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Preparing for Ukraine’s Counter Offensive

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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The Importance of Self-Delusion in China's Military

I look at China's capabilities and an amphibious assault against a hard target like Taiwan with Japan and the United States and Australia and all these other countries sitting there to support. It doesn't seem to me like China has the capability to even be thinking about that and deluding itself into victory. I don't think the Chinese Communist Party could last as long as this Russian government has lasted if it was losing a war in trying to reunify with Taiwan. But again, I have to assume that it is at the very least possible.

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