America: I’ve assembled an elite team of Uberimperialist super soldiers to protect Taiwan! China: Cool. I have assembled an elite team of 10000 $25 drones which are approaching their location rapidly
America: I’ve assembled an elite team of Uberimperialist super soldiers to protect Taiwan! China: Cool. I have assembled an elite team of 10000 $25 drones which are approaching their location rapidly
I think that China could do absolutely untold damage to the American psyche and illusion of invulnerability if it simply instantly obliterated these clowns on Taiwan from hundreds of kilometers away with a cloud of drones dense enough to block out the sun. America treats the navy seals like they are all Master Chief, when in reality they are just guys who can carry a log and swim for a long time or some shit. Maybe that matters when you’re like… raiding a compound of a guy who has been on the run for decades while he’s asleep with Neon Genesis Evangelion playing on the TV, but genuinely what are these guys going to do to actually fight back against China? China will never even let them see a single PLA soldier lmao.
This is a perfect example of the kind of passively fascist mystical thinking that we westerners are trained to engage in, where Great Man Theory meets Triumph of the Will. What's so special about about these guys? Practically speaking, they're a hit squad who killed an old man in his house, that's their military specialty. But because that old man was Osama Bin Laden, AKA the Voldemort of the early 2000s, killing him must have taken something special. After all, he just walked out of the Afghan mountains one day, waved his Great Man Wand, and made 9/11 happen. Such a powerful and mysterious sorcerer of history could only be taken down by an even more powerful group of heroes, like the heckin Avengers. If Seal Team whatever managed to break into his house and shoot him in the face, then they must be those heroes. They killed a powerful named character after all, what chance does a bunch of nameless Chinese missiles have?
Remember when all those ex-spec ops idiots volunteered for Ukraine and then either got got or fled home whining about "russian war doctrine" (being able to contest air superiority)
Laughed my ass off about that canadian sniper who died a few days after arriving. Yeah dude you shoot brown kids and think you're a badass, fuck youI think that China could do absolutely untold damage to the American psyche and illusion of invulnerability if it simply instantly obliterated these clowns on Taiwan from hundreds of kilometers away with a cloud of drones dense enough to block out the sun.
IDK about this, I think this is quite unrealistic and almost mythical level thinking.
IMO drones work well in Ukraine because its a huge battlefield we haven't seen something like this since WW2. For some context the Ukraine war front is well over 1000km.
The current Korean DMZ is a "tiny" 250km. The Taiwan straight is also something like 300kmx180km or so.
This means that both sides have trouble providing consistent and effective air cover for their troops, despite the Russian natural advantage Ukrainian drones are still quite effective.
Turning to Taiwan this is the opposite, it would be a very concentrated battle and anti-drone systems should be more effective simply because its a smaller area.
China already achieved military superiority over the US and the conflict will be decided over naval superiority by destroying or even damaging the US carrier fleet. In fact I do like the theory sinking a US carrier would be far worse than 9/11 for the average population and internal US politics, although perhaps that would mean accepting a WW3.
Skip forward two months:
"Hey guys, we successfully repelled the mainland Chinese invasion of occupied Formosa!!
What? No, you can't see any evidence of this. We sunk all of their ships in the Taiwan Strait so you'll just have to take our word for it that we actually achieved what we said we did and trust that this isn't another example of our unit pulling another political theatre manoeuvre."
😎😎
while he’s asleep with Neon Genesis Evangelion playing on the TV
🎵 Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dowwwwwwn~ 🎵
🎵 [The US keeps] letting me down, letting me down, letting me down~ 🎵Uberimperialist sounds like a unit from Command and Conquer lol.
Wtf the navy seals unit that killed Bin Laden going to do when China "invades" Taiwan? I don't thin China will ever invade Taiwan. If they ever want to force reunification, they can just support a military coup. These navy seals will probably get killed/captured by the ROC military.
huh? didn't they allegedly die in a helicopter crash??
