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Re:BYD Builds World's Fastest Car by attentive on Monday October 06, 2025 @03:50AM (#45488731)
Best way to find yourself in war is not prepare for one. As shown time and again. Also, persuading your enemies not to prepare for war is a part of the war effort.

> so anachronistic

tell that to ruzzia

Re:BYD Builds World's Fastest Car by contrarian1234 on Monday October 06, 2025 @04:04AM (#45488824)
> As shown time and again

what a load of warmongering bs.. I literally can't think of a single example. Korea, Vietnam, France, Britain, Japan, Germany every country involved in a war in the past ~100 years had prepared for it. Maybe maybe Iraq under Saddam Hussein didn't properly prepare? Though they were highly militarized. On the contrary, the more you prepare and get people frothing at the mouth the more likely it's gunna happen.

Thank god none had been between two nuclear powers so far

> tell that to ruzzia

They had a bunch of tanks and seemingly lost huge amounts of them. They seem to be a prime example of tanks not working in the modern context

Re:BYD Builds World's Fastest Car by nickpp on Monday October 06, 2025 @04:37AM (#45489077)
So what do you propose we do when China attacks? Capitulate?!
Re:BYD Builds World's Fastest Car by triceratops on Monday October 06, 2025 @10:36AM (#45491892)
Why "when"?
Re:BYD Builds World's Fastest Car by nickpp on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @03:12AM (#45500228)
Military build-up. Xi's own bellicose declarations towards Taiwan. Closeness to and participation into other dictator's military endeavors.
Re:BYD Builds World's Fastest Car by ponector on Monday October 06, 2025 @04:50AM (#45489179)
>> They seem to be a prime example of tanks not working in the modern context

Without proper strategy nothing works. Size of the russian army was too small for the task to fight and occupy such a huge county as Ukraine.

Also russians had bunch of old tanks, almost all of them made in USSR.