Very worrying what kind of false flag they’ll instigate. Taiwan seems obvious, pushing them to declare independence but that might not be enough without some further provocation. They’ll definitely have plenty of canon fodder as the people in the west are plenty propagandized and would at least for the first 12 months I think willingly throw themselves into any kind of meat grinder against China.
I think in some ways all of this might be trying to engineer a situation of throwing all the henchmen so to speak at the good guys while hanging back and saying you’ll cover them, seeing if you can bloody them while having little interest in joining the fight unless it starts going very well without you. And at the very least if they push their vassals to attack China and those vassals lose, they’ll have expended a lot of weaponry that the US can then force them to buy more.
My biggest fear is the US somehow engineers a false flag and convinces India to attack China and then joins in or just sits back and watches. Since the Russian thing failed they couldn’t stage on Russian borders anyways and most of the smaller countries would be loathe to let them do it.
Oh and one more thing. If they US ever does manage any kind of effective missile defense system whether hypersonic glide-kill vehicles or space lasers that would be capable of intercepting 95% of China’s arsenal (with or without presuming an effective sneak first strike that takes out some of it) they are immediately going to nuke China’s military and attack so that’s something to keep in mind though it seems they’re still quite a ways off.
From what I’ve read, barring science-fiction level tech, countering China’s missiles is effectively impossible. And China’s defense systems I think are better or on the verge of being better than the U.S.
Very worrying what kind of false flag they’ll instigate. Taiwan seems obvious, pushing them to declare independence but that might not be enough without some further provocation. They’ll definitely have plenty of canon fodder as the people in the west are plenty propagandized and would at least for the first 12 months I think willingly throw themselves into any kind of meat grinder against China.
I think in some ways all of this might be trying to engineer a situation of throwing all the henchmen so to speak at the good guys while hanging back and saying you’ll cover them, seeing if you can bloody them while having little interest in joining the fight unless it starts going very well without you. And at the very least if they push their vassals to attack China and those vassals lose, they’ll have expended a lot of weaponry that the US can then force them to buy more.
My biggest fear is the US somehow engineers a false flag and convinces India to attack China and then joins in or just sits back and watches. Since the Russian thing failed they couldn’t stage on Russian borders anyways and most of the smaller countries would be loathe to let them do it.
Oh and one more thing. If they US ever does manage any kind of effective missile defense system whether hypersonic glide-kill vehicles or space lasers that would be capable of intercepting 95% of China’s arsenal (with or without presuming an effective sneak first strike that takes out some of it) they are immediately going to nuke China’s military and attack so that’s something to keep in mind though it seems they’re still quite a ways off.
From what I’ve read, barring science-fiction level tech, countering China’s missiles is effectively impossible. And China’s defense systems I think are better or on the verge of being better than the U.S.