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While it’s unclear what lessons Chinese military planners are learning from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they learned to “go big and go early” from America’s quick victory in the first Gulf War, a panel of defense analysts agreed Thursday.
It’s a strategy the Chinese could use against Taiwan.
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said if the Chinese don’t win early on they’ll see their cross-strait invasion become “very messy, very quickly.” He added it would “become a slog,” as the Russian drive on Kyiv became. Later, Clark added he didn’t expect China to have the same “nuts and bolts failures” that the Russians have experienced in logistics and command in Ukraine.
Matthew Costlow, a senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy, said a key to the defense of Taiwan and deterring Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific is denying Beijing’s “hopes of … an easy asymmetric victory.” Critical to doing that is Guam, a U.S. territory, and America’s allies and partners.
China has seen how European allies and partners have rallied to Ukraine’s support in sending military and humanitarian aid and “the international backlash” imposed on the Kremlin following the invasion. The backlash included harsher and more targeted sanctions against Russian financial and political elites since Moscow launched the unprovoked attack.
The article is nothing more than he said she said, the journalist is covering the story on what was told to him, the statement "Moscow launched the unprovoked attack" is in fact true, Russia felt the shit was getting to close to their fence and they said "We gotta do something now, and did."
Don't forget, they lined up many Military equipment close to Ukraine's border, the whole world knows that, knowing dam well what they were going to do.
Now are Russians killing women and children and raping and pillaging along their routes to destroy anything militarily? Hell no, but ask your neighbor and they will tell you it's true.
The story revolves aorund the possibilities and certainties of such an invasion the CCP will face. I am sure the Unprovoked comment was to satisfy the connections of the journalist who this person relies on for opposing intel and is sure to read the article.