Take that, China! · Elektrine

@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-06-18 14:19

China and Iran are allies. If the US and China go to war Iran will close the strait to their enemies. And we’ve seen the US is impotent to that and overly reliant on oil. I think China just has to deal with a first strike from the US and then wait for an impotent United States to fall apart and starve.

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@Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2026-06-18 14:22

Literally the equivalent of a homeless libertarian laughing at well to do, middle class Chinese people because he thinks he’s better off demonstrating that the US is willing Yes, because America is famous for the ambiguity around whether or not we’d go to war with global South nations and able No In that sense, it was already won The government can behave like a rabid dog, but China would Old Yeller America

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@BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml 2026-06-18 14:30

I’d put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there’s been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don’t know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.

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@Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-18 14:34

Show china youre the boss by taking hong kong back and making it independent And protecting them and taiwan

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@ICastFist@programming.dev 2026-06-18 14:42

Remember folks, the guy is a master of the deal

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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-06-18 14:16

It is absolutely maddening to see American pundits defend every dumbshit, ruinous, genocidal policy over the last twenty years by pointing at China and claiming, “We had to show them we were the boss”. From AI to A-bombs, there’s nothing you can’t get away with by insisting “China Bad! This will stop them!”

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@mecen@lemmy.ca 2026-06-18 16:06

I thing losing $400b will greatly help to put china in its place

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@pticrix@lemmy.ca 2026-06-18 16:10

I think Americans should ban debate clubs. Clearly they’re only teaching how to create mental convolutions instead of creating sound arguments.

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@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2026-06-18 16:57

So you’re saying distracting Americans from the Epstein files had nothing to do with it? LOLOL

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@dessalines@lemmy.ml 2026-06-18 20:14

The US is basically a “this is good for bitcoin”, but as a country. Its slow, humiliating, public suicide is even more pathetic than great britain’s.

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@axx@slrpnk.net 2026-06-18 20:34

How can people be so delusional? “When their salary depends on it” is a decent first answer.

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@HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2026-06-18 22:35

China: “Wow they’re a lot less tough than we thought”

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@SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2026-06-19 01:09

And as His Orangeness has said, Ghina is expensive.

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@Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2026-06-19 11:12

China couldn’t give a shit about supposed US deterrence. Henry knows that, he also knows that China receives the largest share of oil exports passing through the Strait of Hormuz, accounting for 37.7% of the trade route’s total volume. That is why they had their own blockade.

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@Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2026-06-19 12:40

Whoever wrote this is an idiot.

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@Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 2026-06-19 16:36

The war was a shit show by a shitty government.

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@Ardha@lemmy.world 2026-06-19 16:42

Yeah giving away the weakness of all our equipments iranians hurt to china is such a huge deterrant bruv

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@Smeef@crazypeople.online 2026-06-19 17:40

LMAO