• Aproposnix
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    7 hours ago

    Why this prototype combat rig could help Army soldiers fight a possible war with China

    The subcaption of the video was a bit alarming. So is the US planning this as well?

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      7 hours ago

      China has been planing to reunite with Taiwan for decades, and they are clearly building a military capable of that. The US has committed to protecting Taiwan. That is the US has been planning war with china since not long after WWII. It hasn’t happened yet, it may never happen, but it is planned for and one of the more likely wars the US could get involved with.

      If your country doesn’t have a plan to go to war with every other country in the world (separately) your military leaders are incompetent. Most counties far away are very low risk and so the plans don’t have to be well thought out, but you should have at least the start of a plan. The more likely war is the better you plans should be.

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        1 hour ago

        Si vis pacem, para bellum.

        If you look weak, you’re a target. The only way to have peace is to look strong.

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        4 hours ago

        I am getting all the more confident that China will win that war. The US has been performing lousy over the past few seasons of War, and the new US management and owners instill anything but confidence in the team.

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        If your country has a plan to go to war with every other country in the world and a warmonger gets elected then one of those plans will be implemented regardless of whether its justified. See: Iraq, Iran

        The next fascist that gets elected will probably start a war with China regardless of the Taiwan situation.

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            6 hours ago

            Naw, these plans were sitting around for a long time. Trump just picked them up and ran with them, even though a lot of stuff is out-of-date. The biggest clue is the the girl’s school bombing, it was once part of an IRGC compound ten-ish years ago.

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              No he didn’t follow a plan. The plans said things like Iran would counter attack and try to close the strait. Trump and his team didn’t even look at the plans. They went with Netanyahu’s suggestion

              The biggest clue to that bombing is them admitting they asked AI for targets and it delivered outdated info

              https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare

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                5 hours ago

                Outdated info from where?

                Seems to me like it would have come from plans drawn up 10+ years ago about where to target.

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                  They didn’t even evacuate their bases in advance! They didn’t even install air defenses at them! They did nothing whatsoever to prepare! They just assumed instant success!

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                  I genuinely don’t know why you’re giving them the benefit of the doubt.

                  None of us here knows the truth, and I would posit that it’s just as likely, if not more likely, that that school was targeted intentionally, as it was used for the children of IRGC officers.

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      6 hours ago

      Obviously not true, do you think anything the US does is planned?