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Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'
(www.reuters.com)
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I meant we could occupy them like we occupied Iraq. We would win the military confrontation. The occupation would break us.
We could do it once, maybe twice or three times if the countries are small and weak, but it would break us. The rest of the world would adjust. We would all be poorer but the US would be fucked. Trump doesn't understand that we built a military too expensive to actually use. It made sense if we wanted to avoid conflict, and casualties, while still being top dog and getting our way, but actually going in and occupying territory is medieval thinking.
No, we would not win an invasion of Taiwan.
Realistically, no one would, it would probably basically result in either a nuclear exchange or some kind of mass infrastructure denial kind of attack, around many parts of the world.
But uh, we only have usually about 3 carrier groups in/around China/Taiwan at any given time.
And... our wargame scenarios only look maybe/probably winnable for fending off a Chinese invasion of Taiwan... if we have all of regional our allies to rely on.
If they are all against us, we lose badly.
China has more missiles and aircraft than we can hope to overcome without allies.
If... we were going to... do, what, a marine / paratrooper invasion... of Taiwan...
Where in the fuck would we stage that?
Okinawa?
You can't move the numbers of troops needed to do an invasion of Taiwan without a lot of people noticing... and we'd immediately become enemies of all the places we could launch the assault from, if we somehow did manage to move a few hundred thousand infantry without being noticed.
Like, it took us around a year to move everything over the countries neighboring Kuwait and Iraq, back in the Gulf War.
You can't just steam a marine invasion flotilla from Hawaii to Taiwan.
Everyone has satellites. They'd see it. When we got near a staging port, world news would be going insane with 'wtf is the US doing with this armada?'
This is why I said its like the dumbest possible thing we could do.
We are pretty much guaranteed to lose.
We could pull off something like that against smaller Central or smaller South American countries... not Taiwan.
That's true, Taiwan is armed to the teeth and our regional partners would not be partners if we actually went psychotic and tried to invade. Our supply lines are way longer than China and all the logistics in the world won't help if we don't have bases to operate from.