• boyi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    probably as a future deterrent, to avoid major conflict - that they are booming becoming more and more formidable opponent and should not be taken lightly.

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      7 months ago

      This. The realpolitik purpose of showing your death and anti-death toys is always at least a little about “don’t fuck with us” same way a cigar is usually someone’s mother.

      Monke brain still Monke beneath the abstractions.

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        7 months ago

        I learn this new term today but I don’t think it fits. May be we can look at the Korean War as a case study when China intervened (around 1950) - how China changed the course of war just like that, when they were not that well equipped as compared to now.

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      7 months ago

      So formidable… Earlier detection of a severely outdated aircraft that’s being phased out…