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Maybe by the US thug of a government?
Yes, a thug that has to spend all of its military money defending other countries..so they can throw it back in their face that they don't spend as much on the military. Without the US, the world would be fucked.
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It certainly doesn't help that Europe, particularly France, has spent the past two decades selling China the weapons and tech to do the invasion. That said, Taiwan is a country of roughly similar population and economic clout as Australia. Standing by and ignoring an act of war on that scale would be devastating to international stability (and US security interests).
I would imagine that the precedent the US would set with not honoring is defense agreement would have enormous repercussions for its relationship and bargaining power with both South Korea and Japan. That would tip the balance towards US intervention.
Ron Paul's take on this from few month ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KudfRyn3ZbA interesting to watch it now, where will this lead to, and what is the strategic goal here?
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I would imagine that the precedent the US would set with not honoring is defense agreement would have enormous repercussions for its relationship and bargaining power with both South Korea and Japan. That would tip the balance towards US intervention.
If the US and NATO in general let Taiwan fall, it would pretty much guarantee Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand to start nuclear programs.
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Your GDP numbers are wrong. The gap is factor 2-3.
Wave if you're old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis!
In the 1980s I talked with a guy who had been a landing-craft driver for the Army in the early 1960s. His unit was sent down the Intercoastal Waterway to pick up an armored division in Florida. Fortunately for all, the tanks stayed on dry ground, and landing craft went back north.
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The internet tells me you're Canadian. That is close enough to have a bias. Look at the world from a different point of view, and you would understand that corruption is everywhere, not just in China. Some people are just better at hiding it.
> corruption is everywhere, not just in China If the famous US corruption cases, like Flint, have taught me anything, it's that corruption in US is on much lower level than in countries like Russia or China, and people and media are much, much less tolerant to it. Basically, Flint scandal could never happen in Russia because no one would ever give a fuck.
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Maybe by the US thug of a government?
Yes, a thug that has to spend all of its military money defending other countries..so they can throw it back in their face that they don't spend as much on the military. Without the US, the world would be fucked.
I wonder what people did before the US existed? I imagine they were all hurtling towards some political, moral and cultural black hole.