Theoretically speaking, how powerful would CSAT be if it was a real rival to NATO? In both economically and militarily?
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Easton Martin
Thomas Sanchez
If both Russia and China decided to support Iran with everything they have, then they could dominate the Middle East. Of course they don't really have anything to win from that. After all, the USA is only playing in that sandboc because the Zionist lobby is incredibly strong, and the Wahhabists are also a force to be reckoned with. I doubt that China needs any help to colonize Africa, if anything they don't want any outside influences disturbing their work, and so they'd gain nothing from this alliance there. South America is the part of the world that exists, but nobody knows how to use it for anything significant, so this alliance woulnd't do anything there. Russia wants to be the big bad bear of Europe, and China wants to be the great dragon of East Asia, therefore they aren't in direct confontration as of now, but they aren't natural allies. All in all, this would be the kind of alliance that only exists on paper. NATO is the military administration of the USA in Europe, so it's really a different kind of "alliance".
William Gomez
Russia isn't part of CSAT (cut from game), they only support them with arms deals but otherwise remained neutral.
Samuel Ramirez
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That's what happens when your brain is on too much MSM, you miss some critical events happening in the world.
Gabriel Wood
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Camden Brooks
So it's Iran with China? I don't see why would this alliance work, China could get their oil from other sources that promise less trouble.
Leo Long
It's not just Iran and China, basically 80% of Asia including all the bad goy nations and several South American & African countries are members. It's also implied that some mainly eastern european countries dropped out of NATO and joined CSAT prior to Arma3.
China basically has most-if-not-all of the big arabian oil countries on its side.
BI is rather unsubtle in forcing CSAT as the pure evil
Austin Bell
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Carson Cook
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Aaron Perez
A military alliance implies that the countries are agreeing to some sort of mutual protection against nation-state level adversaries. India would never declare war on another country just because that country declared war on China or Russia, and I highly doubt China would ever come to the defense of Russia.
William Powell
China doesn't do alliance, for them you need an enemy to have an alliance.
And everyone knows China has no enemies so all China can have is military cooperation.
In non-Chinese bullshit it just mean they're not dumb enough to publicly announce an alliance so the US can't paint them as the aggressor. But if you think that nearly all echelons are cooperating, that chief of staffs and defense ministers are regularly meeting and that troops everywhere are drilling together for shit and giggles you're in for a rude awakening.
It's continental empires VS maritime empires all over again.
Luis Perez
If that's what you consider an "alliance," then America has alliances with 90% of the countries on the planet.
Tyler Gutierrez
Which is why everyone is saying america is an empire and not a country and why Russia China and cie are convinced you're gonna go democracy them in their sleep one night.
Congratulation you've achieved self-awareness.
Liam Sanchez
But I'm saying it's not the case that America is allied with 90% of the countries on the planet. We conduct joint military drills with a bunch of African countries. Does that mean the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo is going to automatically join any wars America starts? Similarly, India isn't going to do shit to defend China (especially given that India and China are competitors in many ways), and China isn't going to destroy their economy to protect Russia.
Jayden Anderson
You do know you made a coup in RDC to installed a puppet government, that is still in place last time I checked.
Of course if America was involved in an actual war they would send troops. If the US don't survive they get their heads on spikes.
Dylan Collins
Doubtful. "Conducted a few exercises together" and "leaders made nice statements about each other for the cameras" does not equate to "will fight for each other."
Caleb Clark
Does Bhutan ever do anything?
Ian Moore
Nah, Chinks cucked them out of their typical route of conquering Tibet, and without Tibet they don't have access to Nepal. This is why their king has this bittersweet expression.
Landon Thomas
On the plus side: their population is about 800 000, but their armed forces have more than 16 000 soldiers, therefore a bit more than 2% of their population is armed in peace time. And they spend 1.8% of their GDP on defence. All in all, Bhutan seems to be more ready for war than most European countries.
Nolan Reed
That's quite interesting. How many other small Asian countries are as prepared as Buhtan? Nepal, I assume, would be one but what are some others?
Asher Green
Idk if Nepal counts but they've gone through quite a bit of strife with the civil war. Maybe Laos/Cambodia/Singapore/East Timor? It's the only country the size of Butan ish
I'd guess cambodia cause the vietnamense kept invading them sooo
John Rivera
They booted a bunch of Nepali people out of their country.
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