Read this article to go insane

newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/n...

Things YIMBYs can abide;
Paedophiles, Social Murder, Wealth inequality etc

Things YIMBYs can't abide;
Poors in the city

But they aren't, they're building defensive systems and infrastructure. Because they're convinced the west is going to use military force to pressure China into a position more suitable to western interests. And they're probably right.

The wildest thing is China does not want war! Aside from public statements look at the military investment. If they were ramping up for war we'd be seeing a huge increase in shell production, a more strategic realignment of civilian production, vast increase in naval vessel production ...

No one is going to be able to out build China, no one is going to be able to make more drones than China, China has the manpower to support a sustained engagement, Chinas allies produce more shells than the rest of the world combined like this isn't rocket science

*North Korea* produces 2 million a year currently. It's hard to say how much Russia produces and how much is North Korean shells double counted but they're in roughly 3 million. This is what is deciding battles in Ukraine, which side can fire more shells and who can build faster

Artillery! King of the battlefield. Esp mortars and 155mm equiv. And uh the west just doesn't make shells anymore. They're winding up production but years into the war they literally can't compete. US production is currently about half a million a year, and they have ambitious aims to double that...

Aircraft have a more strategic role and are basically machines that give cruise missiles a little boost. There might be some alteration to the formula with the large amount of stealth airframes in western inventories but they simply don't carry enough poundage! Because what really matters is

Construction capacity has colossal value. In addition to providing for solid static defenses that can be held with little manpower swiftly, it allows for repair on infrastructure etc.

Most tactical air is drones now, so ability to make drones allows for flexibility in that space

The lessons from the UKR war are;

Precision weapons are nice but not sustainable. Most infrastructure you can hit can be replaced for less investment than the operation of the platform and delivery system. Probable strategic value in total war but ...

Imagine trying to tame a bear and instead of using idk fuckin honey and cages and traps or whatever you strip down and try to bare knuckle box it into submission. The west still has advantages they could leverage for relevance.

Slightly facetious comment there, English speaking historiography has been contorted to tell a story of WW2 where the English held back the Nazi tide till the Americans could come and clean them up. A Soviet Union with agency and a China existing are awkward problems with that tale

Because like you need to know the lessons of the past to stop yourself repeating them! Even if you're sympathetic to the teutonic attempt to conquer the soviet union isn't it better to have a more grounded understanding of why that attempt failed?