The UK does not have very many usable tanks, 3 soldiers leave to one civilian joining up, and the Royal Navy is in the same state. As for the RAF, there aren't any 5 star hotels in Ukraine so they are not interested.
Combined NATO forces will have trouble with an armed Iran, China and Russia. They'll even have North Korean fodder.
We also have actual allies in direct vicinity, including South Korea and Japan.
Bonus points in their favor, China would likely bring Russia in on taking Taiwan, because it is strategically very important and would drastically weaken our long term capabilities.
This government has pushed itself into a corner, and the only fixes will take time and need to be spearheaded by someone who actually loves this country (Trump).
Well, since we end up making up the bulk of force projection across the planet even within NATO, I would be referring to the United States and by extension NATO.
With limited fabs outside of Taiwan (a grave strategic "error" [read: Intentional act]) everyone and basically every industry would start to feel the constriction, and during wartime that would prevent the military from getting needed supplies for building replacement systems in the long term.
Everyone seriously underestimates the value of Taiwan, trying to jump to it being corrupt, not mattering, etc. but there simply are not enough fabs nor workers skilled in those fabs within U.S. reach and in an extended war with countries who have the resources, the fabs and the workers who are already skilled in working them, we would be disadvantaged.
According to Intel, it takes $10 billion dollars (likely more, and likely even higher than that in a wartime environment without access to replacement parts in the first place), three years (barring supply chain issues) and and more than 6000 construction workers to build and furnish a fab, and then there are multiple levels of training from there.
Some estimations even put it at five years to build.
These tiny chips with millions, billions, tens of billions of transistors in them can't just be created in a factory that's retooled for this purpose.
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Apologies if this went too in-depth, I just wanted to elaborate on why Taiwan is critical right now. That's ignoring how something not too far from 100% of medication is made in China, which would be another huge advantage that they have.
I am very critical about the U.S. sending actually critical infrastructure overseas instead of ensuring that we are self sufficient in every critical industry. Not even least of all the fact that IP theft has put China on a map where they should never have been without being jumped forward a century.
They didn't even have a very large naval force in WW2.
The UK does not have very many usable tanks, 3 soldiers leave to one civilian joining up, and the Royal Navy is in the same state. As for the RAF, there aren't any 5 star hotels in Ukraine so they are not interested.
I think he is talking about combined NATO forces rather than just the UK.
Combined NATO forces will have trouble with an armed Iran, China and Russia. They'll even have North Korean fodder.
We also have actual allies in direct vicinity, including South Korea and Japan.
Bonus points in their favor, China would likely bring Russia in on taking Taiwan, because it is strategically very important and would drastically weaken our long term capabilities.
This government has pushed itself into a corner, and the only fixes will take time and need to be spearheaded by someone who actually loves this country (Trump).
When you say “our” what to you mean?
Well, since we end up making up the bulk of force projection across the planet even within NATO, I would be referring to the United States and by extension NATO.
With limited fabs outside of Taiwan (a grave strategic "error" [read: Intentional act]) everyone and basically every industry would start to feel the constriction, and during wartime that would prevent the military from getting needed supplies for building replacement systems in the long term.
Everyone seriously underestimates the value of Taiwan, trying to jump to it being corrupt, not mattering, etc. but there simply are not enough fabs nor workers skilled in those fabs within U.S. reach and in an extended war with countries who have the resources, the fabs and the workers who are already skilled in working them, we would be disadvantaged.
According to Intel, it takes $10 billion dollars (likely more, and likely even higher than that in a wartime environment without access to replacement parts in the first place), three years (barring supply chain issues) and and more than 6000 construction workers to build and furnish a fab, and then there are multiple levels of training from there.
Some estimations even put it at five years to build.
These tiny chips with millions, billions, tens of billions of transistors in them can't just be created in a factory that's retooled for this purpose.
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Apologies if this went too in-depth, I just wanted to elaborate on why Taiwan is critical right now. That's ignoring how something not too far from 100% of medication is made in China, which would be another huge advantage that they have.
I am very critical about the U.S. sending actually critical infrastructure overseas instead of ensuring that we are self sufficient in every critical industry. Not even least of all the fact that IP theft has put China on a map where they should never have been without being jumped forward a century.
They didn't even have a very large naval force in WW2.
I've always found this guy, who knows his stuff, to not report on things unless he has good intel.