Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jun 20 2024 07:44pm)
Furthermore, the Western bloc is still lightyears ahead of the China/Russia bloc when it comes to naval warfare and intercontinental logistics. In a true war-like scenario, we still unequivocally control the seas and could easily cut off China from the resources of Africa.
The New Axis can let its Houthi attack dogs spite us in the Red Sea right now because we aren't willing to strike back properly; because we don't want the optics of even more dead brown people. But if the West wanted to, it could bomb the Houthis back to the stone age in two weeks max.Conversely, the New Axis doesn't have the means to control the seas beyond the South China sea. Yes, China is inching closer to the point where they could break a US-led blockade of the South China Sea with land-based anti-ship missiles, but at worst, that'll allow them to capture Taiwan.
The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) recently assessed that the China’s shipbuilding industry fields 232 times the shipbuilding capacity of the United States, representing almost 50% of total global shipbuilding capacity.
China is already lightyears ahead of the US in terms of tonnage and by 2040 they will be on par with the states in terms of supercarriers/destroyers/stealth/missles. Their navy is no longer stuck in 2003 and they are producing more naval vessels and faster than the states every day.
The states has had major issues with their navy recently, especially in regards to their failed lcs program and the backlog of maintenance and labor shortages. All this to say that in the next ten years brics can tell uncle sam to fuck off and that the pools closed, again.
Also, we haven't lost our appetite for bombing brown people, it's just that the houthis will destroy Saudi oil fields and every single American asset it can reach, remember they've been testing Iranian hypersonics now.
You have the houthis blocking the Red Sea, Iran and hezboallah threatening to shut down the med sea via algeria/north Africa and china/russia/nk shutting down the south China sea.
This just reinforces goomshills point that western hegemony is slipping by the day due to incompetent leadership. These bric countries united like this will be able to overcome the weaponization of the dollar and impotent jdams but it's OK! The West still has diversity and inclusion; doctors and engineers will bridge the gap and we will continue to spread Sodomy across the globe.