america and its allies easily, obviously america is the strongest by a mile in that group but theres way too many allies involved too for russia,china,north korea, iran to stand much of a chance. none of europe is that powerful on its own but all rich and combined would easily beat russia,then youve got countries such as japan, israel and south korea too who are no joke, india hate china too so probs be happy to join in. although their is a danger that the western forces decide to retreat mid way through when a new 'covid wave' poses too much risk to operations, or they decide to change up their commanders/hierarchy because theres not enough diversity
None of the Eurasian team have got significant force projection capabilities so we're necessarily talking about scenarios around their borders or in adjacent countries where team red got all the logistics advantages. . Lotta it will depend on who attacks who though. Basically NATO and allies couldn't hope to take and hold any significant amount of Russia or China but could succeed in neutralizing their ability to wage an offensive war on any scale.
Longer term in an attritional conflict China is problematic cos of their vast manufacturing capacity the relatively straightforward transition to a full command economy and military production, not to mention a population that could maintain replacement levels almost indefinitely in any conventional (non NBC) war.
Where are they fighting and for what? If China invaded Taiwan with the help of those countries than the US side would have a lot of trouble preventing it and winning over there. US side would do more damage but they would not be able to expel China from Taiwan and both sides would be limping after. If those countries tried to invade the US they would no longer have militarys. If China tried to invade Britain or France they would be expelled.
For years I have been telling ungrateful Anti American Euros that instead of bashing the US all the time they should be thankful for the the US military. I wonder if they are starting to change their tune yet?
I will say one of the things this country is starting to fix is that we are bringing back silicon 'chip' manufacturing to the US.
This is good for two reasons. First, national security. Many Americans are completely unaware of this, but we don't manufacture very many of the billions of computer chips we use both for civilian and military use. A large number come from China, and smaller countries in the Chinese (and North Korean) sphere of influence. All that supply could be cut off in the blink of an eye if China desires. Being able to produce more of our own only makes sense in terms of national security.
Second, jobs. Each of these 'wafer fabs' bring a few thousand direct jobs. And those plants require massive support from countless other companies. That's thousands more jobs. And these jobs are excellent jobs. The high-tech management and engineers there, those guys make tons of money. And on the low end, even the guys working the production line are going to be making over 2x the minimum wage as well as full health benefits, 401k, etc.
Ohio just opened a massive one, and Intel says there will be more.
Here is a good article on this.
Of note, the article gives politicians of bothpolitical parties' credit for the policies that led to this. It also pointed how Pelosi will be introducing a bill seeking "$52 billion in subsidy funding" to encourage more wafer fabs to open in the US in coming years. It's another good sign to see ********s who normally rail at anything beneficial to job creators as "corporate welfare for large corporations" actually embracing pro-job creation policies that will benefit thousands and thousands of American workers.
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