[QUOTE=Chilean;31626883][Img]http://gyazo.com/f9fb9d0be06a688a033d79472535798e.png[/Img]
military budgets
I think we'd do all right.[/QUOTE]
Ahhhh. The Cold War taught us how to bankrupt our enemy by convincing it to overinflate its military budget and production. Now that we've learned that lesson, the United States seems to be vigorously applying the tactic to themselves.
[QUOTE=ART1E117;31625036]Fuck Aamerica,.[/QUOTE]
Isn't your internet supposed to be censored?
[QUOTE=s0beit;31627397]No, it didn't.
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Erm, yes it did. It provided many people with jobs and boosted product sales as they where sold to other countries that where at war
I hope China realizes if they do instigate a war with us and possibly invade, that every individual American would fight back in some way, shape, or form. It'd be equivalent to the proposed US invasion of Japan during WWII, they could get here but would have to fight the entire populace.
I also say this living in CA about 200 some odd miles from L.A. and 50 miles away from the largest Marine Corps Base in the world.
LOL! funny story man
..oh wait, people actually think this is serious?
Man, we all know china is evil and we need to put them to their place. Ofcourse this is 100 percent genuine.
“If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks,”
God, that sounds like something someone angrily mutters as they walk away after losing an argument.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;31629537]Erm, yes it did. It provided many people with jobs and boosted product sales as they where sold to other countries that where at war[/QUOTE]
all while seriously harming the economy of countries that actually had conflict within their borders
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not to mention the massive loss of human life
[QUOTE=RandomVariable;31625714]Shanghai Cooperation Organization:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Countries-SCO.png[/img][/QUOTE]
This map just made me realize that Mongolia is always out of everything. Like, I don't recall ever seeing a single news article about them.
It took me checking Wikipedia to make sure this country still exists at all.
[QUOTE=STeel;31634898]This map just made me realize that Mongolia is always out of everything. Like, I don't recall ever seeing a single news article about them.
It took me checking Wikipedia to make sure this country still exists at all.[/QUOTE]
Mongolia likes to keep to itself.
[QUOTE=STeel;31634898]This map just made me realize that Mongolia is always out of everything. Like, I don't recall ever seeing a single news article about them.
It took me checking Wikipedia to make sure this country still exists at all.[/QUOTE]
They're too busy being ecstatic about their democracy.
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[QUOTE=Tac Error;31629061]Ahhhh. The Cold War taught us how to bankrupt our enemy by convincing it to overinflate its military budget and production. Now that we've learned that lesson, the United States seems to be vigorously applying the tactic to themselves.[/QUOTE]
At least the Soviet Union had tangible enemies.
I'm not worried about a war with China, I'm worried about a war with North Korea. That can happen any day of the week. They've wanted to invade South Korea for years (not to mention they're our ally so if they're invaded it's war), and they're gonna do it soon. Fuck China, we're going to war with North Korea.
I doubt the US would do anything but talk, they've got soldiers all over the world and are in serious economic shit. If they kept on spending money on military invasions I think they're gonna lose any last hopes for legitimacy and watch their economy sink further.
[QUOTE=RandomVariable;31625037]TV source in case if you're too lazy to read:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvmErHnTWu8[/media][/QUOTE]
Ahahah, China is so fucking Paranoid.
We can't win this one.
IntelHub? You're kidding, right?
[QUOTE=Scar;31625606]If this starts, I hope my country will get lodsamone by selling weapons to both sides. Like in Fallout :buddy:
But it won't start.[/QUOTE]
I'm going back to Germany if that happens :v:
I love America.
"global internet war"
Dude, it's like tron.
[quote]“If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks,” an unnamed military official told the Journal.[/quote]
I wish we had some more reasonable and mature people in charge of our military.
If this shit actually starts, my sister's husband is stationed in Okinawa so I just hope his ship gets out in time.
well, i'm heading to vault 89 here in ky, see yall in 2038.
[QUOTE=Trooper0315;31643134]If this shit actually starts, my sister's husband is stationed in Okinawa so I just hope his ship gets out in time.[/QUOTE]
Honestly, the safest service for a war with China would probably be in the Navy, if you have the right position. China has ridiculously limited air-to-air capabilities when it comes to arming and refueling, which means the number of birds they can put in the air is nothing compared to the assets we have in both South Korea, Japan, and other surrounding areas, let alone the Pacific Fleet.
Not to mention China's navy is next to non-existent. Mostly a surface fleet of small cruisers and patrol boats.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;31643301]Honestly, the safest service for a war with China would probably be in the Navy, if you have the right position. China has ridiculously limited air-to-air capabilities when it comes to arming and refueling, which means the number of birds they can put in the air is nothing compared to the assets we have in both South Korea, Japan, and other surrounding areas, let alone the Pacific Fleet.
Not to mention China's navy is next to non-existent. Mostly a surface fleet of small cruisers and patrol boats.[/QUOTE]
This would be some good information for you:
[url]http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/files/2008_RAND_Pacific_View_Air_Combat_Briefing.pdf[/url]
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Unless the PLAAF is planning to hit targets on the other side of the earth, the lack of a significant aerial refueling capability is not a disadvantage.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;31642862]We can't win this one.[/QUOTE]
If China vs USA, USA would rip China a new asshole. Not to mention the economic meltdown China would have, their entire country would be destroyed.
[QUOTE=TheCloak;31643438]If China vs USA, USA would rip China a new asshole. Not to mention the economic meltdown China would have, their entire country would be destroyed.[/QUOTE]
You fail to mention that:
- the United States and the rest of the world would too [url=http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2011-07/chinese-missiles-and-walmart-factor]have an economic meltdown if a Sino-American War happened[/url]
- a war with the United States is seen by the PRC leadership as frankly, quite ludicrous
The United States military got good at conducting major conventional operations back in 1991, but 20 years later and 10 years of counterinsurgency have dissipated that focus.
I just hope Europe stays the fuck out of this.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;31629537]Erm, yes it did. It provided many people with jobs and boosted product sales as they where sold to other countries that where at war[/QUOTE]
Please explain how blowing up tanks made of steel, shooting bullets made of lead, killing people, blowing up buildings is good for the world economy. What you need to do is envision war expenditures as general resources. How many houses does it cost to build a tank? How many iPads did it take to build the nuclear bomb and for that matter, how many skyscrapers were destroyed in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Tell me, why didn't we just maintain war spending after World War 2, since it was so good for the economy? Tell me also, why after the war despite all predictions to the contrary by economists who advanced the opinion that World War 2 ended the depression, we had the most robust period of growth in the history of the United States after the war spending ended.
Just increasing "employment" and "production" is meaningless if they're creating the wrong things, they're even worse than meaningless if they're actively destroying resources. I suggest you discover the 'broken window fallacy' and alternate views of the events that transpired during the Great Depression and World War 2 before regurgitating the falsehoods you picked up from god knows where.
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