I remember in my cadets days that some people can manage an extremely tight grouping at 300 meters with an iron sight. But under 150 meters is an ideal engagement distance for anyone half decently trained, Trump was lucky the dude didn’t appear to have been trained at all
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Pretty crazy that we have at this point a defacto US President stock (DJT) and MAGA coin... Both up by a lot post-shooting of course.
Financialization gone too far. Or is it a novel form of American Democracy? Retail traders, the underclass, finally have a direct avenue to signal their displeasure and impact net worth of some of Trump's elites.
Financialization gone too far. Or is it a novel form of American Democracy? Retail traders, the underclass, finally have a direct avenue to signal their displeasure and impact net worth of some of Trump's elites.
plawolf
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Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. It’s one thing to punch paper at the range, it’s another to do it for real where the consequences are so vast. All the while when you know you are against the clock and that a police sniper might nail you at any moment and when you almost certainly had to scramble to get into position asap so your heart rate is likely to be spiking.
Not saying training couldn’t help people manage such conditions, but that would be highly specialist combat sniper training.
The guy could have had training, even decent military training, but he could still miss the shot under such pressures. If it would be so easy for any line grunt to overcome those kinds of pressures and challenges, there would be no need for elite sniper training.
Outsourcing your propaganda department to "Phul Saport Saar"-land be like:
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In the age of LLMs, Phul Saport Saar finna be Foo-Ka-Daa
That would be unamerican
The first shot would have killed Trump but he missed the other 4 shots since we now know it was 5 shots in total.
Reverse UNO: Accept the deal and reunify, change mind about letting US take TSMC and throttle global supply, throw the US a bone and offer to sell TSMC at high valuation due to demand, announce domestic EUV after selling, experience seller's high watching just sold TSMC stock value crumble, profit
This works in China's favor - imagine 2.4B well behaved, obedient, perpetual customers
A 'promise' to allow the US to retain a partial sphere of influence in Europe, as opposed to complete fragmentation of the EU and market capture. Unlikely, but if the US is desperate (e.g. civil unrest at home and collapse of trust abroad), this may sound appealing.
MSS undercover dishwashers up for national service medal after securing agent Trump's election win
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plawolf
Lieutenant General
There is a fundamental lack of trust to allow such a deal to materialise as neither side would be willing to allow the other side to get what they want first and hope they keep their world after.
Also, from a grand strategy POV, such a trade will actually serve America far more than China in the medium to long run.
Once China has peacefully reunified with Taiwan, its principle justification for its military modernisation would be gone. Cue all the CIA funded Hanjians and useful idiots jumping out of the woodworks demanding China cut defence spending to fund LGBT gender studies and other useless western aping programmes as well as increasing demands for political reform.
At the same time America would be able to get concessions where Taiwan’s internal political and social positions are left largely intact similar to Hong Kong and limit mainland law enforcement powers.
The CIA would have a field day fermenting unrest and maybe even starting a terrorism movement and use the existing of that terrorism movement, and China’s counter terrorism efforts as justification for economic sanctions and increased military spending.
To be frank, after the lessons from HK, Beijing would have to be stupid to accept another such poison chalice from the Anglos.
Taiwan’s society is massively compromised by anti-Chinese elements and forces and needs to be thoroughly purged post reunification. Better to do that under the cover of war than with the CIA holding magnifying glasses to make every Chinese traitor a hero and martyr of the west.
HK (and Macau) was only because China wanted to trial the potential of an internal market capitalism. Also it was a posture to show the world (read:Russia regarding outer manchuria) how foreign occupied territory can be returned bloodlessly and while maintaining equality for the past residents.
In contrast Taiwan is not a foreign occupied territory so in the first place there is nothing to negotiate about. US only has its territorial "claim" which is built on solely military threats and the deployment of internationally non-recognized "little green men" into Taiwan. US can only drop it's claims, not demand anything from a territory it has never succesfully occupied.
Giving up on claims US can't win in Taiwan will benefit US in that they're not tying their national fate to an invasion that would be harder for them to win than Barbarossa was for Germany. It is the logical move to establish more realistic goals and fight for those instead, if they are to keep fighting over hegemony with China. But logic and rationality is not at the forefront of the current US regime.
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