Have to be very careful of their likes.
Right, but all this goes double for the putative alliance of pacific nations you mentioned. This was sort of my point. If they ever attempted to surround China by way of Taiwan, it would require a drawn out process, to which China could respond quicker. Making a 'preventative' invasion for that reason unnecessary and more likely to create risk than head it off.
These are extremely broad and nonspecific statements that don't do the heavy lifting required to make the case for this specific scenario. Not every feasible invasion happens, which means there are other considerations than "we can".
The USA 'got away with' invading Iraq, and yet its occupation was considered such a misjudgement that the political mood in the UK and US swung definitively against lengthy foreign occupations.
That's not how an aggressive, imperialist state thinks. They see a key strategic point that benefits them and prevents its use against them by their enemies, they take it. They don't hope for the best. China's previous and ongoing activities already demonstrate its ruthlessness in pursuit of territorial ideology and strategic advantage (Tibet, South China Sea). It is inconsistent to imagine that China is then going to let Taiwan stand on pinky promises of good behaviour.
We are talking about a forecast of what might or might not occur, therefore we need to consider the sorts of factors that influence decision-making. The fact that countries with powerful militaries tend to use their militaries has obvious relevance.
But so what? A couple of decades of heightened public opposition to military action is cheap compared to conquering a major military and political strategic target China can keep for centuries.
Because they lost and because the ones doing the war had lost popularity as a result. Trump and his deranged cult proved things changed very little. Trump repeating Bush era talking point to justify maybe taking over Gaza was endorsed by his party and whenever Trump talks about starting new wars his cult is quick to defend it. Though not everyone with Greene of all people being a ''true believer''
Case in point being Poland where PIS managed to enforce their will on the media, courts and even the presidency so that they could permanently cripple the new government after having to leave power, and thus making their return to power inevitable. I expect Hungary will suffer a similar fate if Orban ever loses power. After all pretty much every media source in the country has been bought by Orban's cronies.
www.chalkbeat.org
Tibet was >70 years ago and direct battle involved just a few hundred at the time; South China Sea confrontations have resulted in a handfull of injuries and damaged ships over decades.
Of course it does. But generalisations are of limited value in the face of contextual information.
On a related note, contrary to popular belief nowdays, the anti-war sentiment during the Vietnam war was more anti a long war with no end in sight. If it looked like victory was in sight, things would have been different.
Said the nazi who spent years turning the GOP into a nazi party.
Ok? But in which direction?
The absence of evidence that vaccines give you superpowers is evidence in itself that they do.
The CDC has tons of pages with erroneous information on them. The following page has caused more harm than this, yet you guys won't criticize it.
The absence of evidence that vaccines give you superpowers is evidence in itself that they do.
www.cdc.gov
'You guys'? Pfft, lol. You're barking up the wrong tree there, buddy.The CDC has tons of pages with erroneous information on them. The following page has caused more harm than this, yet you guys won't criticize it.
Healthy Eating Tips
Quick and easy tips on how to increase dietary fiber, calcium, vitamin D, and potassium.
Why post a CDC page you have issue with that is obviously a political issue yet ignore other CDC pages that are more harmful?
Oh, but that's the rub, innit. Beyond fodder for a joke, I don't care what your CDC says.
Funny how ramblings of bat shit crazy people are legitimised as being a "political issue".
