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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's so fucking evil how Western media ignores how and why "Taiwan" exists. They don't even call it by it's own name, the RoC. It's a deliberate framing to make it look like the PRC just wants to "invade" just because muh evil commies.

Aaaaaaaah I hate it.

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    The glitch: Peaceful reunification, because even somehow winning a conflict against the world's largest economy, 100 miles off your coast, that has been preparing for this for half a century, is far, far worse than the alternative.

    Then again, if Ukraine is anything to go by, we're gonna get some comprador gov't put a rifle in every man, woman, and child's hands, followed by the US bombing TSMC.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    A Taiwanese tycoon has announced his plan to train 3.3 million “civilian warriors” and marksmen to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, using one billion Taiwan dollars ($32m) of his own money.

    The announcement by Robert Tsao, a well-known Taiwanese businessman and founder of United Microelectronics Corp, a major microchip producer, comes amid increasing military activity between Taiwan and China. On Thursday Taiwan’s defence ministry announced its soldiers had shot down a Chinese drone over Taiwan’s Kinmen islands.

    At a press conference on Thursday, Tsao, 75, said the Chinese Communist party (CCP) threat to Taiwan was growing. Wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet, he pledged funds to train “three million people in three years”. Working with the island’s civilian defence organisation, the Kuma Academy, 60% of the funds would go towards building an army of “warriors”, and 40% to training another 300,000 in how to shoot.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    to train 3.3 million “civilian warriors” and marksmen to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, using one billion Taiwan dollars ($32m)

    Ten dollars per guy seems suspiciously cheap

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nah there isnt a fervent anti-China nationalist mythology and hatred among the Taiwanese at nearly the degree that has been constructed in Ukraine for a century now. Much different cultural mindsets too. Taiwan would fold socialy in any attempt to have them fight any attritional, mass mobilization war against the Chinese. Ukraine had hundreds of thousands of fascists frothing in the mouth for Russian blood with penetration at every level of politics and civil society , let alone the army. And a russophobic population ready to jump into "this is an existential war that we must fight till the last man" narrative fed to them. There wont be any mass ability or willingness to die by the tens of thousands on a war against the mainland. Hell they would probably fold after 2 weeks of Naval blockade of Oil/Gas/coal if the US doesnt try to break it, let alone fight on trenches on the beaches

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Then again, if Ukraine is anything to go by, we're gonna get some comprador gov't put a rifle in every man, woman, and child's hands, followed by the US bombing TSMC.

    Nah, the PRC is too busy bribing Taiwanese top brass to surrender for that to happen.

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago

    "And then the communism particles just bounce off the free market forcefield"

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    This dudes videos keep getting recommended to me and I hate it.

    I think I watched Boy Boy and I Did A Thing on Hasan's stream dunking on a RealLifeLore video on China so the AI thinks I care about RLL. Shit sucks

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    Is it the same “taiwan has mountains in the middle of the island making the invasion hard” and “we can always nuke the three gorges dam and collapse the ccp” rhetoric strategies?

    That shit has been Taiwan tabloid tv level geopolitical strategy.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    It's like the Asian version of British chuds harping on about the all-powerful Royal Navy when they don't even know how to steer a ship

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    They don’t need to have a navy. The strategy implies that the US would step in.

    So you know the rammification

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Part of me has to wonder: what are the impacts on national self-identity of being utterly reliant on a third-party for defense against the historical opposing nation? It has to be one of those things nationalists shove under the rug, right?

    Like how Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state.

    Or how Americans pretend the French didn’t win the bourgeois revolution for us.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    tbh, any national right wing capitalist states from the modern era are mostly propped up by imperial powers. The nationalistic narratives is mostly for local consumption and a way to discipline the population.

    Any actual nationalistic aspiration is viable if it is Left wing and anti-capitalist because its main goal is to break away from the imperial system.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    The island that imports almost all of its fuel and most of its food will rely on the country that can't even protect commercial shipping from the Houthis in the event of conflict with the producer of the world's most sophisticated anti-ship weapons.

    What could go wrong?

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  • [+] [S] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I wonder if the US will learn any lessons from the current situation in the Middle East where a bunch of forward bases which are difficult to resupply and cannot mutually support each other are more of a liability than an asset.

    Probably not.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Ah, but you see, the anti-ship weapons are Chinese. This means they are cheap and ineffective. Just like how Ruzzzzzzzzzzzzian hypersonic missiles keep getting intercepted by patriot systems. This is totally a thing that is actually happening and not just propaganda to make a paper tiger seem like a flesh and blood tiger.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago

    By the way the halo is repelling those lines, they must be thinking of those lamps that give off positive ions to repel bad vibes

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    Hey cracker dipshit, I know nobody has had the heart to tell you, but you need to hear it: no amount of stock footage infotainment sludge is going to stop China.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are they going to call China a hacker and lamer when it inevitably takes over?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    The channel is the biggest cope I've seen in a whlie

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    if you want to know the level of analysis we're dealing with, this dude has a video basically titled 'North Korea is going to attack ukriane'

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Has Xi considered that I hacked the dev console?

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Second image tshirt: Buddhism but crap

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    The lore guy can't even get Kinmen Island right.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    The Gorbino's Quest of Geopolitics

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    I can't imagine seing an invasion or large scale attack on Taiwan. What I absolutely can imagine is seeing them go the way of Tibet, where they start cooperating and China is all carrot and no stick, and then you just stop hearing about them in Western media. And that would honestly be just fine.

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