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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by delfinom on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:34AM (#48108910)
>I shudder to think just how badly we will be outmatched in a shooting war with China.

A study a few years ago gave the US just 1 week before all its missiles were depleted with China in just a naval war.

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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by bparsons on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:09PM (#48111129)
Iranians were scoring direct hits on top priority infrastructure in the first days of the conflict. Only in the last couple of weeks has US media started to report the extensive damaged visited upon the (now mostly abandoned) US bases in the gulf.

Its really difficult to overstate the level of strategic defeat that has occurred here.

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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by expedition32 on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:39PM (#48111567)
If the war is about Taiwan there are problems. Who in America wants to die for Taiwan? Let's be honest there would also be a racial component in it. Berliners were at least white and Christian.

CCP on the other hand can play the nationalist card.

Ofcourse it is my genuine belief that war between the US and China would be amazingly stupid and a waste of human life.

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