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Re:The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transpor... by 15155 on Sunday August 03, 2025 @07:59PM (#44780900)
> Recent wargames predict the US will exhaust regional supplies of antiship missiles within days to weeks and those missiles have a lead time of years to build and the US only has a capacity of a few dozen a year.

We don't need to sink their warships, just their freighters leaving Brazil - which they cannot quickly replace.

An immediate lack of calories will sort out any military problem out remotely.

Sprinkle in ten thousand naval mines and things look very different.

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Re:The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transpor... by Teever on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:48AM (#44782749)
China has been stockpiling commodities for a while[0] now in preparation for this kind of situation and that they are accelerating the rate at which they are stockpiling.[1]

It is also important to note that China is not an Island like Britain or Australia and can secure food from other locations over land.

This kind of thinking that military conflict with China would be trivial due to some simple ace in the hole like having many aircraft carriers or cutting off their food supply needs to stop. It is hopelessly naive and underplays the very real possibility of humiliating defeat in an impending conflict with China over Taiwan.

[0]https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/07/23/w...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-plans-acce...

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