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backflips_everyday t1_iu3xklq wrote

The new Axis, along with North Korea.

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Seek_Adventure t1_iu43kpn wrote

"Combined GDP the size of a single US state" Axis

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Dunkinmydonuts1 t1_iu452p7 wrote

is the US really at war if we just sick California on them?

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Ediwir t1_iu4fi1r wrote

Only if Russia doesn’t win your midterms, otherwise we’ll be sorry we didn’t follow Macron’s idea of expanding EU military.

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Drunkenly_Responding t1_iu56qmr wrote

That's not fair to California, they already do enough heavy lifting for most of the U.S. I'm looking at you my fellow southern states.

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Dunkinmydonuts1 t1_iu5catj wrote

Point being California has a bigger gdp than all three countries combined.

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blaze53 t1_iu7okos wrote

Only because they have the biggest tech companies located there. When you take out Silicon Valley there's probably not nearly as much left.

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Dunkinmydonuts1 t1_iu7q0sl wrote

40 million people live there lol. They had four football teams until last year

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Historical-Teach-102 t1_iu6oc8a wrote

No offense to CA but I'm thinking Texas would be more cost effective and likely a better outcome. They could bring their own weapons

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VovaGoFuckYourself t1_iu6p74x wrote

Californians have weapons too. They just have to be registered.

It's a myth that the left doesn't have guns.

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Historical-Teach-102 t1_iu6rgzv wrote

Don't recall saying they had none.

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Dunkinmydonuts1 t1_iu75as4 wrote

When you said

> They could bring their own weapons

You were heavily implying that California didn't have any.

So... yeah.

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Historical-Teach-102 t1_iu7711v wrote

Texas has almost twice as many registered firearms and since Texas has less regulations regarding ownership I would say its fair there are more. I don't live there so no dog in this hypothetical fight. If I was going to make any implication it wouldn't have been a veiled one.

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Aspwriter t1_iu71p5d wrote

But what if Russia puts one of its soldiers in a school?

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BukakeMouthwash t1_iu72zdw wrote

You mean what if Russia starts using conscripts from grade schools.

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Eaton_Rifles t1_iu5k9s1 wrote

Make it Alaska and go in through the back door, just don’t bump into the Chinese doing the same...🤫

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Spazum t1_iu6hke4 wrote

Don't forget Eritrea, the North Korea of Africa.

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red_dragon t1_iu4pl6w wrote

And China

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backflips_everyday t1_iu51926 wrote

I wouldn’t fully put them in that category, personally. If modern Russia is WW2 Germany, China is the USSR. They’re only on their side. Definitely not on yours or my side, but they’re not on anyone else’s side either.

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red_dragon t1_iu51rhj wrote

They are hunkering down and building capacity for 50+ years. That was literally what Mao and Deng planned for. Wait for the Taiwan invasion and China would come out as the real Axis Germany.

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TrickData6824 t1_iu53ci6 wrote

>Wait for the Taiwan invasion

We've been waiting almost 80 years for that invasion. Still hasn't happened.

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omnibossk t1_iu6jt7z wrote

Russia has plenty of Territory taken from China in the 1850s. A weak Russia could be more tempting to take on than a strong Taiwan backed by US.

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backflips_everyday t1_iu5hpdc wrote

In 50+ years the Chinese economy is going to be demolished by an aging population. They’re bottlenecked by population difference and they’re fucked no matter what they do, even if they have the worlds most progressive immigration policy, no one wants to move there.

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hypnoticlycaucasian t1_iu5je41 wrote

Silly westoid. Now that Xi has completed his glorious transformation to Mao 2.0, ... there will be ... but what about the all of the bad things the west has done, and they also have an ageing population! Thus it is safe to say that China will be fine and continue to prosper because hypocritical west and decadent liberal democracy does nothing for the real people.

Do you really do backflips every day, though?

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backflips_everyday t1_iu5jx3a wrote

There’s nothing white trash about the way I can spread my legs out this far thanks to my cut off jeans

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Iceblade_Aorus t1_iue0h87 wrote

As if CCP has done anything for the real people in the past decade, Xi destroyed the country from the inside

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hypnoticlycaucasian t1_iuf33x4 wrote

I'm getting the impression that some people might somehow have missed the ultra-extremely obvious sarcasm in my comment.

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nonono33345 t1_iu5mftk wrote

China still cares its economy. Russia clearly does not. North Korea never did.

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Intrepid_Objective28 t1_iu55g49 wrote

Even if you put China, Russia, and Iran together, their combined GDP is still smaller than the GDP of the US alone.

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red_dragon t1_iu55v65 wrote

By that logic Russia should have beaten Ukraine soundly.

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dalenacio t1_iu5gmos wrote

Logic hasn't been know to apply to Russia for some time now.

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nonono33345 t1_iu5mnmx wrote

Why? Are you completely ignoring all the aid Ukraine is getting to push back Russian aggression, short of foreign boots on the ground?

Nevermind. You don't seem like a logical thinker so I really don't care what you have to say. Just know that I think your conclusion sounds like a load of malarkey.

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