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okay guys , so since this hole federation stuff your Pro Imperial Wrong Takes comes my way , it must be corrected ..
this is Taiwans Air Identification Zone
it is a Bullshit leftover that spans so vast over china that it simply can not be not violated ,..
theirby producing the most wonderfull "Permanent - Saturaton - Propaganda" of China Bad Bakround noise for the Imperial core audience in their Echo Chambers .
PS: this is where real Journalist go in the west , when they start beeing critical of non approved subjects.
"Good thing propaganda only ever happens to other people"
I suspect the US has begun moving pawns in anticipation of withdrawing support for Taiwan in the still-distant future.
There are many geopolitical steps that would need to occur first, most likely over the span of many years. But I think the US sees a different future now than it did 20 years ago, and I think they recognize that one day they will not be willing to pay the price that China will be ready to extract over Taiwan.
The initial stage should look like overt fear-mongering, counterintuitively. Money and therefore emotions need to be mobilized in the US to put things into place so that the severance can go smoothly. An aggressive stance is presented as a masquerade of what is going on behind-the-scenes. But what is really happening is that Taiwan is being made redundant.
What is Taiwan's most strategic asset for its allies? Semiconductors. What has the US been pouring money into subsidizing this year? Semiconductors. I think TSMC is more likely to become irrelevant than bombed.
Of course all it takes is one senior leader who drank too much of the koolade for theatre to become war.
They're going to tip the Republic of China in to the ocean as soon as they've stolen all of TSCM's productive capacity. That's all this was ever about. They're building chip fabs in Arizona right now. As soon as the US can produce it's own Chips the RoC is... going to go right back to tense but peaceful relations with the mainland like they had before DC started waving it's grand imperial [redacted] around.
Could be. I was under the impression DC was involved from the very start (didn't the US airlift the KMT into Taiwan?), but crazier things have happened.
Yeah, you can say in a meaningful sense that the US co-founded Taiwan. I personally think that part of the reason the US wants to recreate Taiwan's manufacturing capacity is that it makes Taiwan much more expendable, meaning it can be used for military provocations and even war (as some US generals are openly calling for or predicting) without risking the loss of an irreplaceable economic asset to the US.
That could be, too. If that's the case and Taiwan is wise, though, I think they would probably want to negotiate a surrender well before becoming America's cannon fodder - which would deny it as a forward base for provocations. I also think military leaders are some of America's best actors; they bluff much better than anyone in Hollywood, at least.
"HMP Isis" is certainly... a name.