Failure to properly response has not lead to the risk of war being averted but to the risk of an expanded war increasing which bores the risk of unnecessarily increasing avoidable casualties.
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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Failure to properly response has not lead to the risk of war being averted but to the risk of an expanded war increasing which bores the risk of unnecessarily increasing avoidable casualties.
They usually fly around the south of the island. Last time they flew directly towards it was last year I think? But you're right, nothing we haven't seen before, just relatively different than the last months.
War and decoupling are both inevitable, structurally set by the underlining thermodynamic realities of entropy and the real 2nd law... its EROEI that underpins global civilization and as we have peaked and regressed into the Energy Trap of Negative Sum games of ever shrinking pies, this scale invariant cascading canibalization of sorts necessarily dictates that US hegemony is diametrically at odds with China's continued development....push has come to shove and something is going to give, this is the clash of civilizations and at best only one victor will come out alive from it
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Sorry, I disagree. Any direct conflict between China and the US will always have the potential of expanding, Pelosi or no Pelosi. The situation today is much like US/USSR Cold War, except that this time it is the US that is playing the role of the USSR. History has shown that with enough time, such a player will collapse on its own.
Well, I am not not convinced. But that is fine though, because you don't need to convince me. Will the pro-independence forces be convinced by your nuclear war rhetoric though, especially after all this?
Yes, they already are. Media coverage of this visit surprised me in its negativity. Almost all mainstream media affirmed Pelosi's "right" to visit Taiwan but criticized it as a stunt that will ultimately strengthen China's hand. There was also some recent poll where 2/3 of Taiwanese respondents said this visit would increase the chances of a war breaking out. The bravado seems entirely confined to the brainless portions of the internet; anyone with two neurons to rub together sees Taiwan as the ultimate loser.
As much as pro-independence forces want independence, they want something far more: not to die.
Lets not talk as far as if Taiwan dares to declare independence.
Will Taiwan dare to stop Beijing's troops doing live fire inside their self claimed borders? Because if they can't even do that, they won't dare to declare independence, nuclear threat or no nuclear threat.
It's a game of paper tigers --- I dare you and I dare you.
Don't be so down and glum, friend. You'll feel much better after these exercises are finished, you'll see.
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