

Absolutely. All that “peaceful coexistence” bullshit is just to cover that their military is not strong enough. That blog article doesn’t even attempt to analyze the current PLA’s military capabilities, let along compare the PLA’s military capabilities to what the US has or what the SU had.
This is a persistent problem of leftist analysis. They pretty much do not analyze things from a military perspective, ceding the ground to “Anglo Jews invented globohomo and installed the Anglo Jew agent Lenin after overthrowing Saint Nicholas the last man standing against the globohomo menace” reactionaries and “that slightly large explosion was actually multiple tactical nukes going off at once in a successful attempt to prevent the enemy from setting off their own tactical nukes” cranks. The Russian SMO enjoyer crowd is full of these dipshits, but how is the left doing in comparison?
Radlib types are allergic to anything concerning hard power, preferring to squander Marxist analysis on literary critique of Marvel slop. Class reductionist types chant “no war but the class war” without having read a single text on how to effectively wage warfare. ML types only concern themselves with economic analysis, forgetting that there’s more to hard power than the economy. I see reading lists from ML orgs and few of them incorporate texts on revolutionary warfare. The only part of the left that is at least semi-serious about military matters are various anarchists, largely through the dissemination and study of COIN manuals. Too bad for various reasons, anarchists are suckered in by NATO narratives, but credit where credit is due, at least they realize that military matters is something worth studying.






Insurgency side:
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There’s also classical text like On War by Clausewitz.