• hector@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    The US military always claims it is outgunned to gin up more spending. In the cold war they sponsored campaigns to make everyone think the soviets were farther advanced than they were to ramp up funding, and it’s the same with China here.

    It’s never about the stated military objectives in the US, it’s about money. That is the only motivating factor, from afghanistan to iraq they didn’t care to adopt a winning strategy that would build a prosperous society that would be the base of a government, too mean spirited and greedy and short sighted, they only cared about milking the government for money.

    But year on the shores of china yeah they could fend off any invasion. The US navy could be vulnerable to massed missile volleys and the like, drones, to overwhelm missile defenses. Away from coastal batteries however China is outgunned. But luckily we should never find out because the destructive power of war has reached extinction level and that has as of yet prevented out bad leaders from starting a world war 3 directly with developed countries.