[whimsicalism]

China can just send cruise missiles to start and ignore beaches.

A major power with 1.2 billion people can take an island of 20 million 80 miles away from its shores.

[Apocryphon]

If they want to make a desert and call it peace, perhaps. Seems like a bad strategy to smash a crown jewel before you annex it.

[intrasight]

They will take it without a fight

[Apocryphon]

That simple sentence is doing a lot of heavy dodging to ignore all of the points brought up in the post upthread about the inherent difficulties involved in naval landings.

Now, if you're going to say economic pressures will lead to political settlements without conflict, then that's a discussion to be had.

[tlear]

Putin called he needs your brilliant strategic advice. 1 week to Kyiv or was it 2 days? I can't recall. This kind nationalistic PRC BS is how they will start a war, get defeated than have another civil war with 100 million dead.