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of course its stuff they can control only in peacetime since if a war starts its nationalization o clock.

Albeit probably be much better to remove a lot of the graft and overpricing than increasing the budget other than to counter inflation as related to stuff not in the field of personnel. Aka Healthcare, improving quarters and field kit, food, and of course wages and increasing personnel count...

the difference of course is the unlike Ukraine the geography makes anyone supplying canada impossible and moreover also makes the place indefensible

Peers doesn't mean equals in military terms. Otherwise crap like the Fall of France or the Six Days War don't happen. Or more relevant to the situation in the Pacific. You could call the High Seas Fleet a peer of the Grand Fleet but in a strait clash or in several cases the mere risk of...

Especially given how stopping a good sniper without secret service levels of protection from whacking someone is really hard

The way I figure they presumably think like Mao and somehow figure that them loosing over half a billion people in a exchange for a few of America's largest cities is something we won't be willing to do. Which is massively stupid of course especially since unlike China we have a practical anti...

True but that involves more risk

Honestly all that's needed is a lone B-2 dropping one thede bad boys Massive Ordnance Penetrator - Wikipedia

Too little and too late of course.

The real problem isn't the current elderly population in China it's the next generation of them ie the backbone of China's economy at the present due to the one child policy they won't have nearly enough people to replace the workforce

Honestly China has at best 20 years before its demographics start causing absolutely massive problems. Russia is in a similar boat.

Honestly a cheaper solution is to use all the leftover Mk46 torpedo stocks from the Cold War that various nations almost certainly have lying around

Yeah...given how the Chinese treated Africans during COVID I can't see this working out well in the long run

I could have sworn China had shortage of females due to the one child policy but hey if the ChiComs want to cause more social unrest than they need to more power to them

Fortunately many of the mircostates of the Pacific have good relations with the US for reasons just like these so they can probably get the USN to help them out. Plus they're far enough away from China that the smaller ships China uses to protect its predatory fishing fleets don't have the...