[dp0622]

Yeah usually there’s great reasons for a war :)

Thew world is a powder keg and only those hiding from the virus can’t see that.

I’m hoping for a skirmish at sea where they get crushed, deny it and realize how inferior their military is.

But between this virus and the blame rightly going to them but them giving it back and the collapse of oil and economies...that’s almost the textbook definition of why wars start most of the time.

And if the Chinese people get ugly no better way to distract them than a shiny new war.

[billyboy15]

“Im hoping for a skirmish at sea where they get crushed, deny it and realize how inferior their military is.”

Trust me they know EXACTLY how inferior their entire military is and not just their Navy.

[SmokingJoe]

Did we go to war with Mexico over the H1N1 virus which started on some swine farm in Mexico?
Have we gone to war with Mexico over the billions of dollars worth of cocaine, opioids etc which flow across the border every day and have killed hundreds of thousand of our youth? Far more than anything that coronavirus has done or will ever do?
Say, why don't we go to a backdated war with Spain over the Spanish Flu while we are about it?

[pierrem15]

And if the Chinese people get ugly no better way to distract them than a shiny new war.

Exactly. My worry is that the economic crisis in China will cause Xi to cause trouble abroad as a way of using nationalism to quell dissent and solidify control at home.

What's worse is that the current military situation puts a premium on striking first and quickly, and dissuading the US from intervening by presenting a fait accompli.

The same is true from our side: a quick a decisive military victory over Chinese naval forces would humiliate at lease Xi and possibly the whole CCP.

Having accepted the lockdowns, a shift over to a war mobilization would not be difficult here.