Die USA werden als Zeichen ihrer Stärke gegenüber China fünf Flugzeugträger im Westpazifik stationieren
by giuliomagnifico
Die USA werden als Zeichen ihrer Stärke gegenüber China fünf Flugzeugträger im Westpazifik stationieren
by giuliomagnifico
26 comments
This some cold war shit. Still works?
That would mean the world’s second largest air fleet?
I’m not sure China actually is too concerned. Surely their strategy is to just launch dozens of anti-ship ballistic missiles at each carrier. A barrage of these missiles would be practically impossible to intercept.
To the down voters, I’m not wrong. We need to prepare for the fact that surface warfare against a near peer competitor is quickly becoming obsolete. There’s no way for a carrier strike group to hide and anti-ship weapons are far easier to build and use than anti-ship weapon defenses.
There’s gonna be some sore hookers after this…
Doesn’t China already know we have a lot of aircraft carriers tho?
That’s about 1/4th of all aircraft carriers in global existence
Is this the security threat that they were talking about earlier? Invasion of South Korea perhaps?
What are we expecting? Five carrier groups is overkill for just a “show of strength.”
That sounds like a military buildup to me. If we saw another nation doing the same it could escalate things. Dont know if this is a necessary move or an unnecessary provocation.
There’s still at least 6 left in case we need them.
That sounds way more than a flex. Is something about to go down?
What a waste of money and resources.
I’m almost positive the South China Morning Post is a Chinese propaganda news paper is there another sore that can confirm this?
Do they know something we don’t or is this really a preemptive show of force?
Yeah, right, it’s just “a show of strength”. /s
The article title makes it seem worse than it is. From what I could read before the paywall cut me off was that the US is likely to have 5 carriers operate in the area over the course of the year, not all at once as the title seems to imply. This doesn’t appear to be anything out of the ordinary.
The Biden Doctrine in a nutshell: the U.S. is not f-ing around.
This is good strategy against China because most westerners overlook the real danger of conflict over Taiwan: Chinese culture does not permit “mistakes”. Xi is dumb – arguably the dumbest major world leader since Trump was booted. Xi could easily stumble into war and not be able to extricate China, no matter how badly China might lose that war.
There is an aspect of Chinese culture that is generally termed “saving face” by those aware of it in the west. It consists of accidentally making a mistake – and then continuing to make the mistake over and over again until a way can be found to “save face” and stop making the mistake.
Why did China continue the Covid lockdowns for almost a full year beyond what was even remotely necessary to control Covid? China locked down literally millions of people, facing a very real prospect of mass revolt and even revolution – for virtually no gain whatsoever. Even after western countries had shown that Covid could be controlled through low tech means (masks and vaccines). But China persevered down the path of folly for 12 months.
Chinese culture explains it. Xi simply made a mistake with China’s Covid response, but he couldn’t just end it – he had to keep making the same mistake over and over again until he could find a way to “save face” and stop it. That took a full year.
Biden is raising the cost of China making a mistake and stumbling into war with Taiwan. A show of force makes an accidental war much less likely and it allows Xi a way to save face if he has been pushing for war behind the scenes with his own military leadership. Very good strategy for dealing with China.
Oof. The power of 5 combined carrier groups is mind boggling. They could invade, conquer, or destroy probably 95% of the countries in the world. Maybe 98%. Few people truly understand the power that *one* carrier can project, but **five carriers**? You best come correct and get the fuck out of their way, because this is the quintessential definition of, “fuck around and find out.”
What the fuck is happening. This is a huge escalation isn’t it? One aircraft carrier could knock off most countries in the world…
HypOps did a great video on this: https://youtu.be/vJXWJ-Px5tU?si=6cZsCt4TNUDv8OE7
Is that really necessary?
Yet we still buy all our shit from China! We are the biggest suckers in the world. They’re our enemies but make most things for this country. Ugh…
In the age of drones it’s like 5 big fat targets.
our air craft carriers have a Starbucks. Their air craft carriers don’t have shit
Waving that big stick
US is about to hang dong in the Pacific in show of strength.