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SmokeyTheBear

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  1. Great thing about the Ukraine war is that we only have a pinky toe in that one and it is a model for the defense of Taiwan. I do not want a war with China, but if they are going to do their thing (which is their purgative), we need to put pressure and leverage all the weaknesses. If they are dealing with bank runs, and COVID issues, and general unrest from a populace support standpoint, a Ukraine type war could put Xi in a very bad position similar to Putin currently.
  2. The alternative is China does what they want, take over Taiwan, controls the chip market and we're sitting around twiddling our thumbs wishing we did something more like Ukraine. *and, any bad actors will be emboldened further because they know America won't do anything of substance to stop them.
  3. If it's going to go down at some point, then again, why not take every advantage possible to weaken them and strengthen our alliances? I'm of the mind that Russia and China have had their strategies and road map for expansion already set, regardless of what the rest of the world wants. Russia played their hand and now we need to disrupt China's play before they are strong enough to fully realize their strategy.
  4. To put it another way, this is just like us cruising our subs and carriers thru their artificial islands so that they don't feel they can shut down/control international shipping channels.
  5. If we finally view each other as the hostiles we are, why not weaken them further when we can? They have no problem doing what they want to try to weaken us. All we are doing with this move is tell the world we support Taiwan. This isn't sanctions or a surgical strike or something real. This is trying to stop another Ukraine from happening on China's timeline.
  6. I don't know. If you want to put pressure on them, there is no better time. With Russia showing how weak they really are, China largely stands alone now and easier to put in a box. They are in the midst of their own internal mess and their military must be questioning everything after what they see how Lil ol Ukraine is handling the paper bear with our weaponry. Our appeasement of certain regimes is starting to backfire on us and it's time to fix that.
  7. She's there with no incident.... Yet https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/02/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-trip/10206663002/
  8. THAT is what you took from that exchange? Cool cool
  9. Somebody needs to check out the old shipping container back in this guys property.
  10. Threatened to shoot down jets that escort her there.
  11. Poor judge
  12. Now back to killing babies a day before they are due to be born. Tastier that way.
  13. Indeed. Had a high school friend who was in the Impossibles so always was there (or liberty lunch) watching them and other bands. Along with some of the best shows I've seen during free day shows at SXSW.
  14. Well to an Austin kid in high school in the 90s it was an Austin institution. But yes, sadly a Houston product.
  15. Lol just making sure. I lived there in high school and early college. Didn't want you to blaspheme one of my Austin institutions.
  16. Fuck China. Make them do something stupid or call their bluff. Either way, one of our leaders should be able to go to a (currently) free country if they so choose and if the country allows
  17. But what about all the other countries who ban machines of war?
  18. Those prepeeled garlic packages are a life saver. Especially when making 40 clove chicken.
  19. Also, this is interesting. Makes a really good old fashioned believe it or not.
  20. Have they been involved in any of what I highlighted? Are they the master at the strategy of gaslighting populaces to sow discourse to further their goals? When being gaslit, you inevitably consume some off the wall shit as a side effect of being gaslit so that you lose the point....of being gaslit by a nefarious actor. You feed and perpetuate that cycle which is what gets you whatever Putin puppet tag you are so concerned about.
  21. No you are telling us to ignore Russia and their deconstructive antics. To not factor their strategies within contexts of situations. That they are only a boogieman and never a player in whatever topic at hand you feel we should deflect from. So are they involved within any of the topics I questioned above?
  22. And that's objectively ok
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