Like the presumption that countries which do not even diplomatically recognize Taiwan would be willing to sacrifice their entire economies and tacitly enter a war against China is so funny

Link to the tweet

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Destroying Shanghai and every other settlement on the Yangtze River is certainly a way to make everyone on the mainland want to mobilize against you

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        fortunately this is just a random internet person and also there is an entire Chinese state there in place to prevent people blowing up the dam

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It would be completely reasonable to treat an attack on the three gorges dam as the equivalent of a nuclear strike both in the devastation and deaths it would cause. This is legitimately the one exception to the no first strike rule that would be entirely justified.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      the dam bursting would also destroy Vietnamese rainforest. I'm SURE making Vietnam mad would have no major consequences.

  • AtomicBeans [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Day 1: Commit unspeakable war crimes by attempting to drown thousands of civilians.

    Day 2: Put poison into the water to kill off any survivors.

    Day 3: All ethnic Chinese people are rounded up into prison camps.

    Day 802: Democracy and rule of law prevails.

  • sempersigh [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Seriously how do they even think they would give weapons to those areas logistically_ are they literally going to fly over Tibet and parachute weapons. I swear to God people think you can just "do a land lease and send volunteers" like this is hearts of iron

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      They did try to parachute SpecOps in the region during the cold war. One example of it is when the CIA sent people to tibet. The cell didn’t survive iirc

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    2 years ago

    I have no idea why every Westerner hates this particular dam.

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Because it demonstrates the rise of China. The world’s largest dam, an engineering marvel, does not exist in the west. It exists in a place that the west, in its heart of hearts, genuinely believes to be inferior. It’s so obvious. The same exact thing happened in the 80s and 90s with Japan too when it looked like it might even overtake the US economically

      • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        No it exists. It’s called the Hoover Dam and the most notable thing about it is that a QAnon follower drove there and shot at it before getting arrested

    • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It’s destruction would kill millions of Asians.

      It’s also larger than any Western Dams.

      Hatred and Jealousy arm in arm.

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It will continue to hold water in 20 years, unlike the Hoover dam, which will have run dry

  • Redcuban1959 [any]
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    2 years ago

    In case of #China's invasion, Taiwan will not defend itself, and the US will bomb Taipei and all their military industry in the first day of invasion. Together with its western allies, #Taiwan will also lose all their scientists and start preparing for reunification with #China.

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Unironically if China invaded Taiwan I could see the U.S. taking out the chip factories to hurt China

      • CetaceanPosadist
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        2 years ago

        i thought there were plans revealed to do exactly that and evacuate all the key personnel to america

        my understanding was destroying taiwans chip industry and stealing their experts is likely most of the reason america is trying to provoke an invasion right now

          • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-12/no-need-to-blow-up-tsmc-in-china-war-taiwan-security-chief-says

            Use archive.is

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I really doubt Taiwan appreciate someone trying to bait China into a war with Taiwan

    also these liberals don't care about Taiwan they want China to invade

  • kkitsuragisleftnut [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I hate how transparent anti-China propaganda is and people just eat it up. It's depressing.

  • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It wild how bad these types really want this to happen. They're just begging for it even. Very deranged