He told the New York Times that he thinks the U.S. will “very likely” find itself in a three-front war with China, Russia, and Iran. As a result, he said, the Pentagon should continue developing autonomous weapons at full speed, pointing to big mismatches in how far the U.S. would be willing to go while fighting a war compared with other countries.
He’s also got plenty of financial incentive to say shit like that. War on all 3 of those fronts would be so untenable with the state of things and he knows that which is why he’s advocating for more drones but really? How realistic is that? China’s drones are at least as advanced as ours
We have the arsenal to win all 3 wars almost instantly. Until now, no leader was stupid enough to take that route, but we have Trump.
Don’t try to logic this situation with reasonable military tactics.
Don’t be absurd, you most definitely do not have that. You have the arsenal to ensure mutual destruction between you and your nuclear armed enemies.
And the rest of the world 20x over thanks to pissing matching snow flakes.
We have the arsenal to win all 3 wars almost instantly.
As another poster pointed out, this is…not true.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-stockpiles-missiles
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-missile-defense-under-strain-213274
Blam
I believe they are referring to a far blunter instrument of death which would only purvey loss on a scale that is unprecedented and difficult to imagine.
Again, as the other respondent pointed out, the overwhelmingly likely end result of a nuclear exchange is hardly a “win” for any party.
Oh yeah, I just finished editing to add that part to be more clear of my opinion on the subject. There will never again be a nuclear “win” in human history, and in truth I wouldn’t even count the first.
I wouldn’t call global nuclear annihilation ‘winning’.
Trump would, and he has the keys.
Define win because I’m pretty sure it doesn’t mean what you think it means.
The only tactic with “almost instant” results would be the US just nuking everything, which A. is definitely not a “win” by any definition, and B. is an insanely irresponsible assumption that there wouldn’t be substantial collateral damage and that’s if you were inhumane enough to ignore the lives of everyone living in the targeted countries to begin with.
Or somehow do you think the US could win a conventional war against three separate countries “almost instantly”, after it took 2 decades to make absolutely no lasting changes in Afghanistan? In which case just lol.
If Trump authorizes nuclear strikes on Russia, China and Iran, it is the secret services patriotic duty to put a pewpew seed in the old rooster’s noggin.
That line’s already been crossed and nobody has done a thing.
Whoever launches nuclear weapons definitely loses and drags their economic allies down with them.
No you don´t. You couldn´t win in Vietnam or Afghanistan, the latter with the help of NATO (Rmember, srticle 5 was invoked by the US, and some of us European deeply regret to have helped and sent our soldiers die for the US).
I mean, George Dubbya kinda let this one slip back in the 2000s.
Yes he did, the New World Order plans.
He says shit like this to juice his stock and defense contracts.
TBF I could have told you that was a real possibility like 3 or 4 years ago at least, but at that time I would have said it was unlikely because theres no way everybody just forgets how bad the Trump admin was and elects more republicans. The USA would have to be steeped in mental illness and masochistic mouthbreathing assholes for them to elect someone like Trump who escalates the situation.
Thank God I have severe sleep apnea.
Psychopaths
The US could probably take on Russia and Iran without much effort, but isn’t China’s military actually comparable to the US’?
China considers itself a regional power, and doesn’t delude itself into calling itself a world power like Russia does. So it’s unlikely they’d direct any strikes at CONUS if a war broke out. They would instead try to force all US/allied influences out of their sphere of influence and just play the defensive game until some kind of peace could be negotiated.
They have aspirations to become a global power in the next century and possibly could do it, the real question is do they intend to share the stage with the US or find ways to erode US power down to regional power and rise up to take their place?
I think that if a war was to break out, it would be like US vs Japan in WW2. Except we would be Japan and China would be the US.
The Japanese had superior weapons and ships, but were unable to replace losses in a timely fashion, leading to being dominant in the beginning of the war, but once the US manufacturing base started producing weapons and ships, the Japanese were quickly overwhelmed and unable to keep up.
No. Only slightly in number of people. And even then, they’re probably more Russian like than we’re expecting.
The Chinese have little to no capacity for long range strikes. As long as you stay out of the way, they can’t do very much.
In tech, yes. In expenditure; no.
But they arent as much of a violently corrupt politically theatrical shit show, so id put it at roughly even odds.
If we can’t clean up Iran quickly there’s gonna be a no front war because China will roll us
Bet you China has some checkmate against carriers they’ll pull from their sleeve if things go hot.
Chinese think many steps ahead so they won’t escalate until victory is very likely.
Lunatics are truly running the asylum.
You know this fucking guy loathes himself
Wtf is going on with that hair?
It’s fighting a 360 front war
So the guy who runs the AI intelligence corporation thinks the West is morally superior to the degree that more amoral, barbarous countries like China and Russia and Iran have some advantage over us.
Like it’s just sensitive and soft westerners fighting against robotic Asians and Russians. Iranians are so evil compared to us: they’re willing to use nukes!
Ridiculous. There is no possible way that HitlerPig will go to war against Russia. What is far more likely, is that he abandons NATO, and signs a pact with Russia, China, and North Korea.
As a show of good faith, we will surrender Taiwan to China, and Alaska to Russia (establishing a Russian military presence in our hemisphere, on our landmass), and in exchange, we can have Canada and Mexico.
HitlerPig would consider that a good deal.
I’d rather fight a one front war against palantir
What makes him think we’re going to fight Russia? Mango Mussolini loves Russia.
This article was from before the election.
Derp, missed that part
Yeah Hitler “loved” Russia for a minute too
10 months ago*
Because Trump turns on everyone eventually.
art of the TACO
Not to mention China seems to choose the most economical decision it seems. They care about Taiwan strictly because of money. There is no economic growth for them from fighting the U.S.
I disagree about Taiwan. That’s a thing that goes back to the founding of modern China, it is, and has been a cornerstone of their policy. But otherwise ya, they seem to make rational economic choices.
That is so false.
China routinely hamstrings its industry with burdensome government involvement.
And they act out like raging toddlers. Look at how poorly they managed integrating HK because they wanted to rush it with force.
It only seems like that because theyre being compared next to the US which is currently sawing its own leg off.
Also they’re in no shape to fight
In some sense our large contributions to Ukraine earlier in the war could be seen as us fighting Russia via proxy. If I recall correctly our involvement with conflicts in Syria were also seen similarly, as us fighting a Russian proxy state. My understanding is that war between nuclear powers often looks like this because all out war could escalate to nuclear weapons too quickly. All this to say, I think we were already at war with Russia before Trump regained office.
