Hans, are we ze baddies?
President Xi Jinping of China has ordered his armed forces to be ready to seize Taiwan by 2027.
Like seriously, all these “CHINA IS ABOUT TO INVADE TAIWAN!!!1!” articles actually come across as, “We really really hope China invades Taiwan because it would be convenient for our continuing military-industrial buildup and also our ongoing propaganda campaign.” Even if China had anything to gain from invading (I don’t see any actual benefit to it, but I’m also a dumbass so whatever), surely all the fervor the anglophonic world has at the idea would be enough to dissuade them.
The United States has not always used its military effectively or for just causes.
understatement of the century
An entrenched oligopoly of five large defense contractors, down from 51 in the early 1990s, has an interest in selling the Pentagon ever-costlier evolutions of the same ships, planes and missiles.
That’s a significant amount of consolidation and yet I’ve never heard this statistic before. Lol.
The strategic challenges the United States faces — among them a rising China, a revanchist Russia and A.I.-generated cyber threats and bio threats — will outlast this administration
please tell me more about these A.I.-generated bio threats, they sound super duper real
I mean, they’re blaming Russia and China. Anyone with half a brain can see they’re just manufacturing consent for Cold War 2.0. Against the same goddamn countries as the first bloody Cold War. No creativity, these Washington warmongers. Unfortunately, a lot of people who lived through the Cold War bought it then, learned nothing in the decades after hostilities officially ceased, and will buy it again.
overall conclusion:
it’ll be fun when Taiwan votes for unification and then America says WAY NOT LIKE THAT
China needs Taiwan to enforce its claim on the south China sea. But i don’t think they’re going to need a military annexation, my bet is in a political re integration, where Taiwan keeps some of their independence.
Unless I’m mistaken, that’s effectively already where they’re at with Taiwan. A Taiwanese passport, drivers license and such are all valid and accepted in mainland China.
I think that user means more like the PRC making it into a Special Administrative Region or something (which I am pretty sure the PRC says is its goal too).
A ton of US seals use eagles holding either 3 or 13 arrows. 3 is specifically used by the Department of War which is why it’s used here.
The seal of the US Senate actually uses fasces directly, but had been doing so for over 100 years by the time Mussolini got around to them.
I can’t find a good source but I believe that the bundle of arrows is actually Haudenosaunee symbolism, not Roman or fascist. The founding fathers were, at the very least, familiar with Haudenosaunee use of bundles of arrows to represent unity.
Dumbass rhetoric of everything being competition.
It being golden reminds me of Napoleon, actually, but that still works.
