22 Apr, 2023 19:10

Wargame reveals key US weakness in potential Taiwan war

A think tank has found that Washington would be unable to resupply the island with weapons in the event of a Chinese invasion

A wargame modeling exercise ordered by a US congressional committee has shown that it would be impossible for Washington to resupply Taiwan with weapons and equipment after a Chinese invasion of the self-governing island.

The exercise was carried out this week by the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, with help from think tankCenter for a New American Securityin Washington. “We are well within the window of maximum danger for a Chinese Communist Party invasion of Taiwan, and yesterday’s war game stressed the need to take action to deter CCP aggression and arm Taiwan to the teeth before any crisis begins,” US Representative Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the committee, said on Thursday in a statement.

The exercise showed that US forces would suffer heavy lossesif the Pentagon doesn’t shore up its stockpiles of long-range missilesand negotiate use of more military bases in the Asia-Pacific region, Reuters reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with the modeling results. The conflict would leave the world’s financial markets in “absolute tatters.”

“The business community is not taking the threat of a Taiwan crisis seriously enough,”Gallagher said, warning that a lax attitude on the issue “verges on dereliction of fiduciary duty.”

Tensions in the Taiwan Strait have escalated in the past year, with Chinese President Xi Jinping vowing to reunify the mainland with its breakaway province – by force if necessary – and US President Joe Biden repeatedly hinting that Washington would intervene militarily if China invaded.Beijing broke off security and climate ties with the US last August, after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shrugged off warnings from Chinese officials and went through with a visit to Taipei.

Earlier this year, another Washington think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), ran24 different wargame scenariosfor a US-China conflict over Taiwan. The study found the US and Japan would emerge victorious but that they wouldlose dozens of warships, hundreds of planes and thousands of troops. Taiwan would be left in ruins, while China would lose hundreds of ships and aircraft, as well as tens of thousands of troops, the CSIS said.

In light of the resupply problem, Gallagher said, Washington must accelerate deliveries of the $19 billion in US weaponry that Taiwan has ordered. He also called for more joint training exercises, reinforcement of US military installations in the region, and increased missile production.

“The goal of course is to deter China from launching the invasion,” Gallagher said in a Fox News interview before Wednesday’s wargame. “One of the obvious lessons from the failure of deterrence in Ukraine is that when it breaks down, it’s very costly in terms of lives and blood and treasure. So we are conducting this wargamein order to prevent a war.”

Gallagher added that “peace can only be achieved through strength, particularly since Xi Jinping appears to be preparing his country for war. I’m sure he’d prefer to have conquest without war. We need to be ready, and we’re not moving fast enough.”

https://www.rt.com/news/575192-us-taiwan-china-wargame/

>>18742092

We have mastered time and space and we met in the past, too bad you weren’t accelerated enough to get the invitation, but it was sent to all real anons. The real numbers are much greater than you state. It was a blast, coming back gave me a hangover though. Maybe next time you can meet us in the past!

>>18742152

Yeah I guess the trip made me a little tense, but after coming coming back I was so comfy with the memories. Do you remember we all brought a copy of our best notable and showed them around? That was so much fun. We have a diverse group of anons, it’s exhilarating to meet in the past.

>>18742226

It didn’t fare well did it? Or was it better because it was the past

>>18742226

If you are asking if you brought it, i didn’t know what that sticky stuff all over your clothes & face, so yes I think you brought it, was it one with all kinds of fruit in it? I remember you, we called you fruitloops! Kek

PS. Tupperware is not something that can transverse time and space easily

>>18742260

Read my next post before this one, it exploded on you

>>18742182

No its called a natural immune reaction to assholes. I can’t listen to pedo joe

Kek Levine starts it out with “the President does a wonderful interview, if you let him speak”. He was hinting to Hannity there

>>18742369

You are new here, I can tell, you are probably new to America too

“MS13, not that I’ve discriminating or anything butwhen you have tattoos all over your face, it’s not the greatest thing!” Kek

>>18742441

Wow they always hire child molesters because they have no conscience

>>18742577

I don’t know that, there’s too many things that make no sense

>>18742588

They showed maybe 27 minutes! Fox cut a lot for sure

23 Apr, 2023 22:21

Le Pen can take power in France – Macron

The right-wing opposition figure may win the next presidential election, the French president warns

French centrists will likely lose to right-wing politicians, namely Marine Le Pen, in the 2027 presidential elections if current "challenges"are left unaddressed, President Emmanuel Macron has warned.

Speaking to Le Parisien newspaper in an interview published on Sunday, Macron said Le Pen is set to become the biggest political winner of the ongoing turmoil in the country.

“Marine Le Pen will arrive [in power] if we are unable to respond to the challenges of the country and if we introduce a habit of lying or denying reality,” the president warned.

Given the main tool of Le Pen andher likes was “populism,” he went on, it was impossible for centrists to compete with the right-wingers in the field of making promises. Instead, they should win back the voters through real action, the president suggested. Namely, the incumbent authorities should somehow simultaneously succeed in “reindustrialization” as well as in “ecology” and a purported “fight for our public services,” Macron suggested.

Macron also stood by his highly divisive pension reform, reiterating his stance that the only real mistake about it was not advertising the unpopular move to the public enough.

“Perhaps the mistake was not being sufficiently present to give substance to the reform and carry it myself,” Macron said.

The pension reform, which included raising France’s retirement age to 64 from 62, sparked mass protests and civil unrest, which continue across the country. Macron’s decision to push through the extremely unpopular reform without a full legislative procedure has aggravated the tensions even more.

Le Pen, who unsuccessfully ran for president three times, losinghis(her?) two latest bids to Macron, has accusedMacron of creating a “total rupture” between the French public and the presidency. Speaking to BFM TV on Saturday, she said the incumbent present ended up “completely bunkered” with his reform.

“He can no longer leave the Elysée [presidential palace] without arousing the ire of a people he refuses to listen to and whose will he refuses to respect,” she said, adding that Macron was the one “at the origin of the disorder, the chaos” that engulfs the nation.

Multiple recent polls indicated Le Pen has already overtaken Macron in public popularity in the wake of the continuing turmoil. For instance, a survey conducted for BFM TV by the Elabe group early in April showedLe Pen would score 55 percentand Macron 45 percent if pitted against each other in a run-off vote at the time. During last year’s election, Macron defeated Le Pen by a comfortable margin ofsome 17 percent.

(Seriously “17” has been showing up in articles all day! The NWO agrees to pass the baton)

https://www.rt.com/news/575226-le-pen-macron-france/