[grayhatter]

> we can only go to war with the equipment we have and will struggle to produce any more equipment in a short period of time. No more uniforms, no more tanks, no more drones, no more missiles, no more artillery shells, no more medicine, etc, because all the materials for those things are largely sourced from Asia, which would now under a blockade.

So if instead all of these weren't sourced from exclusively Asia, and were sourced from many different countries, including domestically, there wouldn't be a problem?

Also, is your assertion really that US military would be at a near term disadvantage, if exports from Asia stopped? That's a wild take.

> They would probably blockade Japan and other countries as well to keep them from exporting to the US, because that's the smart thing to do

You're the first person to try to convince me that it would be smart for China to start a world war with the US and it's allies over Taiwan.

Needless to say, I disagree that it would be smart, I disagree that china would be willing and likely to do it, and disagree they could do it if they actually tried.