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HempKat

Just A Simple Old Dirt Farmer
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most of Chinas tech is stolen from the US, therefore it is not the latest. yeah, i know, they have some good minds on their side too, but if they were as good as us, they would be pulling ahead, which i seriously doubt is the case. in reality, there is no need for them to go in militarily. all off their actions point to a continued bluff , to keep face. they need Taiwan whole and working. destroying the island is not their game plan. they need the products currently made there as much as, if not more so, than the rest of the world does in order to keep their economy moving along.
Near as I can tell from what's been reported, the thing keeping China from moving on Taiwan more then anything else is seeing how the rest of the modern world has reacted to Russia with their invasion of Ukraine. China's doing pretty good on paper right now and they are making a fair bit of progress towards becoming the worlds dominating Superpower. But their economy is pretty fragile and if they got hit with sanctions like Russia did and major companies started leaving China in protest it would really mess up their plans. China is very good at playing the long game and so it makes more sense to just be patient and in the end they'll most likely get everything they want without getting into a major, expensive and destructive conflict, just like they have been doing with Hong Kong. Plus your point about them not wanting to disrupt or damage all the manufacturing in Taiwan is on point.
 

Petrochemical

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Three Berries

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China will not advance on Taiwan until Russia is done in Ukraine. And as the MSM media will not report on it as it is, we won't know until it happens. Other news sources discuss the ongoing negotiations.
 

Three Berries

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I was reading today the Russian yearly defense budget is ~$70B US and the US has nearly spent that much just throwing away their money there.
 

Cannavore

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So, it's old news. Thanks for pointing it out. Still manipulative and poor quality "journalism.".
it's only manipulative if you're a conspiracy theorist who thinks they're some crisis actors or some nonsense.





Members of the territorial defence force attend a training simulation for raiding a building occupied by enemy forces as they prepare for new assault, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at an abandoned building in Sumy, Ukraine April 15, 2022. Picture taken April 15, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
 

Petrochemical

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it's only manipulative if you're a conspiracy theorist who thinks they're some crisis actors or some nonsense.





Members of the territorial defence force attend a training simulation for raiding a building occupied by enemy forces as they prepare for new assault, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at an abandoned building in Sumy, Ukraine April 15, 2022. Picture taken April 15, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Who knows dude we might be all be Vulcan my melding each other in one universal language throughout the world here at another 50 years for all we know wouldn't that be scary
 

Montuno

...como el Son...
Nice narrative bro, but fortunately everything that happened and has been said during the last 20 years go in contrary of what you're assuming.
Just for the recall, Finland is neutral for the exact same reasons Russians are invoking toward Ukrainian neutrality. And "Putler" the "asian ogre from the eastern steppes" didn't invade Finland and never showed any sign he wanted to do so.

We can go further through facts and declarations, but don't think you will like what will be said and reported.
The fantasy of an "invasive" Russia is just that. Fantasy.


...This... Finland and Sweden are part of the EU: to attack them is to attack the European Union.
...And until recently, the UK, with all its implications, was part of...
And...Could you list all the sovereign countries that Putin has invaded?
And is there any article of international law that allows the invasion of any country that is considering joining NATO?
And if the fact of considering joining NATO, allows and justifies being invaded by Putin...what do we do with the countries that already belong (and that must be much worse than considering belonging)? Wipe them off the map?
 

Montuno

...como el Son...
hard times means making hard decisions. the situation isn't perfect, but strongmanning russia into submission by using Ukraine as a proxy for the west & nato doesn't seem like it's going to work either.

the alternative is a global nuclear conflict is it not? i have not heard any other solution to this situation other than keep pumping Ukraine with guns and money and potentially ushering them into NATO.


weird that you guys don't say anything about Saudi Arabia or Israel using USA dollars and weapons to commit genocide in Yemen and apartheid in Palestine lol.

That is not true and you know it.
But if in this thread we have come to analyze and criticize even the Spanish weapons that Saudi Arabia uses in Yemen...
 
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