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[–] BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I'd put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there's been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don't know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.

[–] fanbois@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

An open conflict between the US and china would probably end with exactly zero winners and an uninhabitable glowing piece of rock orbiting the sun. Maybe the cockroaches can then find a better path to communism.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

probably depends on whose soil it's on and whether or not it's a proxy war and/or world war.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 hours ago

Buddy, I could tell you that based on the fact that they've lost every single war they've been in since WWII.