At this point, China is probably patiently waiting for the orders to come in from anyone boycotting or getting hit with tariffs by the US.
BYD are probably feeling good right now.
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I toyed with getting one!
China entered into a phase a few years ago where they reap the benefits of all the outsourcing the rest of the world made.
Unsurprisingly, if you pay people to do a certain thing for long enough then they get pretty good at it…
Then they start making their own stuff (occasionally taking inspiration from your designs).
Also, costs in China re far lower and health and safety considerations are not at the top of the list. China also has food pricing controls on all the staple foods.
Waiting for Putin to say no and the urine-drinking POTUS to tell us how it’s Zelenskyy’s fault.
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I see Poland and the Baltics have withdrawn from the landmine treaty, turns out that being able to effectively wage war is more important than virtue signalling treaties.
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Can’t blame them, anti-personnel and anti-vehicle landmines and claymore mines effectively funnel your enemy into killing grounds that you can more easily defend.
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They’ve hanged up on it?
They’re being switched off soon aren’t they? Digital VoIP etc?
More seriously I expect to see states dropping the ban on cluster munitions too.
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But something not as mad as JP233.
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Proper bit of kit!
Just don’t be flying the aircraft deploying it. Even the USAF rejected it as a concept.
Wasn’t sure whether to put this here or in the Trump thread but surely the Cousins can’t continue to cosy up to Putin after today?
Can they?
They seem to be able to ignore everything that’s happened up until now, so surely they can just ignore this too, sadly?
Just putting this one here
(Has it really been 3 years?)
Anyone else see the Chinese pushing that they have evidence COVID-19 started in the USA?
This is a guarentee.
If the island of Taiwan looks likely to fall, the last pair of B1s or a flight of B2s will flatten each and every high tech site on that rock.
Relying on the so called ‘kill switch’ which is supposedy built into the factories is not something the US will do.
Scorched earth.
Also has the side effect of the Taiwanese knowing that if they dont put up a sufficent fight to repel invaders their GDP and lifestyle affordance will be over.
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Part of me also suspects that key individual’s will already have been identified and marked for extraction, operation paperclip style, so that knowledge cant fall into enemy hands either.
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Naa mate, plenty of those still around.
Just called OF now…
I’d call that a mischaracterisation of what a flapper was, but ok.
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Not so sure that’s as relevant. Plenty of people know how, they just don’t have the technology and those running the machines and the factories aren’t those that design and make the machines - those aren’t in Taiwan or China and the latter isn’t about to roll into the Netherlands.
Not to say that extractions won’t happen though, just not as an “at any cost” priority.
As for flattening the place, it would be Donny T giving the go/no-go order.