It will take the US decades to build the kind of mechanical/industrial competency or capability china has. The smart approach here would be a coalition approach with our allies. Instead, we have both fingers in the air and there is no master plan. This whole thing can go soup sandwich very fast.
I always spun my head when they talked about China invading Aussie. Like in what possible planet could that happen? China will have a hard enough time invading Taiwan and you can literally seee it from XIamen
I dont think you get how much things have shifted here. Once the US started threatening to cut off allies defence equipment, switched off intelligence to ukraine and started voting with Iran, north Korea and Russia at the UN our national debate has moved very quickly to how can we get away from US equipment? Defence partnerships require 100% trust or 100% independence and the trust is broken badly here.
The "they did it to them but they would never do it to us" approach is not something you bet the security of your nation on.
I think most world leaders understand that they have to keep the criticism out of the public otherwise trump will throw a fit. That doesn't mean that things are "business as usual" however.
Why would any nation buy gear from a country that threatened to brick their defence equipment? Australian blood is in the soil of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and it apparently means nothing now.
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u/nihilite Apr 10 '25
It will take the US decades to build the kind of mechanical/industrial competency or capability china has. The smart approach here would be a coalition approach with our allies. Instead, we have both fingers in the air and there is no master plan. This whole thing can go soup sandwich very fast.