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Dreddout posted:Cuba has lasted 3 decades without the USSR, I'd be surprised if Taiwan lasted 3 years without the US for the following reasons. 6. taiwan is completely dependent on imports for basically all of its energy, so a couple of weeks of blockade and they couldn't even keep the lights on anymore Maximo Roboto posted:Personally I think the whole "Taiwan will have significant resistance to occupation" idea is wishful thinking from anti-invasion perspectives. How long has it been since the ROC has fought a war? lol at imagining the well-fed docile Taiwanese public and declining military as anything resembling the disgruntled unemployed Baathist army or mujahideen insurgents. i like that they give away the game immediately by basically admitting that the real objective of the us in the event of an invasion isn't to defend taiwan's system of government but to bleed china as much as possible
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Mar 25, 2021 11:33
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The insistence that Taiwan has to spend more resources on the military are really strange. Like short of nukes and/or mining the entire island what exactly would that achieve in an actual invasion besides inflating the death count on both sides.
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Mar 25, 2021 11:58
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Junkozeyne posted:The insistence that Taiwan has to spend more resources on the military are really strange. Like short of nukes and/or mining the entire island what exactly would that achieve in an actual invasion besides inflating the death count on both sides. it would achieve spending more on the military
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Mar 25, 2021 12:02
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Junkozeyne posted:The insistence that Taiwan has to spend more resources on the military are really strange. Like short of nukes and/or mining the entire island what exactly would that achieve in an actual invasion besides inflating the death count on both sides. Who is insisting that? US actually just want Taiwan spend more GDP on military (meaning buy more used US weapons) Taiwan is doing exactly the opposite, shorting the drift to 4 months; trying to close down all nuclear power plants and rely heavily on imported natural gas and wind etc.
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Mar 25, 2021 12:11
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stephenthinkpad posted:Who is insisting that? US actually just want Taiwan spend more GDP on military (meaning buy more used US weapons) Yeah I mean the usual think tanks/media echoing of "doing their part". Obviously the MIC pushes for it to make sweet money but I mean what internal justification would Taiwan use if they followed the demands. We need the latest toys because ....?
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Mar 25, 2021 15:26
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:container ships will dock in taiwan and suddenly PLA troops will come pouring out. invasion! the clock is ticking... countdown... to checkmate. listening to all these MIC ghouls harp on about china invading taiwan (which is never going to happen imo) is kinda funny after having lived through america invading afghanistan and iraq and bombing the poo poo out of countless other mideast countries to the point twhere children fear clear blue skies and funding/supplying/advising the saudis commiting genocide yemen and all the hosed up poo poo the cia did in south america but sure were the good guys and JYNA bad it really feels like im watching a slow roll of america starting a war with a loving nuclear power RIP world i guess also as someone not well versed in international politics i view this whole thing as, how would we like it if we had a country that can reasonably be seen as a satellite for an arguably warmongering/hostile nation right on your doorstep? oh wait we nearly started ww3 via cuban nuclear crises Agrajag has issued a correction as of 15:43 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 15:35
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The US head of SouthCom loves talking about stopping Chinese encroachment in Latin America. lol https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/1371826351431421954?s=20 https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/1370412634625949699?s=20
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Mar 25, 2021 15:45
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https://twitter.com/delaparcelas/status/1372272770025918470?s=20
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Mar 25, 2021 15:48
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china is opening the veins of latin america
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Mar 25, 2021 15:51
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dude wtf also that who the gently caress is in that audience laughing at all this??? https://twitter.com/sean_ruairi/status/1369798839335542784?s=20
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Mar 25, 2021 15:52
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Junkozeyne posted:The insistence that Taiwan has to spend more resources on the military are really strange. Like short of nukes and/or mining the entire island what exactly would that achieve in an actual invasion besides inflating the death count on both sides. Maybe a Swiss type system of militarizing the entire populace for guerrilla resistance Agrajag posted:dude wtf also that who the gently caress is in that audience laughing at all this??? lol invading Lebanon- why, to displace Hezbollah? and Somalia because it all worked out so well there last time for U.S. forces
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Mar 25, 2021 16:42
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I watched a recent South American think tank talk. The woman from SA said china made huge inroad in solar power installation because how much the Chinese solar industry has cut down on the cost of solar panels in the last decade. I remember reading a similar news report from Myanmar as well. I think its interesting in 2 ponts 1, the solar electrification is shifting a lot of power from the state to the people, since the state now no longer dictate the rollout of the power grid. Although the state still control road building and rural internet. 2, a real super power actually has huge influence of the future direction of the energy market and the energy price. In case of the US, it was whole new source of oil outside of Middle East from fracking; in case of China, it's the new energy market, including solar and wind.
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Mar 25, 2021 17:39
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Junkozeyne posted:The insistence that Taiwan has to spend more resources on the military are really strange. Like short of nukes and/or mining the entire island what exactly would that achieve in an actual invasion besides inflating the death count on both sides. yes, that's the point
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Mar 25, 2021 17:49
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Agrajag posted:dude wtf also that who the gently caress is in that audience laughing at all this??? well it wasn't 5 years but they managed to do it, well done
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Mar 25, 2021 17:55
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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3127051/biden-pledges-prevent-china-becoming-worlds-leading-countryquote:Biden pledges to prevent China from becoming the world’s ‘leading’ country hell ya
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Mar 26, 2021 03:03
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paul_soccer12 posted:https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3127051/biden-pledges-prevent-china-becoming-worlds-leading-country US trying to desperately cling to superpower status combined with climate change will define the next couple decades. it will not be good
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Mar 26, 2021 03:07
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it might be
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Mar 26, 2021 03:08
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i hope its good
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Mar 26, 2021 03:08
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same
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Mar 26, 2021 03:09
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i am sorry but i have to disagree. it will in fact not be good.
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Mar 26, 2021 03:13
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quote:“By some measures, China spends more on infrastructure every year than the US and Europe combined,” Buttigieg said. “The infrastructure status quo is a threat to our collective future. We face an imperative to create resilient infrastructure and confront inequities that have devastated communities.”
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Mar 26, 2021 03:17
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Is there historical basis to the idea that China would be willing to sanction and blockade Taiwan if the US wasn't involved? I'm honestly asking as someone that has only relatively recently started learning in depth about China, so I don't want to come off as a big proponent of Chinese propaganda if I've fallen for it, but from the bit that I've dug into I'm unaware of them acting in such a way. If they have, I'd very much appreciate any examples so I can continue educating myself.
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Mar 26, 2021 03:19
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Lmao
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Mar 26, 2021 04:12
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Lmao time to create a new infrastructure measurement system is what I hear
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Mar 26, 2021 04:14
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if buttigieg wants to close the infrastructure gap im all for it, but that will gently caress with the Deficit and none of the money goes to defense contractors so
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Mar 26, 2021 04:15
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I'm glad that the "infrastructure week" joke still has legs.
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Mar 26, 2021 04:20
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THS posted:if buttigieg wants to close the infrastructure gap im all for it, but that will gently caress with the Deficit and none of the money goes to defense contractors so There is no reason aerospace contractors couldn't be making turbine blades.
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Mar 26, 2021 04:50
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THS posted:if buttigieg wants to close the infrastructure gap im all for it, but that will gently caress with the Deficit and none of the money goes to defense contractors so The bill will come later but right now we are gearing up for a full Cold War. I honestly think they are going to spend unbelievable amounts of money in a desperate attempt to win.
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Mar 26, 2021 06:03
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Ardennes posted:The bill will come later but right now we are gearing up for a full Cold War. I honestly think they are going to spend unbelievable amounts of money in a desperate attempt to win. Look you can either work on infrastructure or order 40 more $80 mil a piece fighter jets that still don't fly at night or in the rain and can potentially kill the pilot.
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Mar 26, 2021 06:25
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the creaking american mecha is piloted by the most corpulent failsons
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Mar 26, 2021 06:29
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Look you can either work on infrastructure or order 40 more $80 mil a piece fighter jets that still don't fly at night or in the rain and can potentially kill the pilot. We are probably going to do both but the effect of the infrastructure part is likely going to be minimal. It is going to take 30-40 billion just to get the New York Subway operational.
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Mar 26, 2021 06:31
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The only reason this poo poo is so expensive in US cities is because of real estate vampires. It isn't even construction industry graft. Other countries have that and they can still get poo poo done.
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Mar 26, 2021 06:33
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VideoTapir posted:The only reason this poo poo is so expensive in US cities is because of real estate vampires. It isn't even construction industry graft. Other countries have that and they can still get poo poo done. Some of it also that we (the US) chose a path that is just really inefficient and maybe unfixable. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 07:05 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 06:46
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I mean is there any possible world in which the 3 trillion infrastructure plan ever becomes a reality and isn't watered down to like 600 billion and is all spent on highways?
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Mar 26, 2021 06:52
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comedyblissoption posted:the creaking american mecha is piloted by the most corpulent failsons Evangelicals join the air force so they can die in a f35 and meet god.
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Mar 26, 2021 06:55
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*crossing the international dateline* we meet god now
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Mar 26, 2021 07:06
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KaptainKrunk posted:I mean is there any possible world in which the 3 trillion infrastructure plan ever becomes a reality and isn't watered down to like 600 billion and is all spent on highways? A 3 trillion dollar bill is both possible (that’s only 300 billion a year btw) and it will be mostly on highways and random non-sense. Btw the total cost of a f 35 is closer to 110 million with total costs added and the USAF admits it isn’t useful for any scenario where a dogfight could take place and it is really only a strike fighter. The f-22, which there are about 120 operational and mostly located in the US, would have to do all the heavy lifting. The best I can tell the f-35 was designed to strike non moving targets in Middle Eastern countries with minimal air defenses. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 07:20 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 07:07
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Gonna invest in paving machines
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Mar 26, 2021 07:11
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Isn't it great we as a species decided to cover half the land in our cities with carcinogen reservoirs?
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Mar 26, 2021 07:13
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Is the CA HSR even happening, haven't heard any news in a while.
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Mar 26, 2021 08:23
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