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He told the New York Times that he thinks the U.S. will “very likely” find itself in a three-front war with China, Russia, and Iran. As a result, he said, the Pentagon should continue developing autonomous weapons at full speed, pointing to big mismatches in how far the U.S. would be willing to go while fighting a war compared with other countries.
Ridiculous. There is no possible way that HitlerPig will go to war against Russia. What is far more likely, is that he abandons NATO, and signs a pact with Russia, China, and North Korea.
As a show of good faith, we will surrender Taiwan to China, and Alaska to Russia (establishing a Russian military presence in our hemisphere, on our landmass), and in exchange, we can have Canada and Mexico.
HitlerPig would consider that a good deal.
And at home, America will eventually fight against America.
No, America will fight against traitors.
You know this fucking guy loathes himself
Lol nah, China is winning by a long margin in this neo-capitalistic world, no way they are going to war against US. They have all the time in the world to regain Taïwan.
He says shit like this to juice his stock and defense contracts.
The US could probably take on Russia and Iran without much effort, but isn't China's military actually comparable to the US'?
In tech, yes. In expenditure; no.
But they arent as much of a violently corrupt politically theatrical shit show, so id put it at roughly even odds.
China considers itself a regional power, and doesn't delude itself into calling itself a world power like Russia does. So it's unlikely they'd direct any strikes at CONUS if a war broke out. They would instead try to force all US/allied influences out of their sphere of influence and just play the defensive game until some kind of peace could be negotiated.
They have aspirations to become a global power in the next century and possibly could do it, the real question is do they intend to share the stage with the US or find ways to erode US power down to regional power and rise up to take their place?
I think that if a war was to break out, it would be like US vs Japan in WW2. Except we would be Japan and China would be the US.
The Japanese had superior weapons and ships, but were unable to replace losses in a timely fashion, leading to being dominant in the beginning of the war, but once the US manufacturing base started producing weapons and ships, the Japanese were quickly overwhelmed and unable to keep up.
The Chinese have little to no capacity for long range strikes. As long as you stay out of the way, they can't do very much.
No. Only slightly in number of people. And even then, they're probably more Russian like than we're expecting.
TBF I could have told you that was a real possibility like 3 or 4 years ago at least, but at that time I would have said it was unlikely because theres no way everybody just forgets how bad the Trump admin was and elects more republicans. The USA would have to be steeped in mental illness and masochistic mouthbreathing assholes for them to elect someone like Trump who escalates the situation.
Something something BRICS
So the guy who runs the AI intelligence corporation thinks the West is morally superior to the degree that more amoral, barbarous countries like China and Russia and Iran have some advantage over us.
Like it's just sensitive and soft westerners fighting against robotic Asians and Russians. Iranians are so evil compared to us: they're willing to use nukes!
Lunatics are truly running the asylum.
If we can't clean up Iran quickly there's gonna be a no front war because China will roll us
Bet you China has some checkmate against carriers they'll pull from their sleeve if things go hot.
Chinese think many steps ahead so they won't escalate until victory is very likely.
Psychopaths
I'd rather fight a one front war against palantir
Wtf is going on with that hair?
It's fighting a 360 front war