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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. America treats the navy seals like they are all Master Chief, when in reality they are just guys who can carry a log and swim for a long time or some shit. Maybe that matters when you’re like… raiding a compound of a guy who has been on the run for decades while he’s asleep with Neon Genesis Evangelion playing on the TV, but genuinely what are these guys going to do to actually fight back against China? China will never even let them see a single PLA soldier lmao.

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    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

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      My fav was a western Nazi who tried to stop a couple of Ukrainian conscripts from retreating so they just shot him and kept going.

      Once again the Russian blocking units are entirely projection.

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        Blocking units were real, but didn’t shoot people. They were partially a mobile reserve of veterans to shore up the front line if it was weakened, partially for grabbing lost or deserting troops and pointing them to collection areas that would figure out who they were and get them back to their unit, and partially guarding important stuff from any nazies that managed to get through the lines to do recon or sabotage.

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          Yeah westerners will twist absolutely anything the USSR did. They were effectively just reserve units to plug holes, and somehow that turned into machine guns mowing down their own Asiatic hordes.

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        Then going home to go on a podcast to talk about how “their expertise better suits the war in an advisory position”

        Reddit brigade was peak comedy

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          Really a perfect microcosm for the global South resisting imperialism today. The west goes about committing man made horrors beyond our comprehension, but as soon as foreign powers do anything besides role over and die quickly (Libya, Iraq, Yugoslavia) or, at the very least, remain in a state of perpetual uneven warfare with little meaningful retaliation, they shit and piss themselves. The west doesn’t even know what to do about peer warfare in Ukraine other than cry about it and mindlessly escalate, and they’re utterly useless in responding to Ansar Allah, Hezbollah, and Iran (when they DO actually act). The west can only bully and lash out at those who are unarmed and weak, but as soon as one of their victims displays true intent and capability of self-defense they cry and play victim. Pathetic.

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            Absolutely. As soon as the bully gets outnumbered, or stood up against in any way, the tail goes between the legs.

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        Throwback to the dumbass lemmitor who insisted Ukraine had superior training, it just “wasn’t suited to fighting against the russian military doctrine”. The logic was completely circular.
        That was my top voted post on my previous account, early federation was a blast.

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          wojak-nooo “You don’t understand! My training in computer science is superior to your training in weightlifting!”

          ppb-gigachad “Maybe, but this is a weightlifting competition.”

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    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

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      then come home and spin a lie about how he was “brandishing an AK at the top of the stairs” because americans’ only moral lens for violence is through hollywood where the good guys spare the lives of the bad guys, only for the bad guys to suddenly grab a gun & have to be killed in immediate self-defense

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      Even after killing the guy you still managed to fuck it up by being so undisciplined that you multilate the body of the HVT beyond recognition, thus ruining the entire point of the mission and forcing the body to be quietly dumped into the ocean before it becomes an international embarrassment.

      Was suppose to be a victory lap for imperialism but they got too mad and lost their shit mid way through. Seal team six is on the same level as conservative comedians.

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    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.

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      I assure you, person who lives here, that I am here to help you.

      Distant explosion followed by power outage

      This is for your own good.

      Destroys economy trying to create a forever war

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    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?

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    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.

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      I want that thing so badly.

      Nato and wpact armies handled the distribution of heavy weapons differently. Idk how former wpact countries that aren’t nato do things but back in the day the soviets tended to have weapons attached to smaller units while nato weapon teams were at platoon level. I have absolutely zero idea how the pla is structured.

      The grenade sniper rifle is cool bc you could accurately fuck up ground robots, lightly armored and unarmored vehicles, expensive stuff, and other targets with accurate fire from much further than an infantry grenade launcher but without the weight and expense of a missile or mortar system. There are weapons like 12.7mm, 14.5mm, and 20mm rifles in the same space but they’re not widely used. If the qlu-11s airburst capabilitiy actually works it’d have somewhat more utility than a conventional rifle.

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        Sounds like it chambers for a Chinese 35mm greande round and there are also 40x53mm versions. Maybe for export? I’ll vote for whichever fascist lifts the norinco import ban!

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        As I understand this is is light artillery. Placing a grenade round into a medium target or though an open window. So more precise than artillery and more splody than anti-material

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    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.

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      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.

      Obligatory reminder that USA already took their obsolete but very prestigious ships and put it in obvious provocation situation to start a war. Twice.

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      IIRC, China has been doing a lot of stuff with low-flying drones over the water. Very hard to see on radar, reported as "UFO"s in the South China Sea.

      A dense cloud of drones is silly though that’s not the point of drones

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      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.

      I don’t know how an attack on Taiwan by America would even work without dragging the whole region into the conflict. America’s industrial “base” is several thousand miles away from the battlefield. They’d have to be operating from friendly neighboring countries to even have a chance of keeping up a fight, much less winning it.

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        The symbolic victory against Imperialist aggressors combined with the fact that the US might have spent the last 30 years laying off their shipbuilding capabilities and expertise is a day to look forward to.

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    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."

    😎😎

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      The Navy Seal training they are undergoing is on how to move the goalposts when the PRC reunifies with Taiwan.

      ”We achieved our strategic objective of ensuring a smooth transition while protecting the citizens of Taiwan”

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      Americans: The Navy Seals alone could easily defeat the entire PLA.

      America to Americans: Attention, all gamers Taiwan supporters. Taiwan is in grave danger, and it needs your help to defend the Taiwanese people and stop the evil CCP from eating all of our chips! But to do this, Taiwan needs some American expertise on losing wars to communists and a couple of our Übermensch Navy Seals. To help Taiwan, all we need is your credit card number, the three numbers on the back, and the expiration month and year. BUT– you’ve gotta be quick, so that Taiwan can secure American interests its borders and get the epic victory royale over Xi Jinping (Winnie the Pooh) and his gang of commies!

      Americans: Sir, yes sir! 💳

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    while he’s asleep with Neon Genesis Evangelion playing on the TV

    🎵 Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dowwwwwwn~ 🎵
    🎵 [The US keeps] letting me down, letting me down, letting me down~ 🎵