China’s Army posts “Preparing for war!”

lol 1979 was the last war they were in IIRC ? Kinda reminds me of the Russian videos before we saw what happened in Ukraine. Large formations, convoys. Someone should tell them it's not last century. Unless were invading china how are they going to project the supposed power.

Not that American carrier strike groups will even necessarily be involved, because Taiwanese conventional anti ship defences will make the Straights a shooting gallery. Tens of thousands of PRC mariners will drown in the first few hours alone without Uncle Sam's hand.

Leaving that aside, can the PRC's super dooper magic missiles sink Guam? Okinawa? Osan Air Force Base in Korea? Like f*ck they can.

From scramble to sinking Chinese landing craft in the middle of the straights would be less than 20 minutes from Kadena base for an F35. Think about that for a second.

The Chinese navy is in deep sh*t even without America commiting itself in the opening salvos anyway.

Tankies need to stop daydreaming. A landing attempt on Taiwan is a ready-made disaster for Beijing.

How do you sink Okinawa? And do you think the PLA would dare trigger the US Japan mutual defence treaty if they were thick enough to even so much as set off a firework in its direction?

Use your brain. The PRC is outmatched even before it has started. You're daydreaming. In any case, carrier strike groups will be sitting outside the first island chain screaming in at Mach speeds sinking vessels for sport in this hypothetical scenario.

Take the edgelord pogs to another conflict. Maybe there's a sh*tbox autocrat somewhere in Africa that might be worth a punt for your kicks, because the Chinese will drown by the tens of thousands if they get stupid.

The nosie you're hearing from Beijing is autocrat impotent rage about an old lady landing at an airport in Taipei. That's not strength.

An attempted invasion of Taiwan would of course be an apalling vista, but I would welcome it in one respect:

Watching the absolute comedy of the Chinese air force and their potemkin indigenous jets get absolutely rinsed by everything from the F18s, F22s to F35s.

Chinese airframes start out as an ersatz copy of an American one, they swiftly find out things like their native developed engines, wing profiles, avionics etc are sh*t - so they cobble together a reverse engineered solution with off-the-rack Russian components from an older platform. You end up with a Frankenstein kit with significant ad hoc changes across the platform that differs from one maintenance facility to the next. Add in the problem that Russian supply chains in their aerospace sector is f*cked.

Those pieces of sh*t will fall out of the sky over Fujian province before Taiwanese missiles can put them out of their misery. It'll be a comedy show.

They are actually quite vulnerable to modern missile technology, America's carriers are not only their biggest asset but also their achilles heel.

If they start losing those then their main ability to project power around the globe is finished and they are fcuked as a superpower.And getting into a war with China means losing them is a very strong probability.

China is not Grenada or Iraq where American aircraft carriers heading toward look big and scary, heading toward a giant industrial and technological power like China they will just look pathetic.

I cannot think what is at all unusual with any country's military forces tweeting that they are "ready for war" , that is exactly what they are supposed to be?

All countries use enticing media to embellish their armed forces and to give their citizens a sense of security and raise patriotic sentiment - just look at the British Navy advertisements on UK terrestrial television showing young men and women touring the world and jumping out of Helicopters and cocking their shining weapons ( sorry that was a slip of the tongue ).

It is kind of ironic that Taiwan is probably the world's largest producer of plastic Toy army paraphernalia, designed to encourage our youth into glamorising war, possibly one of the most sinister acts of product placement globally.

The US have pawned Taiwan for years, not so long after they dropped 2 nuclear bombs on their neighbours in the middle of the last century, just to show the rest of us that they can if they want to. It never ceases to amaze me how everyone forgets the simple fact that they annihilated two cities and their inhabitants ( roughly 300,000 people, quite arguably a genocide ) in the space of a week - and then attempt to portray themselves as the modern pioneers and gatekeepers of global justice? Give me a break please.

I would imagine any Tweets raising awareness of the Chinese Military, especially communications in English, are most likely instigated by the CIA as part of any US domestic propaganda policy aimed at their gormless general public, whilst simultaneously attempting to validate their existence as global saviours to anyone left alive on the planet who are gullible enough not to see through them.

I will probably be put on a list somewhere on a dataset in Langley now after sharing my valuable opinion, I reckon classified somewhere between Defcon 2 or 3, with a highlight over my IP address for a local CIA agent to qualify where I live and work at some stage over the next few weeks. If you ever want to meet a CIA spook operating in Ireland I reckon your best bet is to hit Dicey Riley's on Super bowl night, it is an itch they cannot help scratching, Hot Dogs and all. In fairness I reckon the Irish gig is probably considered a handy enough number amongst their agents, a far cry from instigating public unrest in "hostile" 3rd world countries, deemed necessary by a trope of anal, grey suited stooges in Washington DC.

Severe sanctions from China? They don't make anything worth a damn that can't be made in Vietnam or elsewhere. Supply chains containing anything critical are already moving away from the PRC.

Japan will definitively fall on the US side and will likely tear up their pacifist constitution within the day.

They'll do without low-value-add Chinese imports for however many months. Their national security is at stake.

People need to knock their delusions on the head. China will become instantly isolated by neighbours if they are thick enough to try it. And Japan as an active military force will be back. Throw South Korea in the mix as well.

They all play nice with China for mercantilist reasons, but all bets will be off instantly if the tankies on thread get their wish - and if Xi is as stupid as they seemingly hope he is. The Chinese aren't half as economically powerful as people want to believe.

Let it all play out if it must. But it's bad news for the creeps in Zhongnanhai.