https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/09/america-weapons-china-00100373
If things get exciting with the PRC, it is not going to be pretty for us. Says the man who is seven miles downwind of the Jim Creek Naval Radio Station, one of the very first command, control and communication targets.
I remember reading so goddamned many similar articles in the 1970s and 1980s...
Only about the Soviet Union...
SOVIETS WILL CRUSH THE US IN A WAR! THEIR WEAPONS ARE NOT ONLY BETTER THAN OURS, BUT THERE ARE MORE OF THEM!!!
along with...
THE UNITED STATES IS IN TERMINAL NADIR! WE NEED TO EMBRACE THE FACT THAT THE SOVIET UNION IS IN PERMANENT ASCENDANCY AND THE US IS NOW JUST A HAS BEEN!
All of those fucksticks whose hopes, dreams, and expectations for the glorious rise of Soviet Communism crushing evil Western capitalism were left bereft by the collapse of the Soviet Union... but now they have a new hope upon which to hang their hatred of capitalism -- China.
They've picked up the torch and are using it to light fires of doom, gloom, and secretly, hope that the death of American capitalism is just a hairsbreadth away.
THE CHINESE HAVE MORE, AND BETTER, WEAPONS THAT WE DO! THEY'VE PASSED US IN EVERY TECHNOLOGICAL AND MILITARY CATEGORY THERE IS! WE NEED TO ACCEPT THAT AMERICA IS IN NADIR, AND COMMUNIST CHINA IS NOW THE NEW WORLD LEADER IN EVERY CATEGORY THERE IS!
Yeah... .whatever.
Our biggest enemy in an all out war with China?
It's not China.
It's our own Government. As in Joe Biden, Kamela Harris, AOC and her squad of America haters.
If the US were to really hope to win a war against China, those elements would have to be marginalized and minimized quickly and effectively, or as active lovers of all things Chinese they could quickly derail any effective response to Chinese aggression.