Future Perun note - It looks like we crossed the 500k mark between recording and posting this one. That is, frankly, well beyond where I ever expected this channel to go. I'll reflect on it a bit, and have some thoughts on it next week. I'll also give some thought as to how to mark the milestone. Also - there is a hilarious and i hope obvious error in this one as a result of a typo. No PLAN vessel has a 1.3meter calibre main gun... it is 130mm, not 1330
@@dakaodoIt feels word knowing that I can add “retasking a satellite” to the list of things I can afford to do (but will possibly regret later) when I’m bored drunk on box wine.
@@j.dunlop8295 Arguably, there is a difference between paying to get access to the pictures and paying to get the satellites to take the pictures you want. Sure, the difference is not massive since the satellites are generally continuously taking pictures... But there can be differences.
Ukraine is trying to build 1m “one way drones” to make up for a shortfall in artillery shells, Russia is doing the same with their Item-55. Meanwhile every quadcopter on the frontline in Ukraine has FCUs and motors and batteries made in China.
@@RonTodd-gb1eo if you don’t have a chip fab, the drone relies on chips from a country that does. So you end up sending soldiers to dig F7 microcontrollers out of dead washing machines in a combat zone. If you do have access to even a crap 180nm process node chip fab like the one Texas Instruments still operates in Texas on the continental united states you are good to go for making your own FCUs, motor controllers, gyros, radios etc, all the other parts are fairly easy to source or make. The explosive payloads for the drones have been made from copper sheet, explosives melted out of anti-tank mines provided by the enemy and an old fanta bottle. Now making artillery shells requires investment in heavy industry- 150 year old steel working technology. Big capital investment but the knowledge to do it is widespread. The knowledge to make a chip fab that can actually produce chips is much harder to secure.
ukraine builds 1m, russia builds 8-10m :D there's 20 000 drones scouting and targeting at all times in ukraine , while there's 80-100k of russian drones... the good news is, russia uses shittier drones and slower to adapt to new drone techs... ukrainians shift tactidcs and drone tech and ideas every month ... some estonian guy invented drone target painters , it costs 3k .. heat element is the most expensive , 2,7k$ , and it can target 2-3km ... so you can heat paint drones with lazer basicly... so the rest of ur team can shoot down the drones.... these heat guns gonna be part of the units/drone groups... interesting stuff. after this war or ww3 ... drone swarms will be illegal weapons like cluster bombs probably... noone uses them yet, but they might become a thing in the future ; ]
Hello from Warsaw, Poland. I started following your channel in the 3rd week of march 2022. And back then I thought to myself. He HAS TO BLOW UP, at least up to 50K subs. 2 years later. BOOOOOM. 500 000K. WELL EFFIN DESERVED.
From Kraków, Poland. I also started watching Perun in March 2022 and I agree with my Warsaw colleague that you deserve 500k AT LEAST. And that it was necessary for you to "blow up" in subscribers. If you know how often people from Warsaw and Kraków agree on things - yes, it's a miracle and it isn't Christmas.
Serious question: based on your having listened all this time, were you given to understand in 2022 that Ukraine could win this military conflict with Russia, and if so do you still feel this is possible, or being achieved, etc? Thank you.
You are very smart, a million subscribers wouldnt surprise me at all. I hope your success here will spill over into your professional life,you must be a great asset to the organization that employs you.
Seriously though I reckon another problem they might have is attracting and rewarding patrioitc showmen who have the completely wrong idea about what a good soldier/ officer does
It's Super Bowl Sunday here in the States, but I still woke up more excited to check out the new Perun video than for the big game. You're providing a unique and valuable service, fine sir. Thank you, and congrats on all the success.
Using this to help my heart rate slow from a whine to a purr after finally getting my youngest to do her homework. You, Perun, may well have saved my life.
“We should hit 500k by next week” Meanwhile, the sub count already says 500k before I’ve even started the video. Well done, my friend! You deserve every sub you’ve got!
This is quite literally the best modern military information channel. I'm happy for your success, wish you more, and the only downside of all this is there aren't 2 of you to make more than one update a week. Thanks for your effort sir!
By far, again, the biggest accomplishment of this channel has been…. Drum roll please 🥁 … “The comment section” Everyone’s so god damn polite and normal. So many comments in one place, in this day and age, where everywhere else is festering with trolls and bots, but not here- here are some fine gentleman and ladies manners in the comment section - and I am still amazed by sheer numbers, that it does seem like mathematically impossible in relation to others!Sometimes quantity does reflect quality. And is just amazing, how probably someone can calculate that and say, this comment section has, with this many comments and commentators - rate of politeness that much higher, than the average 😂 love this channel and Perun ❤ People like common sense, and that’s all there is to it ❤
~insert Obama receiving an medal from Obama meme here~ My guess is that people willing to listen an hour are capable of calmly reacting to any trolls or any hotheads calling names. A capability that is shockingly rare in current days
"I doubt any of us just wants Bejing and Washington to sit down and agree to just have a small scale air war so we can collect some hard data on their air combat performance." NCD, sit down. It was a joke.
Fact, when investigating a Civil War (UK) battleground one of the weapons recovered featured a Viking Age blade. Obviously this was a treasured heirloom that was still of use, but it was found in the ground suggesting that the owner did not survive the battle.
“Come on then! Attack us! We are not afraid. You have made a big mistake! I have fought with men whose names you should never be to allowed to utter! I have fought with Ragnar Lothbrok! I have fought with Rollo and Floki. I have lived a real life! Come and fight me! I long for Valhalla!“
During the battle of New Ross in 1798 there was a 2500 year old, late bronze age sword some Irishman dragged out of a tomb and went off to stab Englishmen with He died too, but its the principle of the thing!
Something I try to keep in mind with the Chinese is that there was another unproven military force with a new weapon mix; not much experience, not gigantic, but it had massive logistics/potential behind it. That was the USN carrier force in 1940.
Well, that's kinda true but what I'd focus on was the housecleaning undertaken with regard to the old guard of the officer class (kicking out those committed to old doctrine and politics) in preparation for America's entry into the war. It's often forgotten, but it's kinda like the opposite of Stalin's purge. Right now, China seems to sit somewhere between the two extremes. Plus, the US economy matched the entire global economy decades before WW2. America had long been the world's greatest power but few people had noticed... even in America. China faces a lot of scrutiny, lacks basic resources and the world doesn't seem eager on ruining itself with massive wars to create a vacuum of military power. What's more, the US was actually more experienced than people give it credit for and was a genuine pioneer in modern warfare - there's a lot of somewhat forgotten history behind that.
@@aymonfoxc1442their manufacturing capacity is now almost equal to rest of the world combined. Yes their economy is small compared to the world, but they'll manufacture everything
@@aymonfoxc1442 Look im not doubting neither anyone should doubt that the U.S has the most powerful military in the world. But to what extent does the u.s have the combat experience to take on near peer opponents? The U.S spent most of its time fighting insurgencies for the past 2 decades to what extent does that matter in a near peer conflict ? To what extent past combat experience matters in this case? Im not sure
Proof smart, valuable content CAN get a following. Thank you for helping me understand whats happening, with humor and clarity. I recommend you to all my friends who want to learn more about the world. Congrats on 500k, and here’s to 500k more.
A very good summary but I also think you missed a very important piece of the puzzle in this video and that is UAV and other various unmanned platforms that are playing a ever more important role in modern warfare. China is the world’s largest producer of drones and is also investing heavily in automation and robotics in its civilian economy. It will be interesting to see the effect all of that has on the military.
yes, china's civilian robotics sector is going to be as impactful as the US commerical auto and aerospace industry during WW2. Unlike most military hardware today, drones are one of the few things that can be produced in vast numbers relatively quickly.
Drones' most crucial drawback is that they are extremely vulnerable to electronic jamming. Unlike Russia, Ukraine, or some random MENA countries which doesn't have much capacity to produce electronics, PLA's OPFOR is US, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, which all have capacities to produce chips en masse. This makes drone capacities less important at the strategic level.
@@vorsichtig1235 china is also alot better at building drones than Russia. Particularly drones with image recognition AI that allow them to autonamously track and engage targets once locked on. You will need hard kill directed energy weapons to even stand a chance and so far I don't see the US or anyone rolling around with anti-drone lasers at a platoon level.
@@vorsichtig1235 also drones being used strategically aren't the innovation. Large high altitude drones have been around since the late 80s. Its tactical drones that are the killer. Particularly loitering munitions which would be about as hard to jam as a missile.
Funnily enough the "Peace Disease (平和病)" idea is something similar to what the Japanese have albeit a bit ruder "Peace Stupidity (平和ボケ)." Basically a prolonged period of peace degrades emergency readiness not only in the military, but on all of society. Ironically this actually becomes a seed for future conflicts. I guess the western equivalent is "weak men makes hard times, etc."
@kti5682 don't be low IQ. It means that peace and prosperity leads to people getting comfortable and with low alertness. This never lasts and war and tough times inevitably break for reasons that vary. We're going back to the hard times.
@@kti5682 You're taking an unnecessarily confrontational and naive approach to this issue. If you're looking to create a simplistic binary outcome soundbite, then sure it's the norm. But the norm isn't necessarily the ideal. I wouldn't even want to say that it's a necessary evil, but it is usually effectively treated as such. Unfortunately, the most direct path to ensuring no family ever has to deal with loss or trauma from wartime casualties is to wave the Gene Roddenberry magic wand and make all humans default to rational discourse instead of waving their primate d!cks around as we compete for resources we perceive we need to have at someone else's cost. Barring this impossible pacification of human instincts, then yes, loss and trauma are going to be the norm for someone somewhere out there on this benighted planet. So the question becomes one of minimization and mitigation, rather than absolute prevention. Just like every other complex, multi-faceted, frequently interconnected problem we face -- famine, climate change, geopolitical instability, resource/wealth/technology inequality. I've worked in social services and dealt with non-military PTSD. It's nothing any individual wants for themselves or their loved ones. However, at a macro or strategic level, every nation that has survived competition and conflict has had to choose some degree of human cost in order to field military forces. You can mitigate the impact on your citizens who serve as soldiers, but thus far you can never prevent 100% of the human cost. Influencing societal opinion can have a huge impact -- look at the treatment of WW 2 veterans versus Korean War veterans versus Vietnam War veterans versus Iraq/Afghanistan veterans. I might argue that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were far less virtuous or necessary than WW 2 or Korea and maybe even than Vietnam, but Iraq/Afghanistan veterans were treated far better than WW 2, Korea, or Vietnam by both the government and society. For all that veterans often have a (sometimes deservedly) low opinion of the VA, we HAVE a VA. China doesn't. Myanmar doesn't. Ethiopia doesn't. Yemen doesn't. For that matter, medieval knights didn't have a VA or social support structure either. Most modern people don't realize this, but a lot of the material that contributed to the chivalric code or ideals was actually focused on normalizing grief and trauma, and reintegrating men who had fought and killed on campaign continuously for years or even decades. They spent that time entirely removed from peacetime life around nonhostile farmers, merchants, and other fellow villagers or townsfolk. Works like the Song of Roland helped to normalize the idea that it was acceptable for a man to weep and lament the loss of his friends and comrades in arms. The chivalric notion of protecting the weak, women and children, was partly an admonishment that you can't solve every peacetime problem by killing the people causing the problem. Someone stole your cart or cow? Butcher cheated you on weights? You need to seek recourse through civil and legal means. Cultivate the arts, like poetry, music, and dance to steer the mind away from dark places and rediscover joy and value in life and other people. I'm not as deeply acquainted with other military cultures, but Miyamoto Musashi's writings make him sound like a troubled man, a psychopath, an eccentric, and ultimately someone who had to make peace with his deeds and killings in life. Sounds like the norm. People who don't understand conflict, violence, killing, and the consequences for the survivors, these people will alternate between absolutes out of ignorance -- they'll either wholly glorify or villify the soldier, the warrior, the survivor. But real people aren't one-dimensional villains or heroes. This very closely resembles modern soldiers' accounts in the past century of how they had to resist reflexive urges to lash out and destroy people who aggravated them -- an insufferable driving instructor, a nosy neighbor, a girlfriend who wouldn't shut up about her (seemingly trivial to the veteran soldier author) daily problems. So the answer to your rhetorical question is actually yes, it has been the norm for all of organized human civilization and armed conflict. How will we strive to be better in dealing with it now and in the future, than in the past?
As of last year all land-based fighter & bomber component of PLANAF has been transferred to PLAAF. Tactical fleet wise it seems that they are moving steadily towards a carrier-borne force.
@donderstorm1845 It gets a little better when you realise that the first "Army" is the word 军, which while it does translate to Army, in modern use is also synonymous with "Armed Force". So the PLANAF is probably closer described as the People's Liberation Armed Forces Navy Air Group
47:47. The US projections for future chinese SSN and SSBN ships is likely a massive lowball since the report was done before the significant (essentially 4x the floor space) upgrade of the Dalian shipyard (the one responsible for the nuclear submarines). PLA watchers with a history of being mostly correct have estimated from 2025 onwards, a conservative figure of 2 new nuclear submarines per year is expected to be built in that shipyard.
The assessment of Type-95 nuclear submarines to be on par with Akula class is also inaccurate. Type-93B already have pump-jet propulsion, this feature alone is better than every Russian nuclear subs in service, and puts it right below the current most advanced US class; the Virginia class. So more accurate assessment would put the Type-95 to be very close to the capabilities of the Virginia or Seawolf class submarines.
Before we judge the number of submarines as inadequate, we first need to assess the current PLA strategy. China still has a mainly defensive strategy. The latest type 39 and the latest drone subs is going to be more important today. The type 95 is probably a lower priority as they are not critical for defense. Combined with an overwhelming number of anti-sub ships, I don't see China having a disadvantage. China only needs to secure its position in the region. And if need be, destroys Japan and South Korea's infrastructure and defense, while blockading the region. With modern IAD, I don't see tomahawks as being very effective if the success rate of the storm shadow is any indication. And this is against antiqued soviet systems.
I'm curious to see how china's plans hold up under the economic struggles they are facing. Upgrades of that magnitude are planned way in advance and certainly didn't account for the current situation.
40:16 I just want to point out that 076 is less like a successor to the 075 and more like a light escort carrier. It lacks a dock and will be grouped into a carrier fleet to handle the unmanned aspect of the air wing. For now, we know that GJ-11 will definitely be on 076, but an AWACS like drone that uses a shorter band radar to scan for sea-skimming threats is highly likely to be there as well. Above are just third-hand information passed from someone who claimed to have talked to people involved in the program. They said that this was not classified.
What helped me the most to understand China's perspective is physically rotating a map to put the Pacific Ocean at the top, and seeing how the first island chain looks from that angle.
@@cubefreak123 When someone spends a lot of time looking at maps (for example... 2279 hours of Hearts of Iron....), it can be easy to become "comfortable" with the status quo. By viewing maps from another angle, your brain is forced to reevaluate basic assumptions.
@@Scottagram I understand that, and thank you for the explanation regardless. What I mean is what you meant regarding the angle of the first island chain?
Congratulations on the 500k subscriber mark (and I suspect it will only continue to grow), and thank you for the incredible, thought-provoking and often sobering content you present each week. 🖖
@@Cosantoir😂 “Like Aussie man reviews but the opposite” is just about the funniest and most accurate way I’ve heard this channel described. @Perun should put it in his channel header
To produce a high-end video - regarding the quality of information - about a military topic is one thing and deserves respect. Producing videos of that sort on a weekly basis is simply mindboggling. Especially if one considers that your videos are nothing more than a simple PowerPoint presentation. I wish I would be looking forward to the presentations I have to regularly endure at my workplace as much as I'm looking forward to your weekly content. Chapeau, mate.👏👏👏🍻
Congrats for 500 K like me. You deserve more and it shall come. PLA analysis is as always deep study and analysis and great presentation with tong in cheek comments. Thanks 🎉❤
Another excellent presentation, congrats on 500K. China has a way to go but expect the unexpected. I liked your comment "State of constant flux" which can degrade operational effectiveness because personnel have not been trained appropriately. It is like civil life where the Board of a company introduce, mainly computer systems and working practices, but the training and rationale are not done and then a new system is forced through just as the employees were making the previous ones work. It is good that the Chinese military question their shortcomings or their perceived shortcomings but Chinese Society (Like the West) are guilty of "cutting down the highest grass", the competent in effect are cut down because they make valid points which upset the status quo.
Wee note on the Type 45, that gym space is getting missiles in it. Additional CAMM silos will be going there very soon to bring its total missile load to 80 (including the 8x anti-ship)
Outstanding. As it is every damn week since your very first episode. Congratulations on achieving a monumental subscriber count. Here’s to the next five hundred thousand.
I think what is often not highlighted is China's unrivaled industrial base, for example producing more than half of all of the entire world's steel. In a real war of attrition its capability to continue the fight seems just utterly unmatched.
@@evrythingis1 as early as 2017 China's hunger rate was 2.5%. China produces more than 10,000,000 GWh per year, which is around 4x more than Japan and India -combined-, more than half of all of Asia. And in terms of renewables, at the end of 2020, China's total installed photovoltaic capacity was 253 GW, accounting for one-third of the WORLD's total installed photovoltaic capacity (760.4 GW).
@@kylethompson1379 That's great propaganda, +100 to your social credit score from daddy Xi. What would China do without American wheat and soy, and Saudi oil? I don't know why I both to reply to you CCP shills. You'll never see an actual American make a pro Chinese comment ever. It makes it really easy to spot the 50 cent party wumao. 50 million Chinese a year would die from starvation alone if the CCP started a war.
Congratz on 500k! I would love to hear your opinion on how Wolf Warrior diplomacy has helped and hindered Chinas ability to influence the SPA, and how the demographic change might affect future military readiness within China as a whole!
Hi perun, I heard the interview with soldier X on Willy OMA yesterday (your name fell in it). It gave me an idea for a video: how does military material aid volume translate in effectiveness on the battlefield in Ukraine. Thank you for the awesome content.
Re: Alliances. Comparing the US to Japan, Germany and Italy would give the power to the Axis, as we saw, that didn't work out on the Battlefield. Would the PLAN size not increase exponentially under war time conditions? Similar to how the USN increased massively during WW2.
I think you might be extending the analogy a bit far, the US in WW2 was strategically isolated and could freely build ships without harassment, and was largely not reliant on global supply chains. Modern China, while it has huge shipbuilding capacity, doesn't have those same luxuries and would likely see its MIC infrastructure and trade traffic battered constantly by US long range fires and submarines.
China has to hold together long enough to get to a full war footing, while the US Navy can starve out their oil supplies in a matter of weeks--and the Chinese get huge amounts of food calories imported by sea.
Also false. You wouldn't attack the Chinese mainland, I guarantee you that. You guys didn't do it during the Korean and Vietnam wars, you won't do it here. Btw, China can also hit your shipyards as well as well as your air bases and shipyards in the Pacific. Once they are taken out, you guys gotta travel thousands of miles to reach China.
Great video as always, but I was a little sad to see you skip the little historical background section for this one. Obviously with China it's a lot of ground to cover but I really enjoy those segments. Congrats on an extremely deserved 500k anyways!
The level of research and effort you put into this channel is extraordinary. It’s why your channel continues to grow Perun. And why we continue to watch 2 years on from the 2022 invasion.
Congrats on 500k Perun! I'm travelling at the moment and got food poising so have been stuck in my hotel room, this vid was a great recovery treat and seeing 500k was an awesome bit of good news to celebrate! Keep 'em coming.
我们又来了！ 经济和物流大师的顶级见解。😂 Thanks yet again @perunau for class info on yet another very actual topic. Awesome work mate, and many congratulations on reaching half a million! Earned by hard work and willpower! Tip my hat for you my good sir. ^^
Everyone is going on about how surprised they are about 500k subscribers - I’m not. What we have here is internet treassure. What this channel reliably brings to the table is an expert in a relevant field that he is passionate about sharing his insights with the world. And while the subject matter may be a bit dry it is certainly not uninteresting. And yes, the pressentation may be powerpoint and somewhat on the lengthy side, but who cares when it is delivered with charm and a nerdy enthusiasm - I for one find them truly irresistable and they are perfect for doing chores around the house. Seriously - this is the kind of thing that makes the internet worthwide, and 500k is if anything undersubscribed. I wish that there were more experts in their field who were sharing their knowledge on the internet like this. I’m sure the world would be better and certainly more educated for it. So thank you Perun. You are doing great and there is no need to be so humble about it.
"unless it's an exception like the m2 Browning which will probably find itself stashed in an arms locker somewhere when humanity sends the first people to another planet" -perun 2024 😂😂😂 I love your little embedded jokes
I couldnt watch my powerpoint on sunday as i normally do, so I am finally catching up on Monday night, thankfully the powerpoints of the work day do not spoil my appetite. Cheers Perun!
A huge caveat needs to be put with regards to military experience. Russia before 2022 is arguably one of the most experienced major military power in the world. With their actions in Syria. BUT, in Ukraine the experience is not necessarily relevant, because TYPES of experience matters. Sure the US and allies have experience, BUT they are from fighting countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. The US does NOT have living institutional experience in fighting a peer competitor either.
@@yuapanda Is that really the case? When was the last time the US fought under conditions where they were challenged in the air? 1945. It's well and good that US infantry has experience in shooting their rifles under duress, but have they done it under constant artillery shelling and enemy air strikes? In that sense, the current Ukraine and Russian military is actually more experienced, So are you saying they can easily defeat the US in another war? War experience has been used as a "catch-all" argument for many, often without looking at the small details, and it's disappointing how this hour long video didn't mention this.
That is a valid point and perhaps something to be brought up in more detail in a future video. I think Perun's point about combat experience still stands overall, but the gap between China and the US in peer or near-peer conflict might be narrower than it might seem.
@@obsidianstatuethe analogy I have in mind is if two parties trained in martial arts, but only one ever did practice sparring. In a real fight the one with sparring experience would probably have an advantage. It may not be a killer advantage, but it's one of those I'll-take-any-advantage situations
@@obsidianstatue But there is a reason that the U.S. and its allies have achieved air supremacy in post Cold War conflicts against inferior air forces/air defense networks. It’s much more than superior firepower. Effective superior firepower is the result of an exceptionally complex system. The U.S. and its allies have experience coordinating their air power that potential adversaries haven’t. Just because USAF and USN makes it look easy doesn’t mean it is.
Hey, Perun! I have a thought. A lot of people seem to dismiss the North Koreans as having just a bunch of old junk, and not really being a threat at all. Something tells me there may be more to it. A video on North Korea would be very cool!
The biggest threat North Korea poses is economics. We all saw how the global financial system collapsed due to lazy Greeks in an irrelevant country defaulting on their loans. Now imagine South Korea who is massive on the world stage yet most of their economic power comes from the few members of the Chaebol who are mostly based in Seoul which is well within NK artillery range. Not to mention the force America has in SK is really a token force with their needed to be a massive deployment from Okinawa and by then the damage would be done
Congrats on the 500K subs. One thing I find lacking in this video and that may be that it is just not in the scope of the video. I still can't help but wonder what is China's goal? You touch on the topic in the intro, when speaking to the economics of this military build up. China is building a navy to defend itself and to project power against it's greatest economic allies. This build up has only pushed their allies away, and the distance between them will only increase in the coming years. China is not going to use its navy and military to strengthen its relationship with the US, the EU and its other Asian partners. China wants to overturn the apple cart, and in so destroy those relationships. So what is the point? Does the Chinese strategy and goals have any end point? As far as I can see, and perhaps I am missing something here, is that once this war with China and the US comes to an end, Chinas reaps no benefit no matter how it turns out. China has put itself in a position that it can't win. Reunification can only be a pyrrhic victory. I guess I am taking a very long winded way of asking, Why is China building a military to destroy the very economic system that has benifitted them the most? I am not able to resolve this question, if you reunify none of your current partners can embrace you, or see you as anything other than a threat.
chinese defense buildups are a domestic ploy every bit as much a foreign policy one. It bolsters the national pride of the population and adds a degree of legitimacy to the party. It also gives china a degree of soft power in that it can't be ignored on the global stage anymore. Whether it intends to actually use its military is another question. Unlike the US, china tends to reserve military action as the absolute last option.
28:29 An M2 used in a space colony? If WH40k is to be believed, the M2 will serve even in the far, distant future where there is only war, serving humanity under the umbrella term of Heavy Stubber!
Hellooo - congrats on reaching 500k subscribers. Have been here since all bling no basics, listening to you every week! Pls do keep up the excellent work!
I got a good accounting of the 1979 "war" in which the PLA was nearly slaughtered by farmers with rusty disfunctional semi rifles. I've told that story a couple times. It is a good example of what having a 'living heritage of combat experience' can mean.
*No matter how powerful your military, if you have literally no worthwhile allies whilst your prospective enemy (The USA) has Japan, S. Korea, Phillipines, Indonesia, Vietnam and India has allies or semi-allies, your going to lose any conflict. China needs to work on its diplomacy..
You assume to much, no one really believe that South Korea would join USA in some war against China, it’s just to risky and would trigger a war with North Korea, and USA are not allies with India, and the same, no one believe that India would join a war with China because the risk is to big that Pakistan would join in… And Philippines? They have…nothing. Indonesia? They are not an American allied, not in any form of way :p Vietnam? Come in, did you just read some nations on a map and thought they would join? Vietnam are no allied and they will not join some war. Japan is a big if…Japan know they will be hit 100 times harder then USA in war, they are not dumb. So don’t assume that people will die for you, people that are neighbours to China.
Are you suggesting that the BRIC has bricked? That’s too bad. I was totally looking forward to an alternative reserve currency administered by a country with an opaque two-tiered monetary policy. 😅
The United States lost the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and ultimately failed to defeat the slipper-wearing Taliban. They don't dare to directly conflict with Iran. Do you think the United States is invincible?
@@bfc4837 Yes. The United States is invincible at this juncture of the 21st Century. No rival power can touch the mainland U.S (barring nuclear weapons and even that is suspect given how unreliable Chinese/Russian gear seems to be). The USN is magnitudes more powerful than its nearest rival, more experienced and able to project power globally. China and Russia can't do that. The United States itself is resource rich-oil, gas, coal, iron etc. China is lacking strategic resources, most critically oil, which it mostly imports by sea and is highly vulnerable to blockade. Russia is resource rich but can't leverage much of that because of its corruption and general incompetence. The U.S army is highly experienced and has fought in a variety of conflicts.The Chinese military has not fought a war since the 1970s and that was against Vietnam, which it lost. Russia can't even beat a 3rd rate power on its own doorstep and its military is structurally flawed to a hideous degree so whether it can even learn from its mistakes is an open question. Also all those conflicts you listed, they don't meet the definition of military defeats in the literal sense.The United States chose to end the Korean instead of escalate. The United States chose to end the Vietnam war. The United States chose to leave Afghanistan. Operative word being 'chose' rather than being compelled to retreat. The only thing that compels the United States Military to do anything is the civilian government and perceptions of the American public not the actions of any of its military opponents. Its important to remember that because we only see a fraction of the U.S militarys actual power as it kept on a very tight leach by a democractic society sensitive not only to the deaths of its own soldiers but also those of its enemies and civilians.
This one is a chunk! A bit heavy on numbers and acronyms for a non-mil guy like me, but quite interesting nonetheless, and i'm sure most people are here for that 😆. Congrats on the 500k!
Congratulations on the 500k I feel that its very well deserved & that this is quite the most intelligent and thoughtful channel on youtube thank you & keep on keeping on
