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Temstar said:

My daughter's art teacher is living in Republic of Australia. Fun fact her husband is Korean minority ethnicity with his mum from South Korea and dad from North Korea, met and married in Dandong across the Yalu River so for them they'll probably be like "oh no not this shit again".

I'm curious if all North Korean migrants in China automatically also get the Korean minority ethnicity thing or if that guy had some special circumstances. I'm pretty sure South Koreans can't claim it.

The best part about this map is in this scenario the RoA has its own version of Penghu in King Island and Flinder Island. It even has its own Kinmen in

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10km off the coast of Victoria.

Rodondo Island 小三通 when?

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So I heard there is this ongoing separatist movement in the biggest and western most state in the People's Republic of Australia. The people there speak in a different accent and they even have their own timezone. That land is mostly desert and also happen to have a lot of natural resources including natural gas, kind of reminds of

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Clip of Trump presscon

coolgod said:

So I heard there is this ongoing separatist movement in the biggest and western most state in the People's Republic of Australia. The people there speak in a different accent and they even have their own timezone. That land is mostly desert and also happen to have a lot of natural resources including natural gas, kind of reminds of

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It's true and I don't even know why. During COVID Western Australia state government got the hook up and could source PPE from China while no one else in the world could so they were doing deals on behalf of other states. I also know they always invite their Chinese consulate staff to public events.

I think it's something to do with resource trade. I'm not sure what the split is but maybe Western Australia proportionally rely more on commodity export to China than other states so they know which side of the bread is buttered on.

Victorian state government (ie Labour) use to be fairly friendly too and signed onto BRI before federal government stopped them but there are still a lot of conservative voices in Victoria which tow the US line. They got candidates that put "no CCP" and shit on their blurb on their how to vote cards. I think the closer it is to Canberra the more US aligned things become, with Queensland being an outlier because they're super conservative and derisively called "banana benders" by other states.

Iron Man said:

LOL it's absolutely meaningless to engage with intellectual dishonesty where you can just straight up ignore plain, cited evidence directly contradictory to your obviously mistaken beliefs and waive it off as a "throwaway line", as if it didn't say what it actually says, or perhaps as if it doesn't even exist, even though I provided the working link. That's like the standard MAGAt talking about "alternative facts" and various other spindoctored garbage to avoid having to deal with reality.

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I accept your concession of defeat since you still have no answer for the 10k to 100 air combat ratio or the result of Khe Sanh and Dewey Canyon.

I suggest starting with learning real history not taught by VOA or USAID funded agencies. Their budget got cut for a reason.

This is why America is doomed.

siegecrossbow said:

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If Trump could fuck over majority white countries like Denmark, Canada, and Ukraine, why do the Wanwanese think they are so special? You literally are just Chinese with a propensity to cuck. You know what happens when dumb red necks can’t bully the PRC? They look for the next best thing to take their anger’s out on. Like Chinese American grandmas. Good luck finding someone who looks more punchable than the DPP.

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It never fails the dumb Asian that thinks they're the exception.

FairAndUnbiased said:

I accept your concession of defeat since you still have no answer for the 10k to 100 air combat ratio or the result of Khe Sanh and Dewey Canyon.

I suggest starting with learning real history not taught by VOA or USAID funded agencies. Their budget got cut for a reason.

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Your gumption is truly astonishing.

I accept your concession of defeat since you have no answer for the obvious fact of the Taliban having a standing army in 2001, e.g.:

During the 1990s the Taliban maintained 400 and tanks and more than 200 armoured personnel carriers.

400 tanks and 200 APCs isn't a throwaway line no matter how much you bury your head in the sand.

As for your "10k to 100" "air combat ratio", that is a straight up lie on your part. That 10k number is losses of ALL aircraft, including cargo planes and helicopters. That makes sense since the USAF usually dominated the skies above but as soon as they dipped towards the canopy to drop troops or supplies they were vulnerable to even small arms fire. Pretty sure North Vietnam didn't do too many combat drops.

The actual net "air combat ratio" is about 150:70 in favor of the USAF.


BTW, here are a couple more "throwaway lines" from that link, including describing your vaunted Linebacker II which was allegedly so successful for North Vietnam:

"Even so, enemy MiGs failed in their primary mission to stop US air attacks over North Vietnam during OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER. In fact, the VPAF fighter force sometimes retreated to China and stood down from combat operations due to heavy losses suffered at the hands of American fighter crews.

MiG pilots did little better in December 1972 -- by the end of OPERATION LINEBACKER II, USAF B-52s and tactical aircraft hit targets at will, forcing the North Vietnamese to sign a peace treaty."

Franklin said:

This is why America is doomed.

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He has to find a way to make money. Trump went out of his way to say he was never going to offer a position in his administration again to Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo. He's under China's sanctions list meaning China will not do business with any company that hires him. No executive job nor board member in any corporation. The right-wing Koch brothers didn't even hire him. No more job at FOX News since Trump seems not to like him. So the only thing for him is being a teacher.

Iron Man said:

Your gumption is truly astonishing.

I accept your concession of defeat since you have no answer for the obvious fact of the Taliban having a standing army in 2001, e.g.:

During the 1990s the Taliban maintained 400

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tanks and more than 200 armoured personnel carriers.

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400 tanks and 200 APCs isn't a throwaway line no matter how much you bury your head in the sand.

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Says: "isn't a throwaway line" proceeds to name a throwaway number.

For reference, that's less tanks and substantially less APC than the PVA used in Korea. You know, the famous armored blitz of the PVA.

It's also around what AFU lost in Bakhmut or Kursk. A single battle in a just 3 year long war.

Per definition a throwaway number.

Iron Man said:

As for your "10k to 100" "air combat ratio", that is a straight up lie on your part. That 10k number is losses of ALL aircraft, including cargo planes and helicopters. That makes sense since the USAF usually dominated the skies above but as soon as they dipped towards the canopy to drop troops or supplies they were vulnerable to even small arms fire. Pretty sure North Vietnam didn't do too many combat drops.

The actual net "air combat ratio" is about 150:70 in favor of the USAF.

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BTW, here are a couple more "throwaway lines" from that link, including describing your vaunted Linebacker II which was allegedly so successful for North Vietnam:

"Even so, enemy MiGs failed in their primary mission to stop US air attacks over North Vietnam during OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER. In fact, the VPAF fighter force sometimes retreated to China and stood down from combat operations due to heavy losses suffered at the hands of American fighter crews.

MiG pilots did little better in December 1972 -- by the end of OPERATION LINEBACKER II, USAF B-52s and tactical aircraft hit targets at will, forcing the North Vietnamese to sign a peace treaty."

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Jesus what it this source usage? Might as well select a DPRK museum of the "war to resist imperialist aggression" as the authorative voice on how well the KPA performed and how high Kim Il Sung's balls should be lifted.

If they were so vulnerable to small arms fire, it reveals really poor doctrine. Aircraft should never be unsupported in a way mere small arms fire or manpads can kill 1000s of them... It sounds like weird cope tbh because US tactics should not be that bad and not improve across such a long war.

Either way they lost a staggering amount of aircraft and that's what counts. Resulting in conventional defeat. Because 10k aircraft is defintely no throwaway number, even if half are helicopters and cargo planes. In fact, the latter are more expensive and should almost never be lost in combat by a competent army. Russia has for example lost around 3-5 cargo planes (1 loaded with Ukrainian prisoners in either a perfidy incident from Ukraine or a Russian false flag) in the whole war.

siegecrossbow said:

UK dodged a bullet by doing Brexit.

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Next week Trump will announce 50% tariffs on the UK unless they give him, as in personally, the Crown Jewels and Scotland. Because he likes shiny and golf and scotch whiskey and Angus burgers/steaks.