World’s five most powerful countries pledge to avoid war

[Han Patriot]

This is just your personal opinion.
It is true that China's economic capacity is stronger than Russia. However, Russia's military capability is stronger than that of China, which is recognized by the world.
You can view the ranking of any military media.

Russia except for a few strategic weapons is pretty much dead. They are clinging on to the last remnants of the Soviet dividend.

 

[El Sidd]

What about the other 3 declared nuclear powers?

Israel, India and Iran.

These 5 powers must do more to stop these suicidal countries who harbour not only nuclear capabilities but lust on reviving some long lost mythical civilisations.

 

[reflecthofgeismar]

Butthurt about what. I already agreed that the Taliban defeated the US like they did with Russia before No country's military can take on the mujahideen. Lol The Chinese will suffer an even worse fate if they ever fought the Taliban I guess. Taliban superpower.

People here really think that Taliban destroyed much military US/Western equipment and killed many soldiers.

They don't understand that a modern Nazi-Germany would just shoot 1.000 Afghans (males in military age for the beginning) for every PARTISAN attack and burn whole villages until nobody who behaves not as the Germans wish - is burned or burried.

America could COVENTIONALLY eradicate little Taliban and their "civilian" supporters with ease without their hand-tied-behind-the-back-fighting-ROE.
Taliban killed most civilians in this overexpensive colonial skirmish and didn't need to REALLY fight coalitan forces.
From time to time, without uniform they plant a IED and filmed the big boom and yelling their BS.
Only fight directly for Propaganda, when they got caught they were killed like cattle.
Afghanistan itself isn't a unified country with a central (puppet) government. They have tribal-loyality and love killing each other.
Ethnic group vs ethnic group, religious group vs religious group, goat herder and boy toucher vs opium farmer.
Sadly for the ordinary Afghans who wanna only live THEIR life and are at maximum pragmatic to choose temporary one or the other side (who wouldn't do that when we were in the same situation?)

Funny thing.
Americans got the message that ANA "soldiers" (Taliban supporters) gave weapons to the "holy warriors", so they (Murricans) made more inspections to watch for that.
THEN ANA "soldiers" RENT weapons to Taliban for the amount of time and got them back before US inspector came.

Just a finger snip, 2 weeks maximum and not one goat in Afghanistan would be alive. Delusional people.

Same goes for Israeli/Palestinian issue.
"If the Arabs could as the Israelis, no Israeli would be left."

 

[Shotgunner51]

I would put Russia and China as equals, not either better than the other.

PLAN is superior to Russian Navy.

Russian Aerospace Forces are superior to PLAAF for offense since they have much better strike planes.

I think China might have matched Russia in space military/ISR, ballistic defence, AI, tactical forces (including naval surface combatants) but not yet in strategic navy/air force.

Russian Navy underwater fleet is still top class, say the Yasen SSN and Borei SSBN are no less potent than their current gen of counterparts in PLAN aka 093 SSN, 094 SSBN. The Belgorod (deep-sea engineering mothership) and Poseidon 2M39 are also some new concept weapons or potentially even game changers.

Yes in terms of strategic airforce PLAAF is still lagging behind Russian peers. Y-20 is good but lack in numbers as well as awaiting WS-20 turboshafts. The gap in bomber fleet is even bigger, Russia operates Tu-160 while PLAAF counts on H-6, which though has modernized powerplant, avionics & arsenal, the vintage design limits its strategic capabilities. Tu-160 is a good weapon but I think PLAAF should walk a different path and go for subsonic stealth (aka H-20), and keep H-6 only as standoff strike platform.