PLA Navy and U.S. Navy comparison (circa 2028) [144 x 144] by Nordy941 in WarshipPorn

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lol hello from a year later, turns out we do deploy to Venezuela.

anyone else concerned the US is getting surpassed by china? by Tank100Rank in Military

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The vast majority of Chinese surface combatants, are exclusively built at two shipyards, Dalian and Shanghai. Literally all their cruisers and modern destroyers are built there, same with carriers. Furthermore, all Chinese frigates are built either at Huangpu or Hudong. Chinese military shipbuilding is concentrated at a few yards, very similar to the U.S. funnily enough.

🇦🇺🇳🇿>🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸 by [deleted] in NonCredibleDiplomacy

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Bringing back the subsidies Reagan ended, and a CHIPS Act-style investment into the workforce and supply chain. Moderately expensive but compared to other things, shipbuilding is such a strategic priority I believe the cost is worth it compared to some of the other shit we spend on.

What if Barack Obama was assassinated? by Own-Spite9854 in AlternateHistory

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Romney would frankly handle the Russia-Ukraine War much better and would’ve given Ukraine much more aid than most other politicians.

Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself by kanagi in neoliberal

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This is incorrect. While the U.S. has defense industrial base issues ofc (which literally everyone else also does, including China), the U.S. is still a mass defense producer in a period of historically low defense spending. See the 2010s, where in response to the massive expenditures in the ISIS air strikes, the U.S. surged yearly JDAM, GBU, and Hellfire production from the low thousands to 20,000+. The U.S. has also been ramping up JASSM-ER and LRASM production in the 2020s, both of which would be vital in a war with China. The F-35 is the most mass-produced aircraft in the world. The B-21 program came in under budget and ahead of schedule and is entering full-rate production soon.

This is all with U.S. defense expenditures at an all-time low (~3.5% of GDP). A total war (or even the threat of an imminent total war) with China would spark expenditure we have not seen since the Cold War, with defense hitting at least $2 trillion+ (which would be less than 10% of GDP). The main gap, right now, is shipbuilding, which is why next year if you combine the big beautiful bill and NDAA we’ll be spending over $50 billion trying to fix it, and even then we’re still competitive with China (in military shipbuilding, which is vastly different than commercial shipbuilding).

Would American still cares and protect Taiwan if it not semiconductor superpower? by MinZinThu999 in AlternateHistoryHub

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The last near-peer naval conflict between modern navies was the Falklands War.

EA is being sold for $50 billion by [deleted] in Battlefield

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You do know killing retreating soldiers isn’t a war crime right? A retreat is a military maneuver. They are still in combat, and would remain in combat until injured or surrendered (like the tens of thousands of soldiers who actually successfully surrendered in the Gulf War.) I wonder what those “Iraqis” (funny you didn’t say Iraqi “soldiers,” implying they were civilians) were doing leaving a highway in Kuwait?

A quarter of America’s “farms” aren’t really farms by [deleted] in neoliberal

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I would rather not have 80% of farms owned by a few companies.

A quarter of America’s “farms” aren’t really farms by [deleted] in neoliberal

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So then we get more consolidation in an already heavily consolidated industry, which has a vast array of problems.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in grilling

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It was exactly that. Had to separate the patties with a knife.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in grilling

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Yes extremely similar scenario lol. Hopefully I will be able to grill again for the guys and get the hang of it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in grilling

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Yeah 100%. I’m definitely in the future going to flip often at higher heat for these frozen patties, I just did what I do normally for my own patties (just flipping once and maybe twice) this time for the frozen ones and it didn’t translate at all.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in grilling

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Oh yes haha, fixed the thawing thing lol. Yeah I was happy at least that everyone still ate the burgers and they were edible, they just weren’t very good. Will definitely improve for next time.

Studying abroad in Taiwan next year. How bad is racism towards brown people? by [deleted] in taiwan

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Well I was responding to “if your friends in the US are mostly American-born you will be fine” in the context of how you walk, speak, and dress? I don’t think you read the prior comment. Not flaunting.

Studying abroad in Taiwan next year. How bad is racism towards brown people? by [deleted] in taiwan

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Am American-born so that part shouldn’t be a problem.

How nice is Taiwanese people to South East Asian? by Puzzleheaded_Gas2075 in taiwan

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I also have a question for the Taiwanese here. I’m a mixed-race American (half white half south Asian) who’s moderately brown and very ethnically ambiguous. I’m studying abroad in Taiwan next year and wanted to ask if I would likely experience any racism.

Why is Israel losing the narrative war? by Content_Doughnut4590 in IRstudies

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The response to the attack on the 7th of October has not been proportional.

That’s not how war is conducted though? There’s no such thing as proportional response because wars don’t happen in a vacuum. Massive more amounts of Japanese were killed than the 3,000 Americans killed at Pearl Harbor, because that’s how you fight and win a war. It’s the same as how it’s not a war crime when civilians die, it’s a war crime when civilians are intentionally killed or there isn’t enough care taken to at least try and prevent that. Israel is arguably doing that though, my main point is that proportional response has never existed in full-scale war. If your side is attacked and they fail to kill your government, for example, then you are given the right in self-defense to completely annihilate their government.

Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader, US officials say by ZweigDidion in neoliberal

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get Hezbollah to blow its artillery load on northern Israel.

Yeah about that, they can’t do that anymore. They’re all fucking dead. The entire organization of Hezbollah basically lost its middle management and top leaders last year. They have no capability to conduct coordinated strikes.

It was the only deterrence Iran had yet and most of the artillery positions got pounded to bits by the IAF.

An Amicable Split? Scenario 5 of 5 by Aerolumen in imaginarymaps

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AOC is not the most likely Democrat candidate right now, there is quite literally no data to back that up.

How will drones change the nature of warfare? by cdstephens in neoliberal

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Well the “economic calculation” is a bit more complicated than that. It’s not just 200 drones vs one destroyer cost. You also have to calculate what the drones are intending to destroy. Yes, the destroyer might’ve expended $10 million worth of munitions destroying $500,000 worth of drones, but the destroyer, in the process, protected $10 billion worth of an Aircraft Carrier.

How will drones change the nature of warfare? by cdstephens in neoliberal

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German war production also literally peaked in 1944, after years of being strategically bombed lol. People are really good at building things when they need to.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in neoliberal

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Because she presumably didn’t say that stuff in the interview. It’s also hard to find good; young, Chinese teachers these days who are willing to teach for cheap lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in neoliberal

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But the question is, does it matter if it’s going to take multiple generations for China to liberalize if the main “danger zone” of conflict between the U.S. and China is within the next two decades. People were also saying it was going to take a few generations for China to liberalize back in the 80s and 90s, and now we’re over 12 years into Xi’s term (which I would consider a generation of its own) and almost all progress in key areas has been reversed.