Do you think the distribution might help? 24 independent duct fans distributed across the front and mid section of the aircraft vs 2 large propellers.

Word.

Two excellent posts.

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If China closes down the SCS it would be war, the whole point CSG is to spell that out. It worked in the Taiwan Strait in the 90's and it will work today.

You think we want to be friends with the evil Saudis? What benefit do we get from our alliance with Israel?

While you are right about Chinese components, you overstate the extent and significance. You think the Pentagon doesn’t have a whole department evaluating and managing dependence on foreign components in our military hardware?

Do the iPhones we all bought 6 months ago from Verizon stop working all of the sudden? Planned obsolescence is a luxury we would be unable to afford in wartime.

Shit son, you just wrecked that fool! Droppin’ logic bombs filled with shit on his dumbass!

Well said.

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Good point, my comment did gloss over politics and the human element, particularly that of the North. The people and politicians of the South live lives not all that different in quality to that of the average American, only once in a while, usually after Soju with friends, do they dig up the resentment of the North…

Fair enough, I guess when you put it like that, neither am I.

I should add that I agree with everything else you said apart from the bit about N. Korea WMD being such a paramount threat, we would never let it come to that, the Korean war never ended, it only stopped with a cease fire.

See, you’re already making in-roads. A porn focus group of sorts.

North Korea was a threat long before they had any nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are actually a recent development in the history of post-war Korea. Lastly, the nukes themselves just aren’t that great of a threat, because, as everyone has been pointing out, they don’t have a reliable delivery vehicle, if they were…

Well duh. It’s the only thing that keeps him from being sodomized by a bayonet like what happened to Qaddafi when Libya fell. In fact, I’d read that it was that incident that convinced the Russians to step in and help Assad.

Not a bad plan, but a very risky one. Phase 1 should probably include simultaneous, overnight evacuation of Seoul. Also, informing China after would be rather pointless, they would already know. Lastly, hard to guess what China’s reaction would be, but safe to say it would not be wise to write it off. I would guess…

And it is a ticking time bomb, making it all the more dangerous. 20 years ago, I doubt anyone would have bet that the the regime could survive the transition to Kim Jung-un.

Good points by Anonymy and yourself. Kim’s military leaders would without doubt consider defecting, their exposure to the outside world would play a role as would their knowing the inevitability of defeat; of course this would have to be weighed against existential risks to themselves and their families. It is my view…