China could sink all US carriers in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns
China could sink all US carriers in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warns China’s hypersonic missiles could destroy all US aircraft carriers in 20 minutes.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61389483
Rule 1. When you're having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.
Also, a foreign threat tends to gather the citizens together. Our post-9/11 unity allowed them to create the Homeland Security Gestapo.
common fascist tactic.
Also a common liberal tactic.
who says the enemy has to be foreign?
The enemy is both weak and strong.
anyway, 30 billion more for Israel
This is both believable, and actually makes me feel safer about world security
Apparently the crucial moment for the US to attack was a few year ago, when they still had naval superiority. They missed their window luckily for us. Thanks to the PRC the US doesn't get to use SE Asia and Europe as their cannon fodder.
Lol sounds like he's doing a great job in his role checks notes in charge of US defense.
The only thing this pentagon chief can sink in 20 minutes is a fifth of whiskey
That’s too modest of an amount
It’s not like China has to lift a finger, the US government is doing a fine job of destroying the country.
I hope that's true, but this is a common refrain with various adversaries used as the boogie-man.
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-117-the-always-lagging-us-war-machine
The scam goes something like this: A weapons contractor and military-funded think tank publishes a supposedly neutral "report" or a handful "U.S. officials" run to a media outlet insisting the United States is "lagging behind" in a sector that incidentally coincides with said think tank's funders or government entity's interests. Credulous American media mindlessly repeats the claims, everyone acts panicked, treating the warning like a work of good faith, sober and objective analysis. Congress then reacts and uses media coverage to rationalize even more contracts to the very funders of the think tank that raised the warning, further bloating the Pentagon, State Department and CIA budgets. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, all the while portraying the U.S.'s gargantuan defense expenditures as paltry and insufficient.
US can't even beat Ansarallah
I remember how they bragged that the operation against Yemen was the biggest naval operation since WW2.
And they lost that, against country having no navy and no airforce.
Good.
Lots of comments that "this is a false distraction to justify war on Panama". War on Panama is about interdicting Chinese commerce with Brazil and other countries south of US. Including FDI in Panama to boost its cross ocean trade volume through a railway.
This is more of a classified leak exposing US weakness and impotence. This does compromise stupid people's faith in US protections across the world, and their rulers corrupt submission to US under propaganda of US protection.
Someone got fired for unauthorized leak today. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-850238
Good thing we’re busy terrorizing our own populace!
inshallah
Article's gone. Here's the archive: https://archive.is/WDDOa
...and the US could make a China shaped nuclear crater to the west of Taiwan. Then everyone clapped.
"Bro, what if...."
Could they though? You think China would just sit around and let the U.S fire nuclear missiles at them without intercepting them and firing their own? Why are you so sure that wouldn't just end up with a U.S sized crater north of Mexico?
Also, dismissing any predictive situation as some crazy out there "what if" is hilarious.
War games are an extremely important part of any strategy so that you don't just walk right into an easily predictable slaughter because you "don't care about what ifs".