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I dont disagree with that but i was trying to illustrate a point - be it 20 or 50 or even 100 there are certain things that america has that china dosnt have and will never have.
Complete road and rail infrustructure;
a fully armed civilian population;
thousands of the best jet fighters;
thousands of nuclear weapons;
at least 20-30 delta submarines that cruise the oceans of the world, their location not known by anyone in the world other than the people on board the submarine all armed with about 20 nuclear warheads each;
10 operational or near operational air craft carriers - which has been up to 15 at one point;
thousands of the best tanks;
military training vis-a-vis their troops esp. special forces, delta, rangers, navy seals etc.
i mean to compile a list isnt even sensible.
Look at it this way - currentlly america spends a little of 50% of the total world expenditure on military & warfare and that represents about 2-4% of america's GDP. In wartime scenarios military expenditure can jump to 20% of GDP quite easily. In WW2 it jumped far beyond that. THat would equate to (at a 20% jump) america spending 5 times more than the rest of the whole world put together. to match that china would need to grow its economy by like 9 trillion +4%(x20) (like 20 trillion or something), in 20 years.
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