WE shoul also remember that Taiwan, for being a Medium sized Island, is a Powerhouse Militarily....
It would be stupid to do an Amphibious Landing without first Softening up the Beach with massive bombing....
But to begin massive Bombing, China would need to use Ships, Missiles, AND Jets, an Taiwan has lots of Missiles exactly for those purposes, to the point that China s guaranteed to lose most of their Ships, all of their Jets, and would have to simply write off their Missiles as a loss....
In Retaliation, Taiwan simply needs to get a few Jets into the air afterward, and head to the The Three Gorges Dam, Two Air to Ground Missiles into the Dam, and Two behind it IN the Water, an the whole thing comes down in less than three Minutes.....
A massive wall of Water will Flood the Valley, and as it goes further Down stream, it will kill off about 400 Million Chinese people, along with some 90% of their factories an their Entire Business Districts....
IF Taiwan cannot get Jets to Do that, they have alternate methods, of getting troops with explosives to the dam, think of the Movie a Bridge too far....
All it takes is a small Platoon sized Force, and a Month of time, to make that happen....
Taiwan’s military is a deterrence style, they are not bordered by any NATO country and they are definitely outnumbered militarily. I’m not rooting for China by any means, but I am being practical and China while maybe not as advanced as Taiwan supposedly is tech-wise they can keep up the fight much longer. I’m also not ignoring the fact that China has war-gamed the area around Taiwan.
Also, do you honestly think that Taiwan would want to kill 400 million noncombatants?
Dude, this is War, an Rule No. 1 is ""It's Kill or Be Killed"" as in all Other Wars....
An just like we can research in our own Lincolns War against the States, Collateral Deaths happen, that's why the Soldier Death Count is only 600,000, but the Collateral Death Count, mostly, like 70% in the South, is some 1.2 Million due to Starvation, Sickness, random Cannon Fire, Random Bullets, Random Murderers, And Non-Soldiers that would try to Protect their own Piece of Dirt, and just plain old Bad Luck....
So IF Taiwan wants the Win, it would set like Four Platoons of Soldiers with that Task in that direction, One by Ground at the Closest spot between them and Chinka, one at the Furthest spot from Them and Chinka, maybe one with fake Documents entering through customs, and maybe one doing a HALO....
IF we got into a Kinetic War with Cheyneys Wakanda, I would expect that exact attack to happen....
But for Them to attack Taiwan is an Insanity, they have much more important things to get done, and both Directions Forward or Backward, is one of those Dilemmas, They, the CCP are Fucked either way....
Go Forward and Retaliate, will harm the Chinese Businesses and Populace much more, or Back Off, an Remove Tariffs, will make them, the CCP, look very weak and Ineffective, especially with all of their Bragging and boasting and Pride....
In either Case they'll ""Get Beheaded"" hypothetically, but then maybe Literally....
An every Day that passes, the CCP looks and Gets Weaker, so Time to attack was Last Week, or even Earlier, but that time has passed....
An their Economy isn't built like ours where they can have a War, and just build War Machines all day long effectively flooding the streets with only that, they aren't set up for that....
That’s your opinion. For one nation to decide to be responsible for the deaths of 400 MILLION NONCOMBATANTS is to make oneself a pariah among nations, regardless of the reasons for such an unrestrained attack. Taiwan would lose all self-respect and no longer be seen to have any moral authority.
Ok so Hiroshima is where there was a Concentration of Japanese Christians, but it still happened, and it was the absolute Worst possible way to Kill lots of people....
No Possible Protection from a Nuke, but at least the Chinese, IF this was one, would have a Chance at survival by heading for High Ground....
You seem to think that WAR is some sort of Pleasant Experience, where two Soldiers get to fight it out on a battle field and only 1 dies, whereas Everyone else gets to live happily Ever After, that is just NOT True, we, the Humonkeys, are still Barbarians when it comes to war, you included....
Everyone knows Chinas WEAK SPOT, an has made Plans to hit it hard just in case, and the CCP Knows all of this, I'm sure they too have made plans to hit it hard in case they get ousted in a bad way....
They were Killing off ALL the Girls born in China for Decades, so lets not Pretend they care much about the Lives of the Individual, they ONLY care about having Men to fill the Ranks or their Military, and very little else....
IF Taiwan did this, their Own Self Respect would go through the Roof, they would strut like the Americans do, an ALL other Nations would stand up and take Notice, they would Gain the Respect of the Whole World, because THAT is what an How you Get Respect in this world....
Their National Leader would be able to walk around like Trump does, maneuvering into the Sweet spot when in a group if other National Leaders, like Trump does, and the only ones he Couldn't Push Around would be the U.S. President an the Russian President....
You seem to have a Very Fantastic POV on the World, but that's all it is, a Fantasy, when the Whole World is oh soo much more Realistic, and Violent, and Dangerous, that your Fantasy POV....
Not sorry for saying any of this, because it is TRUTH, an someone has to say it, even IF I'm the only one saying it, while almost everyone else is thinking it...
WE shoul also remember that Taiwan, for being a Medium sized Island, is a Powerhouse Militarily....
It would be stupid to do an Amphibious Landing without first Softening up the Beach with massive bombing....
But to begin massive Bombing, China would need to use Ships, Missiles, AND Jets, an Taiwan has lots of Missiles exactly for those purposes, to the point that China s guaranteed to lose most of their Ships, all of their Jets, and would have to simply write off their Missiles as a loss....
In Retaliation, Taiwan simply needs to get a few Jets into the air afterward, and head to the The Three Gorges Dam, Two Air to Ground Missiles into the Dam, and Two behind it IN the Water, an the whole thing comes down in less than three Minutes.....
A massive wall of Water will Flood the Valley, and as it goes further Down stream, it will kill off about 400 Million Chinese people, along with some 90% of their factories an their Entire Business Districts....
IF Taiwan cannot get Jets to Do that, they have alternate methods, of getting troops with explosives to the dam, think of the Movie a Bridge too far....
All it takes is a small Platoon sized Force, and a Month of time, to make that happen....
We could see China become Northeast Taiwan....
Taiwan’s military is a deterrence style, they are not bordered by any NATO country and they are definitely outnumbered militarily. I’m not rooting for China by any means, but I am being practical and China while maybe not as advanced as Taiwan supposedly is tech-wise they can keep up the fight much longer. I’m also not ignoring the fact that China has war-gamed the area around Taiwan. Also, do you honestly think that Taiwan would want to kill 400 million noncombatants?
Dude, this is War, an Rule No. 1 is ""It's Kill or Be Killed"" as in all Other Wars....
An just like we can research in our own Lincolns War against the States, Collateral Deaths happen, that's why the Soldier Death Count is only 600,000, but the Collateral Death Count, mostly, like 70% in the South, is some 1.2 Million due to Starvation, Sickness, random Cannon Fire, Random Bullets, Random Murderers, And Non-Soldiers that would try to Protect their own Piece of Dirt, and just plain old Bad Luck....
So IF Taiwan wants the Win, it would set like Four Platoons of Soldiers with that Task in that direction, One by Ground at the Closest spot between them and Chinka, one at the Furthest spot from Them and Chinka, maybe one with fake Documents entering through customs, and maybe one doing a HALO....
IF we got into a Kinetic War with Cheyneys Wakanda, I would expect that exact attack to happen....
But for Them to attack Taiwan is an Insanity, they have much more important things to get done, and both Directions Forward or Backward, is one of those Dilemmas, They, the CCP are Fucked either way....
Go Forward and Retaliate, will harm the Chinese Businesses and Populace much more, or Back Off, an Remove Tariffs, will make them, the CCP, look very weak and Ineffective, especially with all of their Bragging and boasting and Pride....
In either Case they'll ""Get Beheaded"" hypothetically, but then maybe Literally....
An every Day that passes, the CCP looks and Gets Weaker, so Time to attack was Last Week, or even Earlier, but that time has passed....
An their Economy isn't built like ours where they can have a War, and just build War Machines all day long effectively flooding the streets with only that, they aren't set up for that....
There's lots of Negatives to their set up....
That’s your opinion. For one nation to decide to be responsible for the deaths of 400 MILLION NONCOMBATANTS is to make oneself a pariah among nations, regardless of the reasons for such an unrestrained attack. Taiwan would lose all self-respect and no longer be seen to have any moral authority.
Japan, Dec 7th 1941....
The Return on that was Hiroshima an Nagasaki....
Ok so Hiroshima is where there was a Concentration of Japanese Christians, but it still happened, and it was the absolute Worst possible way to Kill lots of people....
No Possible Protection from a Nuke, but at least the Chinese, IF this was one, would have a Chance at survival by heading for High Ground....
You seem to think that WAR is some sort of Pleasant Experience, where two Soldiers get to fight it out on a battle field and only 1 dies, whereas Everyone else gets to live happily Ever After, that is just NOT True, we, the Humonkeys, are still Barbarians when it comes to war, you included....
Everyone knows Chinas WEAK SPOT, an has made Plans to hit it hard just in case, and the CCP Knows all of this, I'm sure they too have made plans to hit it hard in case they get ousted in a bad way....
They were Killing off ALL the Girls born in China for Decades, so lets not Pretend they care much about the Lives of the Individual, they ONLY care about having Men to fill the Ranks or their Military, and very little else....
IF Taiwan did this, their Own Self Respect would go through the Roof, they would strut like the Americans do, an ALL other Nations would stand up and take Notice, they would Gain the Respect of the Whole World, because THAT is what an How you Get Respect in this world....
Their National Leader would be able to walk around like Trump does, maneuvering into the Sweet spot when in a group if other National Leaders, like Trump does, and the only ones he Couldn't Push Around would be the U.S. President an the Russian President....
You seem to have a Very Fantastic POV on the World, but that's all it is, a Fantasy, when the Whole World is oh soo much more Realistic, and Violent, and Dangerous, that your Fantasy POV....
Not sorry for saying any of this, because it is TRUTH, an someone has to say it, even IF I'm the only one saying it, while almost everyone else is thinking it...