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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My fave part is the section of the bill that exempts it from FOIA requests...democracy...

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

The US would have no chance. Russia alone can outproduce all of the imperial west in artillery shells by multiples. China has immense industrial capacity and a naval shipbuilding capacity that far exceeds anywhere else in the world. Both countries have access to fleet-ruining hypersonic missiles.

If China decides to reassert its sovereignty over Taiwan, the choice will be let China do it and do business with them as normal or blow up the entire world economy for years if not decades. The loss of shareholder value will be so massive in the latter that I'd have to assume the US would just let it happen.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

Agreed. NATO can't even beat Russia alone, and China, when stirred, will make Russia look like a minor power.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

China has immense industrial capacity and a naval shipbuilding capacity that far exceeds anywhere else in the world.

Except weirdly enough, South Korea.

the choice will be let China do it and do business with them as normal or blow up the entire world economy for years if not decades.

This is dangerous thinking. We shouldn't underestimate the willingness of the US to go to war.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The loss of shareholder value will be so massive in the latter that I’d have to assume the US would just let it happen.

In my view because of this a proper WW3 won't happen soon, no one with enough money to pull the strings wants to risk it. Plenty of money for more proxy wars and economic espionage though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Time is running out for the US to even lie about its "dominance" though. Soon enough the lies won't even work and then it's time for war.