This is a perfect example of the kind of passively fascist mystical thinking that we westerners are trained to engage in, where Great Man Theory meets Triumph of the Will. What's so special about about these guys? Practically speaking, they're a hit squad who killed an old man in his house, that's their military specialty. But because that old man was Osama Bin Laden, AKA the Voldemort of the early 2000s, killing him must have taken something special. After all, he just walked out of the Afghan mountains one day, waved his Great Man Wand, and made 9/11 happen. Such a powerful and mysterious sorcerer of history could only be taken down by an even more powerful group of heroes, like the heckin Avengers. If Seal Team whatever managed to break into his house and shoot him in the face, then they must be those heroes. They killed a powerful named character after all, what chance does a bunch of nameless Chinese missiles have?

Remember when all those ex-spec ops idiots volunteered for Ukraine and then either got got or fled home whining about "russian war doctrine" (being able to contest air superiority)
Laughed my ass off about that canadian sniper who died a few days after arriving. Yeah dude you shoot brown kids and think you're a badass, fuck you

1000% their "training" is on how to blow up critical infrastructure like TSMC's facilities, water production, and power generation in case the PRC does launch an operation on the island.

raiding a compound of a guy who has been on the run for decades while he’s asleep

With the ISI waving you through Pakistan security and you still manage to crash a helicopter

Kill one guy

vs

Fight a naton of a billion+ people

Basically the same thing!

the US/puppets couldn't keep the strait of bab al-mandab open against only ansarallah. What is the theory of victory for taking on China right off their coast?

I just saw a video where china is making a grenade launcher/sniper rifle combo. The US tried it before but decided it was too expensive. China said it wants to shoot grenades a kilometer in a light infiltry fire team.

I honestly have no idea what special forces are supposed to do during a real near-peer war in the 21st century.

I think that China could do absolutely untold damage to the American psyche and illusion of invulnerability if it simply instantly obliterated these clowns on Taiwan from hundreds of kilometers away with a cloud of drones dense enough to block out the sun.

IDK about this, I think this is quite unrealistic and almost mythical level thinking.

IMO drones work well in Ukraine because its a huge battlefield we haven't seen something like this since WW2. For some context the Ukraine war front is well over 1000km.

The current Korean DMZ is a "tiny" 250km. The Taiwan straight is also something like 300kmx180km or so.

This means that both sides have trouble providing consistent and effective air cover for their troops, despite the Russian natural advantage Ukrainian drones are still quite effective.

Turning to Taiwan this is the opposite, it would be a very concentrated battle and anti-drone systems should be more effective simply because its a smaller area.

China already achieved military superiority over the US and the conflict will be decided over naval superiority by destroying or even damaging the US carrier fleet. In fact I do like the theory sinking a US carrier would be far worse than 9/11 for the average population and internal US politics, although perhaps that would mean accepting a WW3.

Skip forward two months:

"Hey guys, we successfully repelled the mainland Chinese invasion of occupied Formosa!!

What? No, you can't see any evidence of this. We sunk all of their ships in the Taiwan Strait so you'll just have to take our word for it that we actually achieved what we said we did and trust that this isn't another example of our unit pulling another political theatre manoeuvre."

😎😎

Gotta justify those "defense" dollars somehow.

Basically just the rock that keeps away tigers at this point.