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Cake day: February 13th, 2024

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  • I mean from the DPP’s perspective, that wouldn’t be a bad move. 100% chance the US’s “defense” of Taiwan consists of sacrificing as many locals as possible to make the war as long and expensive as possible for the PRC, while ensuring anything of value, including workers and factories, is destroyed.

    If they handed the factories over, the US might make a meaningful effort to protect the island.

    Of course, this is insane when simply maintaining the status-quo of “reunification, but sometime in the indefinite future” wouldn’t require signing your resources and labor to the US, getting stripped for parts, and then losing that war anyway, because the world’s largest industrial power has spent half a century preparing for this exact scenario.





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    7 months ago

    The US is not NATO

    It kinda is tho. It was set up by the US to counter the Warsaw pact and prey upon neutral countries, as Blinken put it “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu”. This is evidenced by every single NATO action being in the US’s interest.

    Especially now with Trump in daddy Putins pocket.

    As funny as it would be for Trump to dismantle NATO, his only issue with it is that it doesn’t do enough imperialism.






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    7 months ago

    I mean yes, I love airshows, but there’s something about a mass celebration of these machines of death where a crowd gathered for a completely unrelated purpose gets to see the last thing an afghan child at a wedding sees gives ick in a way that normal airshows, even with all the military recruitment and propaganda don’t.

    It doesn’t even apply to all flyovers, sometimes it’s like F-14s or Chinooks or WWII era planes where the message isn’t so dark.



  • This is why the leak because people are talking about it which can be covered up and denied by the shitlords and not the actual attack, which is unjustifiable.

    Except Biden did the same thing, for months, before packing up because all they were able to do was murder a bunch of civilians while spending millions of dollars to shoot down each 200 dollar drone they launched, and nobody except for the left cared.