Bush: Threat of World War III if Iran goes nuclear

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Posted by atbell on Oct-25-2007 02:04:

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Originally posted by The Arbiter
Err, let's be honest about it. America would kill China. China has 3x as much infantry, but that kindof advantage is irrelevant in modern warfare. America has oodles of high-tech armor support + practically infinite air support. China's infastructure would be leveled and its coordination completely disrupted before troops became involved and by that time, clearing up those troops would be a cleanup operation. Russia are equally useless militarily, for now anyway. The problem these nations have is they dont develop new technologies and they arnt fighting anybody to test it on. America has been in a state of war for about thirty years and are miles ahead of any country. Cold war tech just doesnt compare. Militarily, they are invincible and even nuclear weapons are useless against them. The only force capable of rivalling them is the EU collectively, but let's be honest they arnt going to side with the middle east are they?

But economically, it's shooting yourself in the foot..the head, even.

You mean like the US technology has crushed the insergents in Afgani ..., or Iraq, no I mean Darfur, sorry Somalia, nope, ah crap, I mean the North Kor.. Vietnamese, no GERMANS! That's the ticket. The Germans sucked it to inferior US technology and superior US numbers.

What's the point we were proving again?

You've also ignored the Chinese anti ship missiles which have been sold to Iran. Additionally the Chinese are running a navy with some 65-70 submarines that would go U-boat on the oil imports the US desperately needs.

Posted by The Arbiter on Oct-25-2007 08:39:

Most of those battles were in the past and the more recent wars are guerilla wars. Focusing more on the most recent problem; Iraq. Let's not forget American forces for the most part are nothing more than police and are only actively driving out insurgent forces one sector at a time, effectively. When the entire American military goes medieval it can't be matched and although their anti-ship missiles are pretty good they arnt enough to stop the vast American Navy, which also has the capacity to defend whatever cargo ships it needs(55 American attack subs and plenty of ships.)

China would put up a fight, but inevitably lose the military engagement by a massive margin. Controlling the country is another issue, obviously.

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