• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Just part of the dance. We’ll sell Taiwan another couple billion dollars of weaponry on schedule as always.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Of course, Americans would love to turn Taiwan into another Ukraine, but I doubt you’ll get your ghoulish wish in the end.

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        I’m sure that Taiwanese people all want to be under CCP’s rule instead, right? After imperialist Japanese colonisation, KMT dictatorship, and the fight for democracy, surely the majority would want to give that all up in exchange for dictatorship. That makes so much sense!

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        Taiwan doesn’t want China to invade, so they buy weapons from the US and other countries, and also have developed domestic missiles to strike at Chinese cities in case of invasion.

        Don’t know what to tell you.

        If anything Ukraine has hardened the Taiwanese stance, and showed them what an ounce of prevention is worth. I expect the next order of weapons to be even larger, because nobody actually wants another Ukraine.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_arms_sales_to_Taiwan

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          If you think Taiwan has any chance of doing anything in a war scenario you are out high with copium in the stratosphere and you are becoming delirious, it would be one of the shortest wars of all time. Simply proposing this scenario is a clear indication of how deep rooted the industrial military complex propaganda of the US has invaded people in the first world. Hope the collapse of your empire doesn’t hurt too much on your privileged ego.

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            Taiwan has at least 1 anti ship missile for every Chinese vessel and 1 anti air missile for every Chinese aircraft, and this just from US-supplied weaponry(I encourage you to read the Wikipedia article above). Taiwan also has hundreds of domestic missiles that can hit as far as Wuhan, and at least 50(and more coming) that can hit Beijing.

            You say Taiwan can’t do anything in a war, but this certainly seems like a lot of something. Propaganda or no, things tend to explode when you shoot missiles at them.

            That said, certainly China would eventually succeed in invading Taiwan(barring foreign intervention), however China knows the cost of invasion and is not willing to pay it, so Taiwan keeps buying more weapons to ensure the price remains high for China.

            Were it not the case, China would have invaded by now.

            So instead China is doing slow diplomacy and hoping sentiment in the Taiwanese govt and people trend towards unification.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          We’ll just wait and see what happens in the next election in Taiwan won’t we. DPP isn’t exactly popular last I checked, and once US loses its puppet regime then the whole gig is up.

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            1 year ago

            once US loses its puppet regime then the whole gig is up

            Were you born yesterday or something? DPP and KMT alternate the presidency like musical chairs, similar to the republicans vs democrats in the US. At least people in Taiwan can vote lol. That’s more than I can say about their angry neighbour. Sorry to be thriving I guess, I hope one day you’ll get the help you need and finally get over the fact that most Taiwanese people prefer freedom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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              1 year ago

              >Company owns the same 2 brands of shit flavoured soda
              >You can choose between donkey's diarrhea and cow's bloody fecal matter

              >Freedom

              Being able to choose between two parties that represent the same group of people is not freedom, is just theatrics so that incredulous people like you can whine when people decide they don’t want to do things as white western people told them to.

          • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            I like how you refer to the fact most Taiwanese people want to either retain the current situation or gain further independence as a “gig”. Strong tankie vibes.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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              I like you pretend to speak for Taiwanese people without having a clue about internal politics of Taiwan and the effect of influence US there via things like NED. 🤡

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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                  1 year ago

                  What does that prove exactly, there are obviously lots of people in Taiwan who simp the west. US spent vast amounts of money cultivating them.

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                    1 year ago

                    It’s true that Taiwan is full of burger simps, but they’re a lot easier for libs to believe than any amount of evidence. Anecdotes aren’t evidence, but they have a way of making people their better than evidence.

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                1 year ago

                I’m just telling you what polls of the Taiwanese population are indicating, however you don’t seem at all interested in that, because you’d rather send in the tanks.

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                  The polls of the Taiwanese population are indicating that US backed DPP is crashing while KMT that wants to repatriate is polling high, however you don’t seem at all interested in that, because you’re a shill for the empire.