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.
Tbf…it was a blinder of a tactic
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Indeed, rather effective