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In July 2024 China transported soldiers 3,000 miles away into Belarus. They conducted joint training exercises only 1.7 miles away from NATO member Poland’s border and 40 miles away from the border with Ukraine. Does this mean its time to sound the alarmist alarm? The chinese are coming the chinese are coming!
The reason this has made world news headlines is because of the implication. Beijing hasn’t done a mission like this since 2015. The timing of this drill indicates the CCP is sending a warning message to the United States that they are prepared to deploy troops to fight against NATO in Europe. BUT it begs the question, COULD they actually project power into Europe? How many troops could they deploy and sustain that far away from their borders and how long would it take them to build up combat power?
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Looks like diversity is about to be Poland's GREATEST STRENGTH
Russia and China have allied together because the US DOD says we'll be at war with China in the next 5 yrs AND we're all ready fighting a proxy war with Russia. I don't want us to go to war with anyone. But we definitely can not go to war with BOTH Russia and China. WTF?!
They can just use next day shipping from Amazon to move everything 😂
We don’t know what China 🇨🇳 is capable of. They can’t build their own design aircraft carrier-then they can. They don’t have EMALS-then they do. They have half decent copies of the Typhoon and F35. We’re forgetting that China are expert thieves & copycats!
People don’t have heart fighting for a communist country
People always talk about digging a hole to China but what if they dig a hole FROM China? I don't think this has been given enough consideration.
Because if the Poles love anything, it's a commie, right?
Its like fighting jellyfish
Now ccp are Powerful than the eu so if the containure importing to china the make good econamy of ccp bitter stopped importing to make them down
US :showing off muscles in china’s front door and backyard for decades.
China:……..
China: getting a workout in Europe
US: YOU TRYNNA FLEX ON ME!!
Theres this technology called trains 🚂
中国是去反恐，恐怖分子就是那些在白俄罗斯边境图谋不轨的人。
Doing business with hostile nations, thanks, money isn't everything
I think a lot of people fail to realize that if China decides to send thousands of troops into Poland, NATO cannot run air bombing campaigns on Polands territory
Lmao China being a threat😂
There Chineses everywhere i have some even in my bedroom 🙂
The REAL value of China to Russia & Belarus (or Iran) is not boots on the ground, but rather logistics, ISR, & air power.
If Sino-US ties deteriorated enough, & there was a hot war between Russia & NATO, there's nothing to stop China from providing an endless amount of munitions & supplies of all types, be it spare parts, UCAV components, raw materials such as steel, field kitchens, etc. – anything & everything that a modern military would require, through the Trans-Siberian or the China-Europe railway. Given that the PRC's industrial capacity is now bigger than that of the collective West combined, they can ensure that the West can never outgun Russia, even if it manages to outnumber Russia. Moreover, the PLA could also provide ISR assets such as real-time satellite recon to Russian forces, & provide redundant satellite coverage to aid Russian tracking & targeting of enemy forces. To the extent that the PLA could directly intervene in an European conflict, it doesn't have to send traditional combat units such as infantry, armor, artillery, etc., & doesn't have to deploy to the frontlines. It could deploy air defense units to Russian strategic rear areas, so as to free up Russian IADS forces for frontline combat. It could deploy UCAV units for long-range recon or strike (e.g. UCAVs such as WZ-8 or GJ-11). Another option for direct intervention is to deploy PLAAF fighters to fly CAP missions over Russian/Belarusian airspace, or bombers for missile strikes vs high-value targets.
In a WW3 scenario, if the Sino-US cold war deteriorated bad enough, the PLA doesn't have to deploy any of the above to the European theater of war, it would simply start to reunify Taiwan by force. At that point, the US would need to drop everything in Europe to fight the PRC over Taiwan, or simply let TW go.
Bottom line – counting how many Y-20s can fly in & how many troops can be airlifted to the frontline is not really a useful measure of the PRC's ability to tip the balance of power in favor of Russia, the PLA has plenty of far more practical options to ensure that a European war becomes unwinnable for NATO; the recent Sino-Belarusian exercises are more political messaging than anything else, & shouldn't be interpreted as any sort of "dress rehearsal" for a real war.
Can Europe fight a land war in China?
Every country seems to be staging and getting ready to fight. It seems like peace is not an option they want. Unfortunate. This might be humanity's great filter to the fermi paradox. If the nukes go off, it's highly likely no one will survive the nuclear winter. Domino effect, one thing after another. Russia really didn't have to invade, they could've negotiated for resources/partnership. America didn't have to openly give aid to Ukraine, it really wasn't our problem and getting involved just made things more complicated. Then you got the Palestine and Israel thing. China and India and Taiwan. North Korea is always there with South Korea. Shit blows.
Americans and generally the West have underestimated the Chinese and The Russians for decades. Maybe we should quit our postering and learn from them.
Despite what the presenter said about railhead operations, they ain't that hard, at least not in Europe. We trained on these operations once every six months and nobody got hurt or killed.
The Y20 looks like a great design, nice lines, but how durable is it in the long run. Does it have a short operational lifespan before wear and tear takes a toll and it gets grounded or is it a tough workhorse that takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'?
US NATO need to stop! Bloody terrorists
I'm guessing they dropped off N. Koreans to go fight in Ukraine as cannon fodder
Ratcheting up…
They are subtly warning the West that if NATO tries something, Chinese troops will augment Russian troops to oush back NATO.
And remember, even if only 1% of China's poplulation join their military, that is 14 million troops!
1st mistake is assuming russia cares where chinese eat, sleep and dook.
It is inconvriveable that China intends to commit the classic blunder of getting involved in a land war in Europe.
Your presumption is flawed. In a serious war, they could send 100 millions military people to live in the Russian territory for long time as long as the Russian federation allows.
Wow that is a really china bully and bullying
So Poland allowed china to do testing on their land theres alot of explaining to do
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