China is also quite fragile.

The USA won.

All of China’s neighbors hate them

There was a case where nuclear war almost happened because of a glitch

They're shifting towards a service based economy @leavethisbotnet

Honestly

But it didn't @Sire Fagsalot

kek

China is too reliant on exports

We need to ditch Ukraine and have a rapprochement with the Russians

Exports which they are reducing @leavethisbotnet

"Everyone almost died"
"Yeah but they didn't so let's keep doing this"

Imagine we were in a cold war with china and something like the Hawaii scare happens again?

Yeah but the politicians of those countries still sell their countries to China. Widespread corruption & treachery

The Russians can be a valuable ally against Beijing

Do you think the governments going to waitto see if it's a false alarm?

It didn't happen though @Sire Fagsalot

China wont be this vulnerable forever, but right now, they are.

@Sire Fagsalot yes they will

@Nathan James 123

Our allies have militaries in the same way that if there's a broken down Yugo in your back yard you "own a car". Remember Kosovo? That was when our "allies" had a problem in their own back yard. They responded by wringing their hands and complaining until daddy decided to fix it for them.

Remember when France decided to punish ISIS for the Paris attacks? Yeah they unleashed the fury of 10 planes and 20 fucking bombs. Bearing in mind this is the same "ally" that refused airspace to our airforce.

There were numerous scares during the Cold War

They're also vulnerable in regards to oil/gas

And every time no one fired

The USA was the one that pushed for involvement. @Jym

Europe was fine to just sit back and let it happen.

I really don’t think Nuclear weapons will ever be used unless there is a dead hand in place or an algorithm is in control of them... but I repeat myself

That's why china's siezing up various ports & claiming the south china sea

"ISIS" Remember when America caused the creation of ISIS?

There's oil there as well

"ally" Remember when America helped create the Argentina military Junta and then left Britain to defend itself

Chile offered them more support.

Remember when America said Sadam had weapons of mass destruction?

Great ally then.

America didn't actually say that

Stop thinking America is the shining light of goodness. It's not @Jym

@Nathan James 123 Reagan also offered Thatcher a USN Carrier group during the Falklands too though

Also stop thinking your allies are weak

They're not.

Relatively speaking, they are

If the UK lost it's carrier @Sawyer42

So after thousands were dead.