China doesn't want to hand a pretext to a dangerously trigger-happy power - all the more when patience alone delivers what it wants.
This actually neatly sums up pretty much all of Chinese history.
Unfortunate that so many Americans, and even politicians, still haven't grasped that.
Woah, there, buddy. All of Chinese history is a long-ass time. For a pretty big chunk of that (noncontiguously) they were the trigger-happy power.
Culver helpfully adds that China “deploys enough ships every year to replicate the entire French navy” - which, as a Frenchman, hurts a little, but at least we'll always have the cheese (I hope).
the chinese are buying so much cheese and wine from france that california is stuck supplying the rest of the world. lol
this whole article seems to ignore what happens if the us pre-emptively strikes to neutralize all/most of china's advantages.
this whole article seems to ignore what happens if the us pre-emptively strikes to neutralize all/most of china’s advantages.
How would that happen exactly? If the US cannot neutralize all of Iran's advantages by pre-emtively striking, how would they neutralize China?
the trump administration is incompetent, which allowed them to be fooled into a sense of overconfidence that led them to ignore the american spy community.
the administration that decides that we MUST do something or else we're totally cooked from now on will have the finest competency that epstein oligarchy can afford buy combined with the full embrace of the american spy communities' capabilities.
There is literally nothing the US can do about China. China has a bigger industrial base and a more advanced military, and on top of that, the US is dependent on China economically while the reverse is not the case. The US lacks material capacity to fight China. And there is zero reason to think that Chinese intelligence is any worse than what the US has. Everything we've seen over the past decades shows that China outplayed the US on every front.
i don't doubt that there's much that can be done against china's ascendancy on the world's stage; what i doubt is the epstein's oligarchy's ability to act rationally about it.
trump has exhibited several times that he drinks the kool-aid intended to fool the western working class into docility and it's only a matter of time until a competent president and administration that also drinks the kool-aid comes into power.
couple that w isreal's willingness to gamble away their source of power -- the petrodollar -- and willingly become a global pariah through genocide, ethnic cleansing and the samson option; fills me with a sense that they would rather destroy the world than let someone else control it.
and a kool-aid drinking administration will regretfully push the nuclear button out of some deranged "common sense" alignment with this kind of brainworm.
It's always possible the empire will do the unthinkable and start a nuclear holocaust. It is like a cornered rabid dog right now.