reactions that propel our missiles and rockets to react faster, so to get more range/bigger payload/better sensors/mix of the above/all of the above, you have to make the missile bigger.
We're not Battletech where we can quite literally make the missile's frame basically C4-grade non-reactive explosive. We have to fit the warhead into the missile.
China is a paper tiger ready to fall apart the second it gets wetAgain we have Pacific Territories that are far away from the Mainland. American Samoa is an example. Our major military assets are very far away and would take several weeks to get into place. China is closer to them than the US Mainland is.
We only have so many ships and so many planes and we can't protect everywhere without ships on site stationed there. Having several wolf packs of Corvettes at these far flung islands will be cost effective in keeping them safe until a few Battlegroups can get on station.
Name one and I mean one war with a Modern Military that the PRC has won since it was formed. And no Tibet does not count. They have lost every single war they have started since the 1950s.