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The combined forces of Russia, China, NK and Iran could probably muster a fight. Not sure how likely that WW3 scenario would unfold, though.

dsabanin 5y ago
China is interested in weak Russia so that they can take its territory. They only support Russian aggression against Ukraine to benefit from the Russian isolation economically, wound Russian army, economy, and slowly digest it. Even when Soviet Union existed, they were on bad terms with Chinese Communist Party. Even Chinese hate Russian nazis. Edit: Out of ~90 something joint non-binding agreements between China and Russia, only 4 were actually acted upon by Chinese government. Digestion of the economy already started, among other things Russia has joined Union Pay, Chinese payment processor.
bpodgursky 5y ago
This isn't the Avengers, there's no reason for Iran or NK to get involved in that fight. (they have no ability to project force abroad anyway)
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treis 5y ago
Not a chance. NATO would control the skies day 1 and that would end any offensive hopes for non-NATO side.
- whimsicalism 5y ago
  NATO could not easily control the skies of China, such a suggestion is absurd. they likewise could probably not do the same with Russia.
newuser94303 5y ago
Despite claims from the US military industrial complex looking for more money, China, NK, and Iran can not do much outside their own borders. Russia is doing a poor job and it is much stronger than the other 3. Only the US maintains the ability to invade countries around the world. UK would be #2.
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- paganel 5y ago
  The UK (and France) were pretty lame in the Libya war, if I'm not mistaken they had to resort to getting help from the Americans when it came to re-fueling their planes mid-air. I'm too lazy to search for links for that, to be honest. Also seem to remember some scandal with some RAF pilots getting very shitty food at an airbase in Cyprus during the Iraq (or Afghan?) war. That one is more fuzzy for me, though, and maybe it's not even that important, as in shitty food in the military might be a fact of life. Later edit: I did search for that Cyprus thing, turns out it was more recent, from 2014, since the West was bombing ISIS [1]: > Raids against Islamic State are being conducted from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus "with broken jets and tired and fed-up people", BBC Newsnight has been told. and > In a letter, a serviceman said the base was being neglected, morale was poor and ground crews had taken to eating humanitarian rations meant for Iraqis. Having to take food from "humanitarian rations meant for Iraqis." doesn't sound ideal to me. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30338659 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30338659
adlorger 5y ago
tell me more about this hypothetical Russia+China+NK+Iran axis and why they would be so united in this particular fight?
stjohnswarts 5y ago
Why would China possibly help a madman like Putin fight a war? NK and Iran aren't much more than background noise in such a conflict.

dsabanin 5y ago

China is interested in weak Russia so that they can take its territory. They only support Russian aggression against Ukraine to benefit from the Russian isolation economically, wound Russian army, economy, and slowly digest it. Even when Soviet Union existed, they were on bad terms with Chinese Communist Party. Even Chinese hate Russian nazis. Edit: Out of ~90 something joint non-binding agreements between China and Russia, only 4 were actually acted upon by Chinese government. Digestion of the economy already started, among other things Russia has joined Union Pay, Chinese payment processor.

bpodgursky 5y ago

This isn't the Avengers, there's no reason for Iran or NK to get involved in that fight. (they have no ability to project force abroad anyway)

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treis 5y ago

Not a chance. NATO would control the skies day 1 and that would end any offensive hopes for non-NATO side.

whimsicalism 5y ago
NATO could not easily control the skies of China, such a suggestion is absurd. they likewise could probably not do the same with Russia.

newuser94303 5y ago

Despite claims from the US military industrial complex looking for more money, China, NK, and Iran can not do much outside their own borders. Russia is doing a poor job and it is much stronger than the other 3. Only the US maintains the ability to invade countries around the world. UK would be #2.

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paganel 5y ago
The UK (and France) were pretty lame in the Libya war, if I'm not mistaken they had to resort to getting help from the Americans when it came to re-fueling their planes mid-air. I'm too lazy to search for links for that, to be honest. Also seem to remember some scandal with some RAF pilots getting very shitty food at an airbase in Cyprus during the Iraq (or Afghan?) war. That one is more fuzzy for me, though, and maybe it's not even that important, as in shitty food in the military might be a fact of life. Later edit: I did search for that Cyprus thing, turns out it was more recent, from 2014, since the West was bombing ISIS [1]: > Raids against Islamic State are being conducted from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus "with broken jets and tired and fed-up people", BBC Newsnight has been told. and > In a letter, a serviceman said the base was being neglected, morale was poor and ground crews had taken to eating humanitarian rations meant for Iraqis. Having to take food from "humanitarian rations meant for Iraqis." doesn't sound ideal to me. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30338659 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30338659

adlorger 5y ago

tell me more about this hypothetical Russia+China+NK+Iran axis and why they would be so united in this particular fight?

stjohnswarts 5y ago

Why would China possibly help a madman like Putin fight a war? NK and Iran aren't much more than background noise in such a conflict.