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A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had “redundancy after redundancy” for “every trick we had up our sleeve”, The New York Times reported.

Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that “we lose every time” in the Pentagon’s war games against China, and predicted the Asian country’s hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Yeah, but we all know that Russia is a country run by slovenly drunken morons with institutional ignorance, while China is country who has its shit totally together. I’m not that afraid of Russia, but China is terrifying.

    After MAGA, China will be the dominant world power, and we will find out what it feels like to be a country who has to sit back and hope the machinations of other governments are good for us, and accept whatever we get.

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      China has huge problems domestically. They still haven’t climbed out of the hole they dug with their real estate scams.

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        they also have massive corruption, which is the biggest problem the russians have.

        the russian military was massively undertrained, underequipped, and underexperienced. all of their ‘stats’ were massively inflated due to the instiutional corruoption rampant form bottom to top that inflated everything.

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        Whatever problems they’ve got, they can’t come close to ours. Our society is literally on the verge of collapse, and the entire world sees it. China is totally ready to take over the global hegemony.