Mike

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This is an extremely important point that I've been thinking about ever since we got an unexpected audit of Venezuela's air defenses. Russian SAM-300s and BUKs, Chinese anti-air radar, all proved completely worthless against U.S. gear and operators. I guarantee you that if you are a Chinese military planner contemplating how to get an invasion army across 100 miles of the Straits of Taiwan, you are shitting your pants right about now. Because you have just learned that if you had tried to bust that move yesterday, your nice shiny new invasion fleet would have gotten absolutely gacked by U.S. airpower and missiles that you wouldn't see coming BECAUSE YOUR FUCKING RADARS DON'T FUCKING WORK. Also, the Soviet anti-air missile designs you cloned turn out to be about as useful as so many busted shopping carts. Some of your guys are going to be saying "That's impossible. The fix must have been in. Air defense must have had orders not to engage." Which is an extremely cheering thought, but... ...isn't that what the Americans would want you to believe? The only thing better than having complete technological dominance of an adversary is having complete technological dominance of an adversary who's been conned into believing it isn't true and walks blithely into getting utterly wrecked by it. Yep. Before this went down I was figuring a very high probability that the Chinese make their move on Taiwan in 2027. Now? I guarantee you that their confidence in their previous risk assessments has evaporated. They no longer know what they'll be facing, and there's a significant possibility that mainland China's domestic air defenses are worthless too. Now I'm going to suggest that you juxtapose two phrases: "thermobaric bombs" and "Three Gorges Dam". A China that's naked from the air has the biggest glass jaw in human history. Now I think there's pretty good odds that the invasion of Taiwan will never happen at all.

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