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While China is preparing for annexation of Taiwan in 2028.
There is a lesson in Ukraine and Iran being that invading a prepared country isn't easy and takes full commitment. Taiwan is most likely very prepared to defend itself.
I'm not sure if the West has that kind of cash to dish out after the current war with IRAN.
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Oil itself is becoming irrelevant quickly. It's a play for becoming king of the ashes.
This is simply not true by most objective metrics... unless you don't like plastic and fertilizer?
This whole war has already been a weird suicide ritual when it comes to American soft power. I guess hard power is next. The American Empire, burnt down by its own Nero/Caligula hybrid, while the population just watches it happen...
I guess now would be a good time for China to make its move on you-know-who.
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Looking at all Americans in deceiving. For starters, 1/5 are below the voting age. 49.8% of voters voted for this.
Yeah, most people who voted, voted for Trump.
A more accurate claim might be "More people voted for Trump in 2024 than any other candidate".
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I guess now would be a good time for China to make its move on you-know-who.
I'm starting to believe that China isn't going to make the move. It's winning the hearts and minds of the rest of the world and will be able to leverage its growing soft power well beyond what Taiwan would provide. I just don't see them giving up the position the US has abandoned.
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I guess now would be a good time for China to make its move on you-know-who.
I'm starting to believe that China isn't going to make the move. It's winning the hearts and minds of the rest of the world and will be able to leverage its growing soft power well beyond what Taiwan would provide. I just don't see them giving up the position the US has abandoned.
That's something the factions in the Middle East miss: sometimes great change comes from patiently applying pressure and infiltrating from within, rather than a frontal attack.
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I guess now would be a good time for China to make its move on you-know-who.
I'm starting to believe that China isn't going to make the move. It's winning the hearts and minds of the rest of the world and will be able to leverage its growing soft power well beyond what Taiwan would provide. I just don't see them giving up the position the US has abandoned.
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I'm starting to believe that China isn't going to make the move. It's winning the hearts and minds of the rest of the world and will be able to leverage its growing soft power well beyond what Taiwan would provide. I just don't see them giving up the position the US has abandoned.
China's better move rn would be to go for the big soft power play and ditch the Russians for the abandoned Europeans.
Still, the war is very complete, pretty much, according to the most powerful man in charge of the most powerful military...practically every day since day 3. Was there ever a plan or even a goal? So now the US is spending more of its own vital weapons, which will leave Taiwan largely undefended on a war without goals and without end. China must be laughing about. Once all these US weapons have been squandered on an u…
There was. Decapitation strike -> ??? -> Regime change.
Anyone who said this plan was stupid was fired.
The regime's war on DEI is more a war against Dissent, Ethics, and Intelligence.