Gucci_Minh

Every time I talk to Indian colleagues it's always about potential. They're always saying India has so much potential, but something is keeping them back. So many brilliant minds hampered by lack of infrastructure and development, imagine where India would be if it was socialist and spent the last 70 years developing infrastructure and logistics at the intensity that China did.

Realpolitik considerations mostly:

• China has little arable land and limited oil/natural gas

• China has a lot of iron ore but none of it is high quality (lots of prospecting and refining needed, much easier and cheaper to buy from )

• China relies on international shipping and trade and is vulnerable to sanctions and blockades in this aspect moreso than say Russia who has all this stuff within their own borders.

• The Belt and Road Initiative is still in development, and not sufficient to replace shipping in case of blockade.

  Essentially, China has to be milquetoast liberals on the international stage because if they did international relations on a purely ideological framework they would be a pariah state again and everyone in China would suffer for it. Not saying they can't do better, there are a lot of actual liberals in the party after all, but if China pressed the communism button today on its foreign policy China would be a lot poorer and we'd probably be a lot closer to nuclear war than we already are.

PLAAF is a lot more realistic about dogfighting when BVR missiles are a thing:

see???????? in american culture its perfectly fine to murder random poeple.

wheres the lie tho

Yeah fancy stealth jets are really only a prestige toy for massive economies, winning wars depends on how many 152/155mm guns and suicide drones you have, and the more 152/155mm guns and suicide drones you have, the more winning you do. Napoleon didn't have suicide drones at the time, but if he did, he would have added them to that quote about artillery.

Holy shit the point blank shot against the Namer is insane, what is the crew even doing? No situational awareness, only vibes.

Lol any Chinese person can tell you this, China's propaganda department is run by boomers who grew up during the high point of west worshipping civility fetishism in China, and as such are incapable of making relatable grey/black propaganda. They could hire some zoomer douyin/weibo/xhs shitposter and they would do a better job at PR than the entirety of CGTN.

They should launch some scuds on Saudi refineries again, as a social experiment.

Does the smol baby have a T-80?

The US can just keep out of range, since anti ship missiles can go out to a few hundred KM but certain cruise missiles from planes can go over a thousand (Iran has probably only supplied Yemen with older subsonic Chinese missiles as well, stuff like HY-2/C-802, and not the cool new shit). Yemen could launch ballistic missiles but those are really hard to guide to a moving target as small as a carrier group without much more advanced tech that basically only China has focused on.

If you get one of the Danish sailors drunk enough and make him hold the joystick his natural drunken sway will counteract the waves, acting like a natural gun stabilizer, no FCS needed.

I hate how it still differentiates China from the "developed world" as if China hasn't already surpassed western Europe and North America in the majority of metrics.