Trump gave Europe three weeks to sign off on Ukraine "surrender": MEP
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We'll keep all the non-personel weaponry tyvm!
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It's about whether US will do the same throw under the bus routine with Taiwan I think. China would love to know that the US won't seriously contest an attempt to invade their neighbor across the strait
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I kinda doubt China wants to share things with the US. That and I doubt Putin wants the China to be stronger either. I think China would be cool not stepping in the way of the US and Russia so long as they see some opportunities for themselves.
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I'm not sure what Taiwan has to do with a supply chain, but yeah, Taiwan falling to China would absolutely be part of the agreement. And as insane as what I'm about to say, especially since I'm Taiwanese, Taiwan would be a tiny footnote if this all goes through. It's nuts that the entirety of the democracy's survival is completely dependent on the will of 3 people and 2 of them have already proven to be completely insane and the third one no one is happy with.
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Idk anymore. The maga handlers have complete control of the maga cult media machine. I could imagine this happening, and right media spinning up a lie that maga eats up. "Biden did this with the Democrats!"
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Yeah, but we have to hope as a species that's what China decides. Looking at their history, that's actually likely. But we're basically gambling on a sane decision from the CCP. That's not a place I want to be. Though in fairness, I think most people here would agree with me.
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They can lie all they want. No trade means inflation. Inflation means markets crashing. It can't be stopped without spreading wealth oligarchs don't want to share with those in need. When people starve, they will murder rampantly to stay alive.
Most of the rich are smart enough to know they only stay rich if the people stay peaceful and mildly satiated. You don't want to lock yourself in with 250,000,000 starving people with guns.
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risk an American withdrawal from Europe.
Why is this a threat? Is there a reason Europe would want a hostile country to remain there?
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It is true. By not opposing fascism, you're tacitly supporting it.
They literally published a playbook of what they'd do if they won. The contents of it were known. The man straight up said he would be a dictator.
Knowing all of that, if you didn't oppose him, you were complicit in him gaining power.
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Taiwan is important culturally to China for history reasons. But it's much important financially and technoly wise due to tsmc. That was the true point of the chips act so us technology wouldn't be so reliant of Taiwan but I doubt Trump understands that.
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Russia has the upper hand in Trump's ass.
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It's far more than historical reasons, Taiwan is complicated at best. I'm not going to claim I know who's right or wrong or literally anything on the topic. All I can say is my personal opinion and on that I hope Taiwan will find a way to keep it's independence regardless of their official standing in the world.
On the chip act. Yes, I agree, very much so...
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Congressional approval is required for acts of war. I know the Republicans have Congress, but are they willing to go that far??
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They got loads of weapons and ammunition, even soldiers.
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Fuck him. First, he'll do what we wants regardless of whether you concede to his demands. If we wants to withdraw troops, he'll withdraw them, no matter what concessions you make to him in hopes of preventing that. Look at his history. Look at how he has treated the other party in Every. Single. One. of the "deals" that he's made. He fucks them over. NEVER believe he'll hold up his side of whatever bargain you make. He won't.
Don't ever concede to this bully. The more you concede, the more demands he'll make, like with a blackmailer. Call his bluff. Say, "Sorry, we don't agree. If that means you'll withdraw, then don't let the screen door hit ya where the good lord split ya on the way out." Bam! End of bullying and if he didn't want to withdraw, he'll find some excuse no to go through with it (or probably just lie and say you agreed to do something for him behind the scenes).
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I don't think they've actually approved a war since Korea. They ceded that power to the president. Congress never declared war on Vietnam, Iraq x2, or Afghanistan. And that's just the big ones.
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The delusion on these forums is palpable.
"If you don't vote in an election, you automatically support one candidate over the other!"
Glad most of it is contained online, though.
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Yeah. We need to prepare to defend Greenland from the US. Having 100.000 enemy troops stationed all over the continent who need to be contained first makes it practically impossible.
And now the mask is finally peeling off. The US bases around the world are not their to defend the countries they are in. They are there to defend the US interests. This should be obvious to anyone, who can read just a little bit of history, but better late than never.
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Most analysts these days say that Ukraine is about to collapse military in the next year. More weapons alone wont cut it anymore as Ukraine is running out of troops to use them.
The strategy of using Ukraine to exhaust Russia, but never give Ukraine what it needed to defend itself fully and win, just for Ukraine to keep not losing, is failing now.
Russia incurrs high losses, but it is not exhausted yet.
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Is that recent picture?
Dude may not have three weeks.
