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[FullMoon]

I look for Hamas to launch another enormous hostage-taking attack on Israel as soon as the dust settles from this "peace deal." After all, they just got back at least 100 of their own people for every hostage surrendered. It worked so well the first time, they'd be crazy not to do it again! Of course, Israel knows this. Get the popcorn.

I see. Although Israel maintains absolute dominance and has cleared the area around the borders, Hamas will magically pull out of the hat another miracle. Because 10/7 wasn't an inside job, right? I suppose the 8th front is at work on this forum.

[Navigator]

Hamas can't be trusted at all. They are basically a mafia type organization, where the top leadership become immensely wealthy taking a cut of all aid. They will not give up control or their weapons unless they are dead.

I am glad the Israeli's got their hostages back, but it was indeed at too high of an exchange rate. Maybe they went along with it in order to show Trump that Hamas wouldn't follow through on most of the negotiated terms.

The only viable solution is to move the Arab population out of Gaza. Best destination for them right now is Syria.

[Trevor]

We have rare earth metals here and can get more from Australia. China's had a monopoly primarily because they lack environmental and labor laws, so they can poison everything in sight, including their workers, without consequence.

Since the end of the Cold War, our military has been designed for sharp, decisive conflicts or ongoing insurgencies. Our defense base isn't anywhere close to being prepared for a large-scale war against an opponent like China. I know some here have speculated that these smaller conflicts are an intentional method of draining our munitions, weakening us for when China launches their assault. I couldn't say one way or the other, but that could easily end up backfiring, because it also motivated us to begin building new assembly lines.

I don't think much more is going to be done just because things have gotten so dysfunctional in Washington that, if one party prepares, the other will sabotage them out of spite. Vital artillery shell assembly lines were delayed by months back in 2024. Politics is the main obstacle right now, not a lack of industrial ability.

Just as bad, our disfunction makes us look weak to China, convincing them that we won't be willing to fight for something like Taiwan.

[FullMoon]

Our defense base isn't anywhere close to being prepared for a large-scale war against an opponent like China. I know some here have speculated that these smaller conflicts are an intentional method of draining our munitions, weakening us for when China launches their assault

While at the same time we'd like to engage with rivals who are many years ahead of us already with manufacturing development on a scale that dwarfs our own. They're definitely game planning this and are operating by strategic intent. The latest escalation was many years in the making.
I heard several financial analysts saying that it's clear that China is going down and this latest move is to bring everyone else with them. Just like they did with COVID.

[Bob Butler]

Our defense base isn't anywhere close to being prepared for a large-scale war against an opponent like China.

Just as bad, our disfunction makes us look weak to China, convincing them that we won't be willing to fight for something like Taiwan.

I don't doubt we'd be at a big military disadvantage on land against China, but they have an equal disadvantage at sea. They have but the one carrier, and it can't launch aircraft with a full fuel load and payload. Meanwhile, would you want to try to launch a sea invasion in an area with modern submarine opponents? I perhaps spend too much time reviewing WW II in the Pacific, how US carriers and submarines overwhelmed Japan. Japan didn't believe the US would be willing to fight in 1941 either, but they were quite wrong. Catastrophically wrong. Culture changing wrong. I don't see China in a very different position.

Economically China has their problems, but they have the advantage of Trump's tariffs giving them an economic advantage with nations avoiding same. They can likely limp on as long as Trump is in power.