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slibhbyesterday at 8:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

He keeps citing China but the US isn't at war with China. For the wars that the US is fighting, i.e. against Iran and similarly equipped adversaries, the f-35 seems to be performing well.


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bawolffyesterday at 9:09 PM

Yeah, but the war drums are beating for it.

USA is shifting focus to china in lots of their policy documents

China is massively building up arms

Lots of talk about a potential invasion of taiwan at some point.

Its clearly something war planners are worried about.

TimorousBestieyesterday at 8:50 PM

A potential Chinese-American hot war is the conflict that today’s USAF and USSF should be preparing for.

Winning sub-peer conflicts is fine for projecting hard power (when it works...) and protecting allies (when you have them...) but it doesn’t really budge the needle on national security.

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