US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warns China’s hypersonic missiles could destroy all US aircraft carriers in 20 minutes.
  • brvslvrnst
    41•3 months ago

    Lol sounds like he’s doing a great job in his role checks notes in charge of US defense.

  • @[email protected]
    77•3 months ago

    Rule 1. When you’re having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.

    • Dessalines
      28•3 months ago

      Apparently the crucial moment for the US to attack was a few year ago, when they still had naval superiority. They missed their window luckily for us. Thanks to the PRC the US doesn’t get to use SE Asia and Europe as their cannon fodder.

  • @[email protected]
    16•3 months ago

    Lots of comments that “this is a false distraction to justify war on Panama”. War on Panama is about interdicting Chinese commerce with Brazil and other countries south of US. Including FDI in Panama to boost its cross ocean trade volume through a railway.

    This is more of a classified leak exposing US weakness and impotence. This does compromise stupid people’s faith in US protections across the world, and their rulers corrupt submission to US under propaganda of US protection.

  • @[email protected]
    2•3 months ago

    …and the US could make a China shaped nuclear crater to the west of Taiwan. Then everyone clapped.

    “Bro, what if…”

    • @[email protected]English
      4•3 months ago

      Could they though? You think China would just sit around and let the U.S fire nuclear missiles at them without intercepting them and firing their own? Why are you so sure that wouldn’t just end up with a U.S sized crater north of Mexico?

      Also, dismissing any predictive situation as some crazy out there “what if” is hilarious.

      War games are an extremely important part of any strategy so that you don’t just walk right into an easily predictable slaughter because you “don’t care about what ifs”.

    • @[email protected]
      36•3 months ago

      I remember how they bragged that the operation against Yemen was the biggest naval operation since WW2.

      And they lost that, against country having no navy and no airforce.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•3 months ago

      This has to be one of the funniest wiki pages I’ve read in a while

      Over the course of the simulation, heavy constraints were placed on the Red force’s ability to free-play “to the point where the end state was scripted”,[4] resulting in a Blue victory.

      At this point, the exercise was suspended, Blue’s ships were “re-floated”, and the rules of engagement were changed; this was later justified by General Peter Pace as follows: "You kill me in the first day and I sit there for the next 13 days doing nothing,

      Van Riper’s forces were ordered not to shoot down any of the approaching aircraft.[7][8] Van Riper also claimed that exercise officials denied him the opportunity to use his own tactics and ideas against Blue Force, and that they also ordered Red Force not to use certain weapons systems against Blue Force and even ordered the location of Red Force units to be revealed

      The exercise involved both live exercises and computer simulations, costing US$250 million (equivalent to about $437M in 2024)