“And they think their 350 is worth anything?”

[u/GoldenStitch2]

[u/Charming-Comfort-395]

Don’t these idiots realize that 350 million people is still a lot of people

[u/AJ_Dali → u/Charming-Comfort-395]

And even if they somehow can't comprehend simple numbers, our worth is literally defined by GDP. We have the highest in the world. As for per capitia we're still in first place. So each of our 350 million citizens is worth over $60k vs the not even $20k of China. India doesn't even break $5000. I'm not mentioning Africa because that idiot doesn't seem to comprehend that it's a continent and not a country.

So to answer their question, they're worth 3-12 times more. It's very simple math.

[u/kakiu000 → u/Charming-Comfort-395]

and those 350 millions are about 100x more productive than the 850 millions in Africa

[u/EmperorSnake1]

So 350 million people are worthless to them?

Why do they think every word that comes from their mouths is an “own”? It just constantly shows how stupid they are every time.

Remember, same people would go crazy about how amazing and creative North Koreans are.

[u/HeirAscend]

Dataset so old that India has a lower population than China lmao

[u/rationis]

Half a billion Chinese got their ass kicked by 72m Japanese in WW2. Also noteworthy is that these same people are likely pro Ukraine, a country of just 37m who is giving a country of 140m a tough fight with higher losses. Not to mention, when you have an alleged population of 1.4b people but dont have a blue water navy, how the hell are you going to threaten the country who has successfully waged war on two fronts and across the two largest oceans?

Now for the "alleged" population rabbit hole:

There is very good reason to believe that the actual Chinese population is a fraction of what they claim. Just using math and the CCP's fertility and migration data, the Chinese population should be around 660m today, assuming the population claim of 981m in 1980 is accurate. I encourage anyone skeptical to just plug in Chinese population data into Grok or GPT. From 980m in 1980 to 1.4b in 2025, it simply boils down to a mathematical impossibilty in a xenophobic country with a net negative migration rate of 0.022-0.024.

That's the BEST case scenario, but it relies on CCP data, which we know is cooked at all levels. Lei(Lei's Real Talk) claims that the actual fertility rate was 1.3 since 1980, and thus, the actual population figure is less than 500m.

When you incentivize local officials to lie about fertility rates by tying career advancement and bonuses to achieving strict population control targets, yet cap couples at 1 child for nearly 40 years, expect the data to be inflated. So the heads of CCP might not even be intentionally lying about the fertility rate, but because they incentivized local official to lie about birthrate, they were fed inflated fertility data for 40 years.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

[u/MiceTonerAccount]

The largest and most developed military in the world is a great equalizer

[u/NotaInfiltrator → u/MiceTonerAccount]

The unfortunate fact of the matter is that the US military has atrophied significantly over the past two decades and the repeated failures (real or percieved) in the middle east has led to an image of weakness to most of the international community.

[u/Fuzzy_Buzzard88 → u/NotaInfiltrator]

The failures were political, not military. Our military is a far more effective killing machine than any other on earth, and proves it every time they go to war… and that’s with the idiotic ROEs that politicians put in place to make themselves feel better.

What failed was the attempt at nation building after the targeted regimes were toppled. Politicians and diplomats own that, not the military.

If you look at the casualty numbers…

US vs Korea: 36,574 US to over 1 million Korean

US vs Vietnam: 58,220 US to 1-2 million VC

US vs Iraq (Desert Storm): 382 US to 20-26k Iraqi

US vs Afghanistan: 6,200 US to 53k Afghan/Jihadi

US vs Iraq (OIF): 4600 US to 180k-200k Iraqi/Insurgent

[u/Empirednw1555 → u/Fuzzy_Buzzard88]

This is cope. Our military sucks and will get owned by China.

[u/Fuzzy_Buzzard88 → u/Empirednw1555]

The same China that can’t even keep their boats from running into each other while trying to intimidate civilian vessels at sea? Sure, buddy. Stick to video games.

[u/Empirednw1555 → u/Fuzzy_Buzzard88]

Uh American military planes crash every day.

[u/Empirednw1555 → u/NotaInfiltrator]

Our military is now a complete joke. At the very least it won’t be as effective as a tool for Israel.

[u/NightOfTheLongMops]

Tell me more about how the USA oppresses everyone. Be as specific as possible

[u/red_the_room]

And yet that 350 million live in the wealthiest country in history. Weird.

[u/Cheap_Owl8970]

I think we should stop paying all foreign aide, and just take care of our debt. Let’s see them come back begging for help.

[u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2]

They sure acted like we were worth something when we told Africa to start feeding itself.

They sure acted like we were worth something when we told Europe to start defending itself.

[u/bozoconnors]

It's funny... because their opinion is not only ridiculously, shockingly ignorant, but assuming they're living in one of those locales, it's... in almost every conceivable facet... worth exponentially magnitudes less than any one of ours.

[u/Shadeylark]

Quality over quantity