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No. of Recommendations: 3
With our political parties at each others throats, a new budget deadline looming, no Speaker of the House, presidential wannabes sniping at each other, funding for Ukraine being questioned, already depleted US ammo reserves, and now the Hamas attack on Israel, seems like the perfect climate for the Chicoms to make a move on Taiwan.
No. of Recommendations: 2
With our political parties at each others throats, a new budget deadline looming, no Speaker of the House, presidential wannabes sniping at each other, funding for Ukraine being questioned, already depleted US ammo reserves, and now the Hamas attack on Israel, seems like the perfect climate for the Chicoms to make a move on Taiwan.
Will they wake Biden up to tell him?
No. of Recommendations: 1
China won't do any such thing.
The Google Jockeys had links all those years about how giving China Permanent Normalized Trade Relations, will open china up and it'll be more democratic and less hostile.
Yeah, it's a good time for China to make a run.
It's a Blue City after all -- young people are miserable, without hope, or employment.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Yeah, it's a good time for China to make a run.
They'll shoot up some Philippine Navy or Coast Guard patrol ships first, then make some more unsafe high speed passes across US recon planes.
No. of Recommendations: 1
BHM: seems like the perfect climate for the Chicoms to make a move on Taiwan.
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I doubt it, their foreign minister is headed over here this month.
No. of Recommendations: 1
While it would be a tempting time for China to do it --- they do know that if it escalated into conflict, a "win" would be defined as both China and America being drained beyond recognition and that's perhaps not their endgame.
IN the end.....China will take Taiwan the way you always take a country: THRU THEIR LIBERALS AND NOBLES.
The academics, Big Business folk....will be bought or lulled into allowing a de facto Chinese takeover.
No different than here in America: It's the Liberals and Club 401K'ers who were fine with giving away sovereignty, and want to give away even more.
If you want to take over a country, do it thru their Liberals. Their Snobs. Their Sellouts.
And also do it by pitting one tribe against another. European Empires did that to ancient civilizations with great success. Now, as America stops being a country, and is visibly becoming tribal, we already see foreign powers using one tribe over the other.
Yes, you people and your "democracy!" is heading downward, it will never ever improve. Hope you can level off at best.
