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		JumpCrisscross 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela > deploy submarines which could attack offenders While letting U.S. kit paint the submarines they'll presumably want to use on Taiwan. > fast develop large quantity of ocean attack drones This is plausible. (Still not worth it for Beijing. But doable.)

seanmcdirmid 15 days ago [–]

They could sell on credit submarines, drones, and so on to Venezuela, along with some training. They could even make it into a war by proxy, but asymmetrical by the Chinese themselves? They have too much to lose to do that these days.

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