He had to institute a draft MONTHS into the invasion. Untrained sacks of meat, thrown into battle.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:30 am...& you were convinced Putin was too broke & weak to invade Ukraine with his rusting army & measly GDP.a fan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:15 pm Here's the thing folks don't get, but I bet China's leaders do: if they invade Taiwan? Taiwan will cease to be the economic and manufacturing engine that it is, rending the invasion pointless.
It's why they haven't invaded. Pretty obvious from where I sit.
So....imho? Let it go. And do what Biden did with the BiPartisan Chips bill: make it so Taiwan isn't the powerhouse for computer chips anymore.
THAT is using our overwhelming GDP to FINALLY outsmart our opponent, instead of using arms in with the idea that weapons and war solves EVERY problem.
I was right. You and your fellow "experts" who think you don't need money to wage war were 1000% wrong. And instead of admitting that, horrors, you were wrong about something (oh no! not THAT!), you try and move the goalposts around until you're right in your own mind.
And how do you double down? After lecturing me that Putin doesn't need money to wage war? You then turn around and lecture the forum that the Ukraine war is (wait for it) costing the US military too much money. Money that we don't have.
Cool. Hypocrisy at every turn.
If the US got into this directly in a conventional war, we'd wipe Putin out in a matter of weeks. Putin can't beat Ukraine, which is like the Little Brother of the Poor Grammar school losing to Hopkins in
We (and you) played this same game with "we HAVE to have Middle East oil". Nope. We don't.
The solution to every problem for you is war. Makes sense, since that's how you were trained to think.
As for my business, like every factory manager who isn't an idiot, I have backups for all critical parts (including chipped components like our burner control system for our boiler) sitting on a shelf, gathering dust. They've been there since we opened our current building 10 years ago. If other business, and especially Fortune 500 companies with billions to burn, don't do that? Blame them, not Taiwan.
It's simple: if we can't get chips from Taiwan, the free market adapts. You will NEVER understand that, and you want the military to intercede any time the free market is threatened. You're a liberal. It's really that simple.
Taiwan shuts down? American plants will pop up. Simple. It's already happening, and naturally, you want to throw stones because Biden has a D by his name. If Trump did this? You'd be on here telling us how cool the Chips Act is.