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She claims someone else posted the SCI docs:

Those are acts of war.

Still could have been a Russian intel source baiting the gamer into showing the document. :mad:

Infuriating. Someone needs to be hanged for this.

We got a good team. They could do big things this year! Go Gameocks!

Some of the sanctions are starting to make an impact, but dictators/autocrats find ways to survive. Look at Saddam.

Congrats comrade putin. You now have another NATO member on your border.

But a major war would only expedite an ecomonic crisis and further isolate foreign trade. And occupying Taiwan does little if anything to fix what you've described. And FWIW, Japan is also facing a similar crisis with not enough young people.

They need foreign trade "friends" and their markets are not as solid as those in the US. They are economically vulnerable (whether they realize it or not).

That's WWIII & a protracted conflict. The PRC would be risking it all for this. They don't have a lot of friends.

Yea...early days of cold war. Some of this played into the Korean War. Chiang Kai-shek had issues with corruption in his govt. There's a lot of Chinese history from that era.

Beyond "unfinished business from ~1945", the question is why? Why would the PRC risk going to war with multinational forces & devastating their economy for an island that poses no offensive threat? They stand to lose so much more than they gain.

You can only conduct armored offensives part of the year. No use in going on the offensive if all your spiffy western armor gets stuck in mud and destroyed. Wait until all the mud dries up (6-8 weeks). EDIT: I did see a sobering assessment tonight about the state of the UA/ZSU. The Ukrainians...

They are building a huge Taiwanese semi-conductor plant not far from where I live. There has been some wargaming that predicts a western victory in a PRC v. ROC war, with significant losses on all sides ( 2x USN carriers down, etc). China has problems with our fast attack subs. We have some...

It's the Russian way....such swell people.

It was only a matter of time. This could explain some of what's going on in Ukraine right now & why Russia seems desperate to find some kind of victory. Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone WSJ paywalled site, but the headlines are sufficient.

Yea, there's a few pics with here in USC gear on the sidelines.

Supposedly these are being used because the Russians don't have the optics/electronics to fix their more modern tanks. Kinda doesn't make much difference if you have thousands of convicts and conscripts to use to try and wear down the Ukrainians.

Immigrants? Seriously.....what else is there?