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Abramowitch is on the run, sanctioned by EU he lost most of his fortune and is seeked as criminal. Israel told him he is not welcome there ...he cant go EU, cant go UK. Mkst likely escaped to Russia.

 
Fun fact: the PLA has never fought a tactically defensive war inside China's borders after 1949.
Is there something like US marines in PLA? Border conflicts are one thing, but outright invasions are different. :undecided:
 
Is there something like US marines in PLA? Border conflicts are one thing, but outright invasions are different. :undecided:
There is and it is growing. After all, you cannot just walk onto Taiwan. You have to use some sort of boats to get across the water.
 
Is there something like US marines in PLA? Border conflicts are one thing, but outright invasions are different. :undecided:

You mean like half of Taiwanese territory in 1950? It used to be Taiwan and Hainan, after March 1950 it's just Taiwan.

Hainan was separated from mainland by 30 miles of water.

How about Korean War?

PLA has Marines but they're not a "second army", they're actually specialized for amphibious assault and island operations.

The main doctrine of Chinese troops is strategic defense, tactical offense. Stop the enemy before they reach Chinese borders by attacking first and holding their territory as a buffer. Did that in 1950, 1962, 1979...
 
Abramowitch is on the run, sanctioned by EU he lost most of his fortune and is seeked as criminal. Israel told him he is not welcome there ...he cant go EU, cant go UK. Mkst likely escaped to Russia.

Thank you, westliche Herrenmenschen. Danke, Danke, sagt Russland. Endlich!

The Russian "Propaganda" is saying this the whole time: The west will rob everyone at the first opportunity. And now the anglo saxon controlled west is doing exactly this. Lol.:crazy:

And the most ridiculous part is: They are really thinking, they are super duper smart. But the reality is: They are consolidating the russian elites. This pro western stupidity started with Chrustchev and the retard Gorbatchev was the culmination.
 
Thank you, westliche Herrenmenschen. Danke, Danke, sagt Russland. Endlich!

The Russian "Propaganda" is saying this the whole time: The west will rob everyone at the first opportunity. And now the anglo saxon controlled west is doing exactly this. Lol.:crazy:

And the most ridiculous part is: They are really thinking, they are super duper smart. But the reality is: They are consolidating the russian elites. This pro western stupidity started with Chrustchev and the retard Gorbatchev was the culmination.

Um nope, we just confiscate property from criminals.

Putin wants to cut all ties with Europe, why should his goons then enjoy europe? Pedro Sanches, president of Spain said it very well. Russian oligarchs can from now on sail on the Barrent Sea. The Med is closed for them.
 
Yes, the US is better at invasion. Especially in handling logistics for their armed forces even in landlocked countries without easy access. But I don't consider that as best for world peace :laugh:
The US by way of nature pretty much have no choice but to create an expeditionary military. By 'nature' I mean the two oceans, then not likely Canada and Mexico will be hostiles. Of course, the US can simply exists with state national guards, but if the US is to protect our allies, then the standing army will have to be designed to be expeditionary.

Do you expect the Chinese to do better than what Russians have accomplished in Ukraine? I don't know if the Chinese military is set up for expeditions :unsure:
No and no. The implication here is Taiwan, which is the equivalent of Ukraine to Russia, but the critical difference is water vs land. The PLA will have much greater vulnerabilities in strait crossing than the Russian Army running on land to Ukraine, and the PLA knows it. The difference is great enough that the PLA pretty much dismissed using the Russian Army as example of an invasion for Taiwan, instead, the PLA is looking at the occupation parts, particularly the current difficulties the Russians are facing.

Using D-Day for example, the invasion of Taiwan is estimated to be greater than D-Day in terms of resources.

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To be truly expeditionary, the PLA would have to successfully (1) invade Taiwan, (2) occupy, and (3) pacify if necessary, of the Taiwanese. Just merely building ships capable of transporting troops will not be enough to create the perception that the PLA is expeditionary capable. The extreme example is Desert Storm. Historically, expeditionary armies lived off the land. The US did not. We shipped everything we needed transhemispherically. No one else done that since. Does the PLA need to replicate that extreme? Not really. But if the PLA cannot militarily defeat Taiwan with those three conditions, the perception that the PLA is expeditionary to US level will not be there.

There is no denying that Taiwan is critical for China in general and to the PLA in particular and I believe that Xi motivated Poutine, compounded by the poor advice from their generals, to invade Ukraine. Xi needed to know what China WILL encounter and to what degrees, and sacrificed Ukraine for that.
 
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