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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by AussieWog93 on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:03AM (#30465555)
>Not to mention a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be almost trivially easy for the US to stop. It's an island, and the US has naval and air supremacy.

This was maybe true in 1996, but less so today (at least from what I've heard).

China is rapidly approaching naval parity with the US, and they have enough land-based anti-ship missiles to deny most surface vessels access to the Taiwan straight.

That's not even considering the logistical aspects of it all. Taiwan is 150km from the coast of China and 10,000km away from the coast of the US...

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by toyg on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:31AM (#30466161)
Okinawa and Mageshima bases are there for a reason, something like 300-400m from Taiwan. For military purposes, Japan is effectively an extension of the US border.

That's one of the great innovations of the US military model. Ensuring air domination allows them to effectively expand control by simply placing bases. Britain had done that in the past with naval forces but their logistic challenges are more complicated when it comes to defending supply lines.

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