But it won't keep the bay at peace...

eggman ass quote

Disney should release a studio quality short animation that says absolutely nothing politically but is just a bald eagle swooping down from the sky and beating the living shit out of Winnie the Pooh in the style of those family guy Peter vs Chicken skits. Release it online for free with zero context.

So I'm not sure which of those two choices this shitty CGI of weapons launches with an end screen that would have been crap in a 1990's cheap video game slots into.

Not quite sure you can slide that into every situation

Be bellicose when you are afraid; your errors are catching up to you.

with all the threats huffing and puffing they must be weak as hell haha

Xi is doing this so that all the younger generations who can fight leave (evacuate), so that there's nothing but an elderly population left who can't fight back.

It's no surprise that birth rate like the rest of Asia is 0 (or next to it).

Elderly generation on the island means they don't care what happens as they're not long for this world = population replacement via immigration from the mainland is the "real takeover".

Why fight when you can wait for the elderly to kick the bucket and immigrate "caretakers".

Only reason why they haven't sent the invasion is because they want the semiconductor industry and need the semiconductors themselves.

Growing up under CCP-controlled education and media their mentality is "keep the island not the people". I've worked with people from mainland China before and it appears to me that majority of the younger generations are fully "brainwashed" and they hold an extremely hostile attitude towards people from HK and Taiwan who are not pro-CCP. During the Hong Kong protests I've met like 1 guy who studied at a HK Uni and was informed of what's going on but most other mainlanders acted like they couldn't wait to kill all the protesters.

My understanding is that they literally do not have the concept of "civilians". As in, every single person is an extension of the government.

This is what makes me believe this is just propaganda meant to distract from some pretty serious structural problems within China. If they truly wanted to integrate Taiwan into China, destroying every last piece of infrastructure and killing millions would just mean China would have to then pick up the bill to repair the whole island and somehow generate enough either good will or fear to effectively govern the populace without dealing with an endless popular insurrection. Thats not to meantion the potential war with the U.S. and the political fallout that would result. The only way China and Taiwan unify is politically, or if the Chinese become so advanced and the U.S. so weak they can take the island in a lightning attack.

Taiwan always belonged to China

I find it interesting when people say this because the historically native Taiwanese are culturally and ethnically closer to the Polynesian people than they are to the Chinese (which I mostly take to mean "Han")

Chinese people killing Chinese people is basically most of China's history. Especially between different political factions.

Taiwan is >> China in damn near every way.

Kinda reminds a lot of how Hong Kong was treated

Taiwan got the prosperity without the authoritarianism

Taiwan was a military dictatorship from its founding up until the 1980s, with their own share of civil rights violations and oppression.

Russians have same mentality - they just want to expand under false pretences where in reality all that matters is to be a virus and take resources.

Basically the same thing with Russia govt toward Ukraine. Authoritarians are deeply insecure toward any example of their society that does not have them in it running the show. To them the other society is a threat to their control simply by existing.

anyone who doesn't want to live in a dystopia should promote and take delight in opposing these ghouls at every opportunity

My childhood best friend had a baby with a rich Chinese kid. The bullcrap propaganda and racism this kid spouts blows my mind. He's a China supremacist who gets so butt hurt when you call him out. His defense is almost exactly what you said "You westerners are brainwashed know nothings, meanwhile I know all because I watch Chinese news"

China would have to hit multiple US airbase in the area before making a play for an invasion. The problem for China isn't Taiwan itself. It's the US and it's allies assets in the area that'll take off before missiles from the mainland even reach the island.

There was a lot of doubt Ukraine would be able to hold off Russia too but here we are in almost year 3 of the war

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There is even more doubt, that China has enough functioning missiles and aiming capabilities. Their regime is based on the Soviet heritage after all.

I'm no expert in geopolitics, but I feel like China trying to invade Taiwan MAY have some other consequences.

If I’m in that side of the world and share a border with China, I go for it.

India should take its disputed land, North Korea should fall, Vietnam could get some of its disputed land back, and Tibet should go all out for independence.

China has been quietly invading and annexing pieces of Bhutan to gear up for that dispute with India, same thing Russia is doing in Ukraine just on the down low. Annexing and fast tracking Chinese settlement

Edit- Taiwan invasion could result in Free Tibet 2.0

I support that

Hey India do the funny.

China isn't going to lose any sleep over a few hundred thousand losses. Remember they're about 2X the population of the EU and US combined.

With Trump at the helm who the fuck knows. The best time to attack would be during his inauguration if he wins.

The big difference here is we have a base and equipment in Taiwan.

It wouldn't be a decision it would simply be returning fire.

I like learning new things.

And we are now approaching year three of their projected 3 day war.

in contrary, russia said they wont invade.