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2022-11-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'The big one is coming': US military nuclear commander warns America is falling behind China, is 'going to get tested in ways that we haven't been tested in a long time' - and that Ukraine is 'just the warmup'

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-05 10:40|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 It seems to me that if we can just hold the line another two decades or so, China will no longer be able to be a serious military threat. They’ll still have infectious micro-organisms and an appetite for mischief, but they’ll no longer be a manufacturing center able to hold world trade hostage, and their excess military age males will have aged beyond interest in fighting.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-05 15:10|| 2022-11-05 15:10|| Front Page Top

#2 As I crudely understand it, tw, the '20's are the decade in which poor shipbuilding decisions by the Navy come home to roost. And that's not a problem we can quickly correct. Extensive professional discussion of the issue here. But the Chinese have their own set of problems.

Posted by Matt 2022-11-05 16:05|| 2022-11-05 16:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Right now they're giving us a headache by planting their stupid ugly recon vessel yuangwan class no. 6 in the Indian Ocean. The fags in New Delhi have to posture now and act all incensed and shoo them away or wait it out.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-05 16:11|| 2022-11-05 16:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Dron, what's going on at the LAC? Rock throwing or something more?

Posted by Matt 2022-11-05 16:19|| 2022-11-05 16:19|| Front Page Top

#5 There are two main regions in East Ladakh, Matt, that India-China were deadlocked in till last month. With major military muscle raring to go and men shouting curses across no-man's-land. Then it was resolved with commander level talks and both gave each other a face saving pull back. Diplomatic talks are on. We are both watching each other. I wish I could say more. There are interests however, that would have India and China keep at each other's throat.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-05 16:31|| 2022-11-05 16:31|| Front Page Top

#6 For obvious reasons, these days China is trying to win friends not make enemies. And the stupid sanctions thing, that has galvanised and put the whole de-dollarization thing into high gear. So they know they can't afford to fight someone they want to able to keep trading with.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-05 16:37|| 2022-11-05 16:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Goddam: I just had a look at the Yuangwan Class Number Six! That is truly one crazy, ugly as hell ship. And its purpose in theory is to guide ICBM's down on you? Yikes. It's mere presence is a provocation.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-11-05 16:40|| 2022-11-05 16:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks, Dron. Not a heck of a lot of news coverage that I can find.

Posted by Matt 2022-11-05 17:05|| 2022-11-05 17:05|| Front Page Top

#9 I think they're saying it's monitoring some Chinese satellite launches, Secret Master. We know two were planned for November. The number 5 is also in Srilankan port. However we are conducting our own missile tests at the moment and have had to reschedule.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-05 17:29|| 2022-11-05 17:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Yuangwan Class ships are needed to guide a ballistic missile over the Pacific. The Chinese do now have any radar sites all over the world like the west does so they depend on those. You know they are about to launch east when they deploy.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-05 20:27|| 2022-11-05 20:27|| Front Page Top

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