this is the funniest thing i’ve read in ages
Gallagher said the Pentagon should offer prime missile contractors such as Lockheed Martin a slew of new multi-year contracts.
The actual point of the article.
Our relentless agression towards china may careen us into a war with them, what should we do?
It’s just grown men and women doing power level forum posts and playing war nerd D&D then pissing their pants about how they wouldn’t win a slam dunk victory over our biggest economic rival, seeing as we hollowed out our entire industrial base in the pursuit of ever-greater profit margins
The whole article hinged on the idea of China starting a war and America will need a deterrent – in Taiwan. China will somehow start a war with America inside it’s own borders.
Earlier this year, CIA Director Bill Burns said the United States believes that Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027. This was so, Burns said, despite the likelihood that Xi was “surprised and unsettled” by the “very poor performance” of the Russian military in Ukraine.
:michael-laugh:
2027 is a date that never appears in PRC sources, only white ones. america would like a war before 2025-2027 because after that the PLA advantage would be completely overwhelming
The classic Pentagon-China gambit: never bother translating anything the Chinese write or say and instead just make up whatever fits today’s narrative about China.
