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Yesterday China proved itself to be the most capable conventional military force on earth. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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The world has known for awhile that things were shifting toward drone warfare, but China just showed off, Air recon/strike craft and VTOLs, Naval surface and subsurface drones, Ground light forces(robo dogs), and heavy forces(mini drone tanks).

They could effectively wage a war without losing a single soldier. Combined with their industrial capacity, and the defensive capability they showed off (Directed energy anti missile systems for example). Its now clear that China would defeat the US in a conventional war. Many of the things shown off in Chinas parade are technologies still in the prototyping phase in the US. The tech gap is closed. Or honestly in Chinas favor at this point.

They had for example drones integrated into their heavy tank forces. With launch platforms on top, and likely piloted from inside. So their tanks can now get a birds eye view of their surroundings at all times. This philosophy is likely an example of how theyll operate in general. With large armored ships, and vehicles acting as mobile control platforms for their vast drone forces. Its the modern equivalent of the air craft carrier. Drone warefare taken to its logical conclusion.

Our comrades in the PLA arent fucking around.

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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online -3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

China owns much of the US financially already. they'd only show force to hasten societal changes.

neither side would have anything to gain and too much loss to justify the conflict.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Okay but if they did fight China would win

[–] jorge@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Rationally, the US would never attack China, but the US is no friend of reason. Education is already bad, and is having budget cuts. Trump is dismantling the department of education. Intense religious fanaticism shows itself via creationism, recurrent moral panics (Satanic panic, abortion, LGBT phobia etc). Racism. Political extremism. Intense obscurantism and scientific denialism. The secretary of offense is covered in tattoos glorifying the Medieval crusades and wrote a book title "American Crusade" explaining the US is in a holy war against Islam and China.

I fear the US might hate China more than it loves itself. I hope it implodes before catastrophe.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Much of the foreign observers of Weimar Germany thought that with the massive amounts of debt, social unrest and defeat of the nation after World War One that rearmament and going down the same path would be impossible. They were wrong.

Instead of a struggling nation though, we have a vastly well-equipped and armed nationstate with billions of dollars to throw and a global hegemony on trade that is being threatened day by day as the population is inundated with xenophobia, religious fanaticism and fascism. Make no mistake that it will be the United States to act irrationally.

We have objective evidence of drones being effective against U.S doctrine as they were being used and tilting the balance with Iran-Israel-U.S. asymmetrical engagements