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And you think the Americans will just let the Chinese satellites stay there?
The vulnerabilities of the decades to come exist on numerous interconnected levels. Your military presumptions wont amount to a hill of beans if any of the dominos start to fall.
Remind me, which population is used to doing with fuck all again?
Well its no longer the Chinese...
As for your assertion that the CHinese economy would suffer, that I would argue is only to the degree that Europe failed to step up and fill the investment gap with the Euro, which is by far a more stable and trusted currency year upon year.
Given the ever closer ties between the EU and China/ASEAN as a whole, it is likely the shift will occur within the foreseable future as overt US militarism places the US dollar on ever more central bank lists as a bad credit risk.
Anyway, in a China vs. America scenario, regardless of how it comes about, the first strike will give the ultimate advantage and probably grant victory. If America launches a pre-emptive first strike they could oblitarate all of China's satallites blinding them to American positions int he Pacific. They could use there own satallites to identify China's missile positions and strike at them first, they do not evn have to have their locations exact, they only need to be with in a mile radius then they could Carpet Bomb the whole area and most likely hit them all. With America's equally vast missile capabilities they could destroy the Chinese Airforce on the ground and as for a 12 million strong standing army...well...what good is a 12 million strong army if they are all killed in the first wave of bombings?
If America were to strike first, they win. If China saw it coming and struck first, they win.
Economically...the world is shifting towards China...for now...Will America allow the trend to go on though, i doubt it. What they will do to stop it though, i can only speculate.
Bunkers for the men and tanks. China has many. Also alot of it's nuke Silo's are hidden in reinforced mountains. China's main weakness is that it cannot Hit America, it is a defensive Military at the moment. Their main advantage is that they can stop exporting to the US, causing majour problems. Hence, why a war is unlikley to take place. Nah, it'd end in Stalemate. China has staying power, the US does too. It'd be like Korea, unresolved. However, the US could crush North Korea in seconds today. They should, that'd actually be of benefit, unlike Iraq. The US has no option. It wants stuff cheap, it has to be produced somewhere with little or no regulation over working, or somewhere where life is cheap. Hence, China, where yes, they are paid naff all a day, but you CAN afford to live off it, because STUFF is just cheap there.
As for listening to Rommel, well, he lost in North Africa despite having the single most effective and well trained force Germany had prepared in the Afrika Corp. He built the German defences, that is true, BUT he didnt expect the Allied invasion to come when it did, or where it did and went home for the weekend and missed out on most of it.
He could have helped rebuilding Germany post-war, but so long as he was fighting the British, he was never going to be a winner.
Aye, but Rommel said the invasion would be at Normandy, he was right. As for the Afrika Corp... well... there was a resource shortage an all, and he was using alot of stolen tanks because of this. The thing is, at end of the day, Germany way overstretched itself.
Aye, as above. Germany took on the world too soon. But if they didn't, Stalin would have had an army by the time they did. Tad of a no-win situation. He could have easily taken if Europe alone, but he was too greedy.
Of course the point is mute as Japan attacked america bringing them into the war.
It was more heavily defended than Stalingrad. Because Stalin had his ass covered. Also, they wanted to go through Stalingrad to Moscow, to take ALL the land. The flaw was the Russian Winter, and that by this time, the Soviets had some good Tech coming into proper action, the T-34, Katyusha, and the Il-2 was claiming huge kills.
To take Stalingrad was a decision made by Hitler despite EVERY single one of his generals telling him to avoid it and go around it, take Moscow which would fall easily, secure the oil feilds in the Caucuses and then once Russia was taken swing south and meet up with the Afrika on their victory. It failed because Hitler was obsessed with Stalingrad.