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If there is a major conventional conflict [state versus state] involving the US, its subs will just about win the war on their own. I don't think the Chinese have anything to match them.



With that said, it is an equalizer to the Iran situation given that the Persian Gulf offers up a soft, sandy bed for a Boomer to nap easily upont for 6 months at at time. The brinksmanship between the US and Iran is especially provacative in this sense, and in these times. I'm familiar with Iranian immigrants to the U.S. who've intimated to me that the general Iranian population is far more agreeable to U.S. philosophies and positions than not. There are U.S boomers parked off of Iran right now, where they will remain until this mess is resolved, have not doubt about that. Of course, this security offers up an amazing amount of leeway for say, a dipshit American president to push his goofy-ass agenda, but I digress . . . .

China can make my disposable camera, Nike's, and mountain bike, but they ain't gonna do shit beyond that, just ask Pericles.