This ancient military strategist's theory of war, that no country should start or engage in a war unless it is sure of winning, is perennial and continues to be relevant today, to all military forces and countries. Why fight a war that one cannot win? China has learnt from this strategy and has avoided war since Mao successfully reunited China and started on a journey to rebuild a modern China. Mao knew that China was weak in all fronts, and it would be a losing proposition for China to engage in any war with any countries.
China still could not avoid wars since the founding of the PRC. There were wars that were forced upon China, along its borders, not initiated by China by threatened by external powers to destabilise and weaken China. The Korean War was the worst war that was forced upon China, a war that China could not afford to fight and likely to lose. Mao took the drastic decision to enter the war like a lose or die decision. The Americans were at the peak of their military might. China then was about the poorest and weakest nation on earth. Under all circumstances, and contrary to Sun Tzu's strategy of war, Mao must not be involved in the Korean War. It was a losing proposition from the start. It was a stroke of genius and true grit that China could fight the Americans to a draw, actually beating the Americans by driving them from its border at the Yalu River to the 38th parallel, with minimal and antique weaponry. China was trading lives with bullets and stayed in the war until a ceasefire that both sides have to concede without a clear victory.
China was involved in a few border wars or skirmishes with Russia, India and Vietnam. All were short border wars that lasted less than a month. China fought and pushed out the invaders, then withdrew and disengaged. Other than the border war with Vietnam where China was superior militarily, the wars with Russia and India were not wars that China could win easily against better armed enemies. China would have avoided all these wars if it had a choice. Never fight a war unless sure of winning.
The Americans, since it became the world's number one superpower did live by Sun Tzu's above strategy. In many cases America was right. In the Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghan and Iraq War, Americans were sure of winning these wars as they were militarily and economically more superior than their enemies and winning was more or less guaranteed. Though the results did not speak well for the Americans, their starting points were the same. They fought and could win and should win.
Then came the Ukraine War. This is the biggest blunder of the American Washington clowns. This is an obvious case of a war they cannot win. They may think that the combined forces of the Americans and allies would easily defeat the Russians. Still, they cannot win if they think deeper. They can win a conventional war against the Russians, but Russia is a nuclear power and would release their nuclear arsenal against the Americans and the Europeans should they be defeated conventionally. Only the really reckless, irresponsible and dumb clowns in Washington cannot think of this. Unfortunately, they are still thinking that they can win against the Russians. This is how dangerous the world has become, when reckless clowns are in charge of national affairs. Just like Mickey Mouse states provoking China and thinking they can get away from it.
And the Washington clowns are preparing another war they cannot win, this time against China. Over and over again, they have repeated their wargames against China, conventional war, but cannot win. Still, they are bent on starting a losing war with China, knowing very well that they will be the losers and they will have to resort to using nuclear weapons against China. Would they win a nuclear war against China? These dumb clowns think China would be sitting there waiting for them to nuke and bury China without reacting. The dumb and irresponsible clowns are not only risking the lives of the Chinese, the lives of the Americans and the whole world would be on the table, to be wiped out in one instance. China may not have as many nuclear weapons as the American terrorists, but enough to finish the Americans as well.
Still, the Washington clowns are at it, planning and preparing for a war they cannot win. And they are dragging other silly countries into this war of total destruction, the end of civilisation. Stupidity cannot be cure. The dumb asses in Washington cannot be taught. Mickey Mouse also cannot be taught.
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