Posted on 09/24/2020 12:46:34 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
“The Chinese Communist Party has no idea about the Real World”
Just to be clear, people who have no idea about the Real World who also have nuclear weapons and who are TERRIFIED of losing power. I watched three of the companies I work for be destroyed by people who had no idea how the Real World worked. Being the people in charge, they did just fine while the rest of us lost our jobs. That seems to be how the Real World works. The people who screw it up are generally not affected by the chaos they cause. Further, people in charge who are living in their own special reality are surrounded by people who support their view of reality until the real world just floods in and destroys everything.
If we are going to do something to change Taiwan’s status quo we need to do it so quickly and so decisively that people who do understand the Real World and who will be affected by it lop off the heads of those who do not understand and who see themselves as being just fine regardless of what happens to the great, unwashed masses.
Frankly, the thing to do is create so much discord inside China that by the time they notice a US presence on their doorstep they will be unable to do a thing about it. Figuring out how to set a million Uygur’s loose from their prison camps and giving them arms would go a long way to creating this situation.
“I really don’t think I want to see my kids deployed to Taiwan”
Are your kids in the military?
You just make crap up.
Why would a country that owns most of your debt and much of your real estate and depends on you for much of their food sources attempt to go to war with you?.........LOL!
Dude, I’ve spent 3+ years in god-forsaking Middle East countries.. Please let us ‘invade’ a country with babes... I’ve been pushing for the invasion of Brazil/Cuba... But Taiwan will do...
And Vietnam, South Korea, the Philippines—China’s already got more than enough to handle without U.S. troops getting involved.
My son in law is.
Why would a country that owns most of your debt and much of your real estate and depends on you for much of their food sources attempt to go to war with you?.........LOL!
I am afraid you are, uh, significantly in error. As of now, the federal debt is about $26.73 trillion. As of December 2019 - the most recent date for which I could find figures quickly - China owns $1.08 trillion in US federal debt, or about 4%. By any measure, that is not "most of your debt". Given China's status as a creditor nation, as opposed to ours as a debtor nation, I doubt they would care about writing off a trillion dollars in US debt if it meant taking Taiwan. The domestic propaganda victory, combined with Taiwan's immense economic value, is worth far more than that.
In addition, China does not buy that much food from us. As of 2017, they were buying about $18.1 billion in food products from the US - less than it buys from Brazil (about $22 billion). They sell us about a third of that - $6 billion or so. China consumes 420 million metric tons of grain per year as of 2018, 95% of which it produces domestically, so again, it is wildly inaccurate to state that they "depend on [us] for much of their food sources". Indeed, war with the United States wouldn't have much of an impact, if any, on their domestic food supply.
tl;dr You are, in fact, completely wrong.
“My son in law is.”
And what does he think?
“war with the United States wouldn’t have much of an impact, if any, on their domestic food supply.”
That would depend on what kind of war it is.
He saw enough crap in Iraq and Somalia. He is trying to get out. But they are coming at him hard to stay. Next deployment would be Europe.
such as?
Every statement was false or half truth at best.
One thing was somewhat true, but still distorted and out of context.
Its a lovely place and they should be very proud of the society they have created, but everything I said about Taiwan is true.
No.
Partial or half true at best, out of context and out of date.
Didn’t china just recently lose a significant amount of agricultural production capability due to a dam failure?
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