Putin's audacious invasion of Ukraine has made me realize that authoritarian leaders/regimes even today are still willing to use military force. Even if their calculus seems irrational to us.Maybe General Minihan wasn't far off in his memo last month.
I still can't see a war happening, both sides knowing the number of reality costs that come with including a total economic collapse.
They have far closer Western aligned countries, are they not going to tolerate those either? Taiwan will hold it's own and will have help from other countries, unless Chinese nuke it, they'll have many many issues trying to take and hold the island.Putin's audacious invasion of Ukraine has made me realize that authoritarian leaders/regimes even today are still willing to use military force. Even if their calculus seems irrational to us.
While I think the CCP are much smarter than Putin, at the end of the day I don't think they will permanently tolerate a Western-oriented Taiwan near the Chinese mainland.
I reckon Taiwan is a more sensitive issue for China than other Western-oriented Asian countries though.They have far closer Western aligned countries, are they not going to tolerate those either? Taiwan will hold it's own and will have help from other countries, unless Chinese nuke it, they'll have many many issues trying to take and hold the island.
I would lean towards the US being able to track them down and that these are just ongoing Chinese operations rather than something new.I'm assuming all those ballons have been flying around for a while, and it's just a question of that the Americans now know about them and are able to track them down? Or is China going all out suddenly?
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/biden-alaska-military-down/index.htmlThe US has developed a method to track China’s spy balloon fleet within the last year, CNN reported exclusively on Friday.
F-22 putting in work these days.
I think this shows how advanced china is getting - factory farming was a series of advances by the 20th century's major power (the US), and their rival is now innovating...
I'm not sure that stacking a lot of lifestock on top of each other is a great advancement to be honest. More like another bio-hazard on the horizon.
I'm not sure that stacking a lot of lifestock on top of each other is a great advancement to be honest. More like another bio-hazard on the horizon.
And no sane population would even want to have that smelly thing in the region, even if that's a few miles away from the nearest village.
At this rate, the CCP are clearly asking for direct tit-for-tat of shit flying in their own airspace.
This isn't funny anymore.
Seems that way, I think they have been trying to track this one since yesterday when the first NOTAM was issued in Montana followed by 2 others today over the great lakes.Another one?
Another one?
Blatant.
Having illegal police stations built in non-Chinese territories to have intimidation agents acting against expats and dissidents was bad enough, but this is a whole different level of feckery. The CCP are asking China to end up stamped with the same label of a pariah state that Putin's Russia currently has, and it would not be undeserved at all if this keeps on going as it is.
Putin's Russia is waging an all out, entirely unjustified war that is killing thousands of innocent people.
This is silly low scale irrelevant spy nonsense, just more visibly inept than usual, against a country fully invested in the same adversarial geopolitical bullshit games, one that has a lot more blood on its hands over the last few decades of conflict;. it's not some action egregiously far outside the international norm against a naive, innocent bystander. I swear people like you get off on this Cold War with China escalation fantasy stuff; it reminds me of the presenter's actions on this old british satire clip...
You mean all the spy planes that US had been sending over china airspace and other countries over and over during decades? or all the coding machines that were tampered by US to spy even allies?
US has all the right to defend itself of any thread as they do. But please, give me a break
give me credible source of that please.