General Discussion

Their preparations are mostly naval and anti-naval in nature, as those will be the critical force projecting tools. And frankly, it sounds like where our naval forces are positioned isn't going to make much of a difference anyway. The Dotard won't try to stop them (and many other PsOTUS would not either) because there is no appetite for tens of thousands of dead American sailors on top of losing basically all microchip manufacturing; they'd rather smile and make nice to keep access to chips in the short term.