Drew Booth60 said:What I find most fascinating is how Russian air defense from back in the 70s and 80s—honestly, just decades ago—basically grounded their own air force. We all know how effective those systems can be against Western jets. If America were fighting in Ukraine—which is basically Russia's backyard—they’d dismantle the Russian military in a conventional war without even touching nukes. This whole conflict has really hammered home the point that air superiority is the absolute key to winning a war; without it, you're just left with a brutal grind where victory goes to whoever has more bodies and higher morale.
Now, China? They’ve got copies of the most advanced Western and Russian aircraft, and knowing how good they are at making clones that actually match the originals, I honestly think they're the only true threat to America. It isn't even a stretch to say that China represents a military, technological, and economic threat unlike anything we saw even during the USSR era. After the war in Ukraine started, Obama made it pretty clear that Russia is just a regional power, whereas his outlook on the Chinese had always been different. America knew way back then that Russia is primarily a nuclear threat, while China is the actual military threat capable of seriously challenging American hegemony in the Pacific. A war over Taiwan would be a much more dangerous conflict, and the outcome could decide who the next global hegemon is. Sure, America is militarily stronger and more experienced than the Chinese, but they have the home-field advantage. It’s no surprise that regarding Taiwan—which America doesn't even officially recognize as a state—Washington is dropping hints that they might actually intervene. That’s a huge contrast to Ukraine, where intervention is strictly off the table because that's a war right on the edge of NATO territory. You can contain Russia through proxy wars, but you can't really do that with the Chinese. So, it’s not that weird that America has clashed more with Russia than China, even if the latter is the bigger threat. It’s almost like they went to settle things with the weaker opponent first so they could eventually focus on the real challenge: China.
I really hope Taiwan never becomes a crisis, because that would essentially be a war between the two largest military and economic superpowers on the planet, both packing nukes—and the result of a fight like that is anyone's guess.
Can you name a single aircraft that is even remotely as good as a Western or Russian jet, or maybe even half as good as the originals?
Chinese-made planes are exactly what the name implies... total garbage.
You really have to ask yourself why, for instance, Chinese cars don't dominate Western markets.
Maybe it's because the highly developed West protects itself from an onslaught of low-quality Eastern products using technology that is vastly superior to anything China has... and they do this intentionally, something China can't and will never match.
As for a Chinese assault on Taiwan... they’d end up like the British at Dunkirk, if not much worse.
The problem is the Red Witches don't realize it; they're claiming territory that the Red Boot has never ruled and never will.
