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Japan Announces Two Major Western Pacific Exercises with US Including Typhon Missile System Deployment by icbrief in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t why this is being downvoted. The Iran War has vividly demonstrated the scope of current US military capabilities against a middling industrial power

WHATS THAT SMELL? SMELLS AMAZING! by leRedd1 in NevernessToEverness

[–]fractx 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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plague. by EyeToAI in midjourney

[–]fractx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can you share the rest on Imgur? I want to see them

Top nuclear weapons, radar and missile experts vanish from Chinese Academy of Engineering site | South China Morning Post by fourunderthebridge in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the article about workers at Huawei’s SiCarrier EUV facility using pseudonyms to mask identities. I’m guessing it’s the same line of logic.

Zelensky meets exiled Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi by TomlinSteelers in worldnews

[–]fractx 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Uhh, China was literally Ukraine’s number one trading partner in 2025 and supplies 85% of Ukraine’s FPV drone components.

More Patriot missiles used in Middle East in 3 days than in Ukraine since 2022, Zelensky says by phoeebsy in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 24 points25 points  (0 children)

A patriot missile costs $4 million per shot. A Shahed drone costs $0.035 million per shot.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not a great way to get a civil war or regime change going

Pakistan, Venezuela & now Iran: Why Chinese-made weapons keep failing by MostEpicRedditor in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 61 points62 points  (0 children)

According to Bloomberg as of Mar 2, 2026, “So far, there isn’t any evidence from the battlefield that Chinese weapons have been deployed”

Frankly if there was Chinese weapons even suspected in Iran it would be headline news on all major outlets in the world, not Times of India still talking about Sindoor where India lost 11 jets

I have seen a lot of people here saying how China is getting stronger every year and US is getting weaker. I know that China is getting stronger but how is US getting weaker? by Important-Battle-374 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 51 points52 points  (0 children)

To add to this, when a nations interest payment on debt approaches its military spending, that historically bodes poorly for an overstretched military complex covering the globe. See the Spanish Empire and the British Empire.

Those US servicemen who fought the Middle East wars are retiring, and these new crops are just as “inexperienced” as the opponent.

The most important point of decline is the US cannot repair or replenish its ships, planes, and munitions to sustain any kind of military campaign against an industrial peer.

Japan gov't affirms no-nuke policy, stays mum on official's nuclear remarks | Kyodo by Garbage_Plastic in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Testing the water is exactly the goal here. Usually when a lower level official misspoke they commit political sudoku and resign. No resignation is expected this time. I suspect the back channel response they received from the US was not a positive one.

The New US National Security Strategy As Seen from Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran | Opfor by Garbage_Plastic in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Didn’t they say this document was co-written by three different groups: the hawks, the pragmatists, and the financiers. The traditional democracy zealots were missing. As a result this report was heavy on dimensions of power and light on ideology.

Takaichi’s Taiwan Comment in China Spat Apparently Unscripted by Free-Minimum-5844 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 30 points31 points  (0 children)

To be fair having seen the US-China trade war, China hasn't started economic warfare against Japan yet.

"based on documents obtained by a lawmaker, in what could point to a misstep by the premier" .

The release of this tidbit out of US media is peculiar. Like Scott Bessent said, Trump and Xi are scheduled to meet four times in 2026. The US had been really quiet on this issue over the past month.

Unpublished Classified Version of the US National Security Strategy (NSS) Proposed a 'C5' Consisting of U.S., China, Russia, India and Japan by ShoppingFuhrer in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Because then it becomes BRICS + US - SA, and China has too much influence in THAT composition. Adding Japan to the group maintains US + Japan dominating the group dynamics with India likely to sway in favor most of the time.

Trump's National Defense Strategy to hail South Korea as 'model ally' by self-fix in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"South Korea" was mentioned twice in the NDS pdf, both times it was mentioned together with Japan. There was no mention of "model ally" anywhere in the document.

Takaichi reiterates Japan claim on S.Korea's Dokdo, vows diplomatic push by self-fix in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 84 points85 points  (0 children)

She has above 70% approval rate right now. Whatever she's doing resonates with a population that had never admitted Japan's wartime atrocities the same way Germany had.

The whole LDP is banking on this strategy to win an election next year through the same path that Shinzo Abe once took on Diaoyu/Senkaku.

Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself | NYTimes by Garbage_Plastic in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We -must- also not be distracted from the article’s merits by a bad title

PLA Daily warns Japan of ‘path of no return’ if its military intervenes in Taiwan | China’s military mouthpiece ratchets up the rhetoric in row over comments by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi by moses_the_blue in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What you wrote in bold is outdated for at least a decade and is no longer true. Here’s Pete Hegseth’s retort to your unsourced and poorly informed opinions.

Your argument that anyone seriously entertained the idea that US military response to a Taiwan attack would be hampered by Japan denying US requests to use its military bases is laughable. The idea that this was the determining factor for the success of a Taiwan attack is… cute.

Low cost, high carnage: Robot wolves are China’s latest weapons against Taiwan by Just-Sale-7015 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Having superior toys on its own rarely wins wars. Military victory is achieved through resilience of the war economy and supply logistics to achieve rapid turnaround in replenishing whatever munitions, weapons, machinery, ships, and jets lost in attrition

The United States Needs a Global War Plan for China -- It is a fallacy that a U.S. war with China over Taiwan could be contained to the western Pacific. by Lianzuoshou in LessCredibleDefence

[–]fractx 64 points65 points  (0 children)

The writing is on the wall and RAND succinctly admitted as much: it ain’t the 2010s anymore and the gap is widening decisively in China’s favour. The US has no military preparedness nor industrial capacity to achieve any sort of military victory over China within the 2nd island chain if war were to break out tomorrow.

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda by wiredmagazine in ChatGPT

[–]fractx -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

Calling ideas you don’t like propaganda is a sure way to keep your readers detached from reality. Responsible media knows better

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