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Yeah I think US should send troops, build a base, and annex Hong Kong.
by devoply 7y ago
Yeah I think US should send troops, build a base, and annex Hong Kong.
- Marsymars 7y agoI expect the PRC would treat that similarly as the US attempting to annex Shanghai, or any other major city in China.
- devoply 7y agoLet them, let's see what they will do. I wonder who would win such a conventional war. Though I guess afterwards there would be no Hong Kong left protecting.
- meowface 7y agoSetting up the pre-conditions for World War III sounds like a fantastic idea.
- praptak 7y agoWho says it stays conventional?
- PKop 7y agoWhat does winning look like? Certainly both would lose many lives. Why would any American want to die for this crisis? Why would you imagine China would give up or be unable to defend territory so near their mainland?
- ivalm 7y agoChina has enough nukes for this to be a moot point. The outcome would be the same as if China decided to annex Hawaii -- an all out war with nuclear and other WMD.
- avip 7y agoWW III - the missing CC mitigation plan in project drawdown.
- roenxi 7y ago> I wonder who would win such a conventional war. In a defensive war, probably China. They've got more tanks, more people, more manufacturing capabilities, lots of artillery and no doubt they've spent years preparing themselves militarily for such an event.
- PKop 7y agoI imagine you won't be signing up to fight in this war you envision others fighting? Maybe you should be sent, or perhaps your son?
- devoply 7y agoWith the sort of salaries US pays troops you could easily have a million mercs lined up from all sorts of different countries by Thursday next week.
- PKop 7y agoTo do what exactly?
- devoply 7y agoLiberate Hong Kong.
- PKop 7y agoHow would sending ground troops into Hong Kong, or China accomplish anything but getting a lot of people killed?
- throwaway8879 7y agoI recommend you study the human history of politics and warfare, to fully understand why your comment is supremely naive.
- sametmax 7y agoYou mean like the US liberated Iraq ? EDIT: damn it, Irak (french) is spelled with a q in English.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoInnocent question why spell Iraq with a k I've never seen that before and wondering if it has special meaning outside of just a way to spell it
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> US should send troops, build a base, and annex Hong Kong No, but we should definitely subsidise defensive weapons sales to Taiwan and our other democratic allies in the region.
- remarkEon 7y agoYes, because this activity is totally invisible to China and they will not ever notice F-35s, AH-64s, and American-made Air Defense weapons just magically showing up around their borders.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> this activity is totally invisible to China Deterrence doesn’t work if done in secret. If China intervened in Hong Kong militarily, Taiwan and our allies need to be able to credibly threaten the mainland with retaliation.
- remarkEon 7y agoWhy? I don't mean to come of as hash, but that is eerily similar to how we ended up in Vietnam. What happens when Taiwan (or whoever you think these other allies are ... Japan and South Korea, presumably) gets run over by a numerically superior - by an order of magnitude - Chinese Army? And how does one "credibly threaten the mainland with retaliation" without nuclear weapons? Honest question.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> that is eerily similar to how we ended up in Vietnam Vietnam involved American ground troops. Upgrading a country’s standing army is different. (Tactical note. China has a huge army. It’s navy is humbler. Troop transport capacities are manageable with the right guns and logistical lines. Add to that the international waters separating Taiwan and China, and an invasion can be rendered untenable.) that is eerily similar to how we ended up in Vietnam> how does one "credibly threaten the mainland with retaliation" without nuclear weapons? Non-nuclear ballistic missiles. Cruise missiles. Mines. Stealth bombers.
- dasil003 7y agoWhy not Russia? They’re closer and they love annexing stuff.