China is America's Military Equal Now Marine General Warns

Thursday, April 30, 2026

he general in charge of keeping the United States Marine Corps sustained in a fight dismisses the notion that China poses a near-peer threat to the U.S. It's far more serious and will make the currently paused conflict with Iran pale by comparison should the two superpowers come to blows, said Lt. Gen. Stephen Sklenka, the USMC Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics. "There is no threat that looms larger than the People's Republic of China," Sklenka said during the 2026 Modern Day Marine Expo in Washington, D.C. "Don't listen to this garbage about them being a near peer. They're a peer because they rival us in nearly every single measure of national influence."

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If China fights a war it will involve a place, time, and conditions most advantageous to itself.
Not complicated, but contrast that with Vietnam, MAGAJeebus' Forever War, etc.
Sycophancy could be a weakness militarily, as it is in any authoritarian regime.
The Chinese, however, rarely reward idiocy.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-04-30 01:12 PM | Reply

And China is secretly sending Iran missiles and establishing space tracking stations in South America.

Since 2000, China suffered less than one hundred military casualties-- all from border skirmishes with Indian soldiers in the Himalayans where Beijing tested directed-energy weapons (DEW).

Chinese peacekeepers for the UN are spreading goodwill in the Third World and collecting intelligence while Americans are now treated as pariahs.

Meanwhile, the US lost thousands of soldiers killing Muslims all over the Middle East and SW Asia, costing the US trillions of dollars. The PTSD and caring for returning soldiers further drained our coffers.

Instead of helping Ukraine against Vladimir Putin, we are again wasting a fortune and our ammunition stores in a costly Islamophobic misadventure against Iran for the benefit of wealthy Israel which offers top notch universal healthcare for its residents while we suffer with the BBB.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent ~~priest~~ ally?

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-30 01:29 PM | Reply