China attacks South Korea 2026:

> Be the Chinese Gen. Secretary
> Did some naughty stuff during the Cultural Revolution, but tell yourself that it was worth it for the networking
> Sounded kinda good in hindsight, now you’re at the top of the machine, untouchable
> Suddenly, someday Kim comes in to visit with a heavy folder
> Pull up a chair for him like you always do
> He splits the folder apart, revealing in excruciating detail what you did, and with whom
> “You know what have to do now, Xi boy”
> Announce an attack on South Korea from you beach club
> Two nuclear powers vs a state with barely any enriched uranium
> Gonna be a cakewalk, 3 days excursion tops
> Find out the Skoreans didn’t sit around for 80 years doing nothing and not expecting to be hit
> They make expert use of precision drones, provided by Samsung, to pummel your bases on the coast
> Your soldiers are so scared of these they dress into civvy clothes, get off bases and check into hotels
> They get targeted anyway, since the Japanese and the Americans are providing intelligence for free
> Try to retaliate, but hit schoolchildren instead
> “South Korea is increasingly desperate!”
> Foreign FMs start asking for a reason for the war
> “We had to go in preemptively to stop the Nkoreans from beating us to it”
> 3 weeks in, accomplish nothing
> The Skoreans have effectively closed the strait of Malacca
> Your cargo ships trying to make it to the ocean are burning
> Meanwhile, Kim has quietly pulled his forces from the ordeal to go deal with the Philippines
> Ask the PLA Navy to provide escort, top admiral suggests placing cargo ships in front of warships to avoid the mines
> Out of options, make an international plea for help
> Demand the United States Navy and Indian Navy help secure the strait
> The Indians say that they’re considering it (not), Trump doesn’t even bother to put in a reply
> Instead they negotiate individually with the South
> Realize that you’re really screwed and that things aren’t going to get better
> “This blockade hurts your trade more than it hurts us!”
> Threaten warcirmes
> “I will have the honor of taking Mongolia, I can do anything I want!”
> Hallucinate in a fever dream a meeting where you make productive talks to end the war, post it on your Chinese Twitter clone
> Literally everybody denies this ever happened
> Watch in agony as everyone around you think that you’ve finally lost the plot

Imagine how embarrassing that would be.

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Socialist in Europe and North America carry different meanings. In America, socialism is equivalent to far left. It’s not generally the case for the rest of the world.

I kinda want a source for this “more or less clearly”

In politics, no outright opposition is tacit approval.

Supported “in general”?

Spain and Ireland have been pretty vocal against the war in Iran, but the rest supported it more or less clearly.

Little of what humans have done on this earth is worse than Nazi Germany.

Maybe you should have a look into the Japanese “operations” in occupied China, then.

Let’s see how exactly Trump intends to chicken out of this one.

Euros

Don’t see why they’d make an exception for them. Europe in general supported the strikes on Iran.

Oh, you want your oil tanker to leave the gulf? That’ll be one million dollars.

It’d be a way to pay for reparations, at the expense of some diplomacy.

It would be in Iran’s interest to evict the United States from the gulf permanently; the punishment the Iranians must inflict should be severe enough that the US and Israel never again try to initiate an attack like this.

Thing is, can Iran understand this? In the past, their reaction against American aggression has been pretty tepid. That been said, the new Ayatollah has basically seen his family be decimated in a couple of weeks, so his response may be different this time around.

Supposedly it has Israel, but they haven’t offered to send any help. Seems like that relationship just goes one way.

That has been a long running problem for Canada. It has the raw crude, but not the refining capacity. If you’re just a resource extraction location, then you’re no better than a colony; that’s why Trump treats Canada the way he does.

At this point, Trump could just nuke Iran and both sides will cope about it being “a necessary measure to save lives from a ground invasion”. The US has no inhibitions left anymore.

Problem is, to defend their side of the strait, the US has to redeploy their defenses from places like Korea, Taiwan and Ukraine, which weakens their global position in these regions.

But yes, the US public couldn’t care less as long as it doesn’t affect them.

Many people here will accuse the United States of using Israeli tactics and of trying to pull a Gaza on Iran. That’s not true.

This time, they’re taking a page from the Russian playbook by targeting civilian infrastructure in an attempt to do collective punishment. We can see how much success these tactics have had in the past, and somehow are to believe that it will be different this time.

By that definition, any ship probably has some connection to the US/NATO, which makes their whole point about the Hormuz being open void.

Only way to ensure safe passage is for each trusted nation-state to clear each one of their ships individually in advance with Iran. And even then there’s always the possibility Iranians fire at it by mistake.

Grab’em by the Bay of Pigs.

This man is a Tyrant. The comparisons to the Third Reich aren’t just satire anymore; this is exactly what it is.