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WSJ's usual (anti-Chinese) jingoism completely detached from reality
They are laughing at the depletion of interceptor stocks that will take 5 to 7 years to replenish, not to mention the guided munitions that will take several more years to replace.
They are laughing at Americaâs impotence in protecting its bases and its allies. But more than that, they are paying close attention to the loss of more than $1 billion just in aircraft.
There is no one happier today than the Chinese strategists who are watching from the front row as the false American umbrella, sold at a premium price for decades to several countries, is being exposed.
Based on what we have seen in the Gulf and knowing the number of batteries on both sides, I dare say that the air defenses of Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan would be exhausted in 48 hours in the event of a Chinese attack.
And there is nothing that can be done about it in the short term.
It is time for everyone to adjust diplomatically and stop growling while relying on American dentures, because Trump and Netanyahu have exposed the vulnerabilities of this model and thrown away decades of work.
That's where you are totally fucking ignorant. Australia is caught between a rock and a hard place. There is nothing better that China could do to entrench Australia into further sucking up to the US. The current government won by not being MAGA. But it is a precarious position and we have to exist. If we can't buy from the Chinese like under normal conditions we will be forced to buy from the US, who are even happier to screw us. I do think they should do more to shut of gas to China if China continues to fuck us over diesel.
Wait, the conditions are not normal? How come?
You don't have to be MAGA to be a US bootlicker. See Starmer. Or the mirror.
Hey, you could just ignite another trade war with China. MAGA would approve. ð
That's where you are totally fucking ignorant. Australia is caught between a rock and a hard place. There is nothing better that China could do to entrench Australia into further sucking up to the US. The current government won by not being MAGA. But it is a precarious position and we have to exist. If we can't buy from the Chinese like under normal conditions we will be forced to buy from the US, who are even happier to screw us. I do think they should do more to shut of gas to China if China continues to fuck us over diesel.
Yeah, China was happy to work with Australia to provide refined products and is happy to keep getting liquified natural gas at lower cost than you can buy it in Australia, but is also happy to leave Australia in the lurch
Yeah, China was happy to work with Australia to provide refined products and is happy to keep getting liquified natural gas at lower cost than you can buy it in Australia, but is also happy to leave Australia in the lurch
For many Western analysts, Chinaâs response to the Iran crisis seems to confirm a familiar verdict: Beijing is an unreliable friend. It buys Iranian oil, denounces unilateral military action, calls for restraintâand then stops short of doing what they believe a great power should do for a partner under pressure: come to its aid militarily, either directly or through supplying arms and funding.
It is certainly true that China is not willing to play the same role for Iran that the United States has long assumed for its own partners. But that does not mean that China is feckless, nor does it mean that its ties with Iran are insincere. It means, above all, that too many observers still measure every rising power against a U.S. template.
In Washington, power is still read through the grammar of alliances, security guarantees, and the conversion of political relationships into military obligations. Once that template is assumed to be universal, any refusal to act as a military patron becomes evidence of weakness. Yet Beijing has never organized power quite that wayâand the reasons are not reducible to a single cynical calculation. (...)
