It absolutely does and I am frankly more disappointed that we are choosing not to address it. It tells me that more people agree with him than we’re willing to let on or that we’ve decided that our institutional values aren’t worth defending anymore. I don’t like either of those outcomes.

I am very appreciative of people like @bradduplessis.bsky.social modeling what our Officer Corps should actually be like, for what it’s worth!

I do actually appreciate that they’ve decided BF3/BF4 are canon and the reason RU/PRC aren’t in it is because they lost in 2020. Battlefield really got the good timeline

Also no!

When are you publishing the full book?

When that Philippine Navy SEAL had his hand cut off, I was pretty sure it was on tbh. Still not sure how that did not end in gunfire

The 1988 clashes between Vietnam and the PLA were the last and most serious fight, but I think the PRC is historically more willing to act against Vietnam, knowing full well that they don’t have a mutual defense treaty with Washington

I think both sides are largely aware that shots in anger mean that it’s on and that there’s no turning back after that point. However, I do wonder about the consequences of a China Coast Guard cutter having another accident during a confrontation with the AFP during a comms interruption…

I am becoming concerned this may well be where we are headed. How we have not had such an incident thus far staggers the mind, quite frankly

And the fact that we presume that we will be given the opportunity to decide the dynamics of escalation is the height of hubris, frankly!

This kind of discourse is exactly why I am so exceedingly frustrated by the conversation re: the PRC. They have already decided to hold my home (a U.S. Territory) at risk. What makes these people think they won’t hold Alaska, Washington, Cali, and Hawaii at risk if given the opportunity? What then?

It’s pretty clear to me that Colby et al in the GOP foreign policy sphere have worked really hard to frame the PRC as an racially otherized enemy (a “Yellow peril”) rather than ideological one. I don’t think that approach will end in our favor.

Carl maybe has a 2.4 GPA, he’s definitely not getting into college

They’re not trying to win your heart or your mind. They’re aiming for Carl Cornfed, 17, who is currently the star linebacker on Wahlert Catholic High School’s Dubuque, Iowa 4A winning championship team.

I think the most incomprehensibly funny part is they left as soon as they were confronted by the notorious libs of the LAPD

I hate how right you were.

I wouldn’t put it past DHS at this rate tbh. They seem to love LARPing as a DoD entity.

My sole criticism with FD2030 isn’t the focus on the PRC. It’s the lack of bayonet strength and Engineer/protection support within the MLRs tbh. They keep wanting the MLRs to duke it out in the FIC without much mass or survivability to do that with. It’s like boxing without any blocking