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This is common knowledge available anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taiwan_(1945–present)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War

Those all have sources. There are also lots of reputable YouTubers with relevant academic credentials that have coved this, Asianometry and William C Fox are two that I recall covering the subject. I think Caspian Report did as well at one point in the last few years. This is like ultra basic surface level stuff everyone should know or severely question their sources and echo chambers if they are not made aware of this fundamental information.

Why is there any mystery here. They said they intend on ending their civil war and have shown no indication whatsoever that such a statement is only rhetorical or posturing. Taiwan has never tried to be independent of China. It still claims sovereignty over all of China.

If the US Confederates had retreated to Cuba and others had intervened on their behalf, while the Confederates still claimed dominion over a part of the USA, you can bet your ass the US would invade Cuba as soon as they had the opportunity. We can all decry the whole thing, but it is their conflict. If anything, we should be evacuating anyone and anything that needs to leave and capitulating without further involvement. Like if your neighbor and their spouse are arguing, stay out of it for the benefit of everyone. This is not some mate getting abused that needs help. This involves two bloody parties where all sides have done monstrous things and that needs to get resolved one way or another. Both can’t claim dominion over all. The past cannot be bowdlerized for convenience or exploitation for profit of western criminal capitalist abuse. No one needs to fight or die, but a resolution must be found.

Edit: Wow Lemmy is remarkably stupid to the point of incompetent ineptitude at basic fundamental history. Like wtf am I doing here in a room with this insane nonsense.

I don’t know what to do as an American, I don’t even speak good Russian

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Isn’t this the main complaint about China and the communists from the West in terms of actions, not the half baked oversimplified idealist nonsense; anti academic injustices due to populist stupidity in politics that lead to mass murder and loss of human progress?

I bet he could sell out venues on an American tour of these values right now.

Because these are all loopholes used to bypass any serious moves. Like everyone is still buying Russian oil even in Europe. The blockade is an ineffective joke. This move is China saying fuck your instability and stupidity, we are serious and can back it up. There are no back doors and no way out of this insanely stupid mess.

Where are you getting that from? If this were a real constraint, Ukrainian systems would be a joke, as would those on Starship, planes, boats, etc. The low orbital infrastructure is specifically to ensure high throughput. Some offloading is logical in some circumstances, but not as a constraint.

This extortion and ad brought to you by Starlink and Elon Musk. It is what he talks about with Putin. It was never a real issue in the past. There is redundancy in the system. Cutting yourself off from communication assets is not very bright and hurts yourself as much as others in almost every case. The blind spot works both ways in the long term for an advantage that only lasts hours to days in limited strategic depth. So you take some asset in the dark. Now you need to defend that asset from the dark, or the newly created blind spot is now your vulnerability too. None of this makes much sense in the real world. What does make sense is an extortionist no one wants around trying to make everyone pay for his kingpin politics.

Exactly, stupid Visa plebs. This is Master Card.

Since we now have a value does that mean I can sell mine for $5m? I’ll gladly take that and move to a real democracy.

US intelligence has said Xi has ordered the PLA to be capable of invasion by 2027, although military experts have noted that a number of variables – including ongoing corruption issues in the PLA and the unpredictability of US support for Taiwan under Trump – could push that in either direction.

Regardless, the PLA is now undergoing one of the biggest military buildups since the second world war. Xi has overhauled the command structure, boosted missile and nuclear stocks, and strengthened paramilitary arms including the coastguard and the paramilitary fleet of fishing boats known as the maritime militia. The different groups are cooperating more than ever on joint operations.

Satellite images show the barges were escorted by at least two civilian ships from a nearby civilian dock, and that several other boats – including some marked as fishing vessels on their tracking ID – were sailing laps behind them, appearing to practise running interference.

At least three more barges are under construction or in early testing. The barge design suggests they have been built to work with the roll-on, roll-off ferries that China has been repurposing or building to bring tanks and another heavy armoured vehicles across the Taiwan Strait.

Intel announced they are relying on TSMC even more heavily and without letup in a recent investors call. This is WW3 building up. We have an atrocious auto industry that is incapable of integrated engineering, Boeing is a shitfest, and Intel that makes iterative downgrade products that are several generations behind its own products and nowhere near AMD.

When China invades Taiwan, North Korea will invade the South at the same time. That takes out all leading edge silicon hardware instantly. We’ll have tanks that go dead when they stop and play an ad, planes that drop doors instead of munitions, and antique new computers.

It is insane that anyone buys F35’s with DRM

Setup a co-op for fair loans outside of the criminal banking norms

Tit4Tat will result in the USA always getting hurt worse than everyone else

That is neo feudalism.

Pompey and Crassus then? “The first Trumpvirate”

Easy easy buddy. We’re all friends here. I don’t value words much at all from anyone. I prefer to let actions speak for themselves. Whatever Trump says is the same to me as all the rich and super rich; it should never be taken at face value. Whether the thing said does or does not happen is largely irrelevant to me.

As far as actions, the christozeolot group said this is absolutely a soft coup. Those are the words I care to watch out for. All anyone can do is lay low and wait at this point. I expect my family support may run out within this 4 year stretch. I couldn’t get much help with disability even with the left in power, so this could be deadly for me on a cold rainy night in a gutter somewhere. Such is life.

How is the food situation going? Any improvement? It looks like you made the move to the UK. I hope your family is doing well. That had to be a big move. The most I have ever done is Atlanta to Los Angeles.

Not according to his own sister. He has absolutely no ethics according to her.

Hey now, don’t go crazy. There is plenty of precedent for multiple crusader states in the region. Sieges and genocides are a western cultural tradition since 1096.