I was listening to this week's Viva Fri and Barnes livestream in the background, it was interesting Barnes take on China given the balloon thing.
He was arguing that China militarily is set up more defensively while America is all about offense. There are some in American military command pushing for not just a conflict with China but all full on invasion and land war with China and the balloon was embarrassing for their plans as it indicated China DID have ways to target the US offensively where America is very weak in terms of infrastructure.
It's an interesting perspective that I'd partly agree with because we all know how war hawkish America has been for a century now, but thanks to Hong Kong and border skirmishes between China and India that doesn't mean China is innocent in this so two things can be the true at the sane time
China has over a billion people, they can afford to lose 300 million in civilian casualties. We can't. War with China (or Russia, or any other nuclear power) is fucking suicide.
I was listening to this week's Viva Fri and Barnes livestream in the background, it was interesting Barnes take on China given the balloon thing.
He was arguing that China militarily is set up more defensively while America is all about offense. There are some in American military command pushing for not just a conflict with China but all full on invasion and land war with China and the balloon was embarrassing for their plans as it indicated China DID have ways to target the US offensively where America is very weak in terms of infrastructure.
It's an interesting perspective that I'd partly agree with because we all know how war hawkish America has been for a century now, but thanks to Hong Kong and border skirmishes between China and India that doesn't mean China is innocent in this so two things can be the true at the sane time
China has over a billion people, they can afford to lose 300 million in civilian casualties. We can't. War with China (or Russia, or any other nuclear power) is fucking suicide.