Much of China’s economic success was enabled by joining the WTO in 2001. Still, the Navy is woefully underfunded to implement that transition and without a several-year gap in battle capacity. Obama Undersecretary Flournoy articulated a strategy based on smaller ships, drones and other agile forces. China’s land-based missiles make those vulnerable and ineffective in theaters close to China.
The fleet is heavily dependent on aircraft carriers and other large ships to enable American air dominance and support ground troops. Still, China has the home-field advantage in the East and South China Seas. Presidents Trump and Biden have successfully focused India, Japan, Australia and the U.K. military having great difficulty, for example, unable to repel a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. RAND wargame simulations routinely show the U.S. It’s a socialist-market economy that is remarkably successful and is financing a massive naval buildup that leaves the U.S. Biden has left is to sanction a few more of their leaders - who weren’t planning to visit Disneyland anytime soon. Biden has not adequately retaliated for Russia’s cyberpiracy and Iran’s drone attacks, for example, on Israeli shipping. Merkel cut a deal as cynical as Chamberlain sacrificing the Sudetenland.
That will only serve to increase the German money Russia can pour into its military, mischief in places like Syria, Libya and Central Asia and bullying former iron curtain states along its border.
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