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From what I understand, using Ericcson(european) instead would delay it by around a year and £4B. It is guaranteed the CCP will wage information warfare agains

From what I understand, using Ericcson(european) instead would delay it by around a year and £4B. It is guaranteed the CCP will wage information warfare against the UK in the future. If there's a global war, China is the most powerful country based on current politics that will be the UK's adversary. Ability to limit or interfere with public communicarion infrasructure is an invaluable war-time advantage. For those that say this is just edge gear, I say that makes it even worse. Redundancy and access control is easier at the core than at the edge which lives in the field and direcrly interfaces with possibly hostile end devices. Even just a dumb antenna can be built in a way that makes it easier tl cripple or help with jamming/DOS.

mark_l_watson 7y ago
Thanks, you triggered an interesting thought: is the U.K. really likely to be an adversary of China? Based on reading James Rickard’s Aftermath and also Gaft Luft’s and Anne Klein’s De-Dollarization, I can list out how different the UK’s and the USA’s situations are re: China: China and Russia (with many smaller countries who are growing more resentful of the advantage we get having the dollar as the world reserve currency) are actively trying to undermine the dollar (let’s hope they fail, or that it takes a long time!) but they probably view the U.K. as a trading partner and as much as possible be cordial with. England is done with being the world mono polar superpower so they don’t show up strategically as a real adversary. For financial and ego reasons, the USA is trying to hold on to its status (although by over using tariffs and sanctions, we are being incredibly clumsy - we need to get our act together!)
- badrabbit 7y ago
  UK is the US's closest ally,it will likely be something about taiwan,HK or elswhere outside mainland. And it will probably slowly escalate if I had to guess to where in one shape or form China attacks SK ,US military bases,hawaii or western US as a retaliation ,after which the UK will be presurred to join ,except the public would be divided and that's when comms will have issues: is it US or China hacking brits? China does not care for the west as a trading partner much more than as a stepping stone to reach elsewhere. The west uses economic advantages to arm twist domestic Chinese policy. If they have their grip on Africa, Asia and S. America who cares about the fading west? And the USA right now is vital for continued world peace and stability as a superpower. There many many nations that owe their geopolitical stability right now to the US being the sole super power. China has sheer volume but being maybe a third at most their population size the US dominates many things still. Technologically they're still behind in military appllications. The US woud squash China in a heartbeat in both conventional and Nuke warfare. And you have to undetstand how much SK and Japan (both important UK allies btw) are important to the US. Their loss too China will happen only after losing WW3. These are one ot many reasons why both China and Russia are working hard to dismantle the US and UK from the inside out as well as sow discord between them. UK fought with US in both Iraq and Afghanistan!!! Many brits died in America's wars already.

mark_l_watson 7y ago

Thanks, you triggered an interesting thought: is the U.K. really likely to be an adversary of China? Based on reading James Rickard’s Aftermath and also Gaft Luft’s and Anne Klein’s De-Dollarization, I can list out how different the UK’s and the USA’s situations are re: China: China and Russia (with many smaller countries who are growing more resentful of the advantage we get having the dollar as the world reserve currency) are actively trying to undermine the dollar (let’s hope they fail, or that it takes a long time!) but they probably view the U.K. as a trading partner and as much as possible be cordial with. England is done with being the world mono polar superpower so they don’t show up strategically as a real adversary. For financial and ego reasons, the USA is trying to hold on to its status (although by over using tariffs and sanctions, we are being incredibly clumsy - we need to get our act together!)

badrabbit 7y ago
UK is the US's closest ally,it will likely be something about taiwan,HK or elswhere outside mainland. And it will probably slowly escalate if I had to guess to where in one shape or form China attacks SK ,US military bases,hawaii or western US as a retaliation ,after which the UK will be presurred to join ,except the public would be divided and that's when comms will have issues: is it US or China hacking brits? China does not care for the west as a trading partner much more than as a stepping stone to reach elsewhere. The west uses economic advantages to arm twist domestic Chinese policy. If they have their grip on Africa, Asia and S. America who cares about the fading west? And the USA right now is vital for continued world peace and stability as a superpower. There many many nations that owe their geopolitical stability right now to the US being the sole super power. China has sheer volume but being maybe a third at most their population size the US dominates many things still. Technologically they're still behind in military appllications. The US woud squash China in a heartbeat in both conventional and Nuke warfare. And you have to undetstand how much SK and Japan (both important UK allies btw) are important to the US. Their loss too China will happen only after losing WW3. These are one ot many reasons why both China and Russia are working hard to dismantle the US and UK from the inside out as well as sow discord between them. UK fought with US in both Iraq and Afghanistan!!! Many brits died in America's wars already.