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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Israel: does a genocide

  China: flies a plane near a country they’ve been at war with for over 70 years

  Liberals: “hmm yes these seem about the same to me”

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  • ManixT@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who said anything about being the same? Israel is the worst offender in the world.

    China is planning for an invasion of Taiwan, so they’re certainly putting together a backup plan in case Taiwan doesn’t agree to become part of China. Doesn’t seem like they’d need that sort of thing if they were being truly peaceful.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      China is planning for an invasion of Taiwan,

      Yeah, they’ve been planning to invade next week for decades now…

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      • ManixT@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, they literally are planning for an invasion. Whether they will is up for debate, but they’re definitely designing their naval fleet for it and performing exercises simulationing an invasion.

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    • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      China is planning for an invasion of Taiwan, so they’re certainly putting together a backup plan

      Yes, a backup plan for a potential case of Taiwan being used as a static US aircraft carrier against it in a war. You remember that they’re still at war, right? No peace treaty was ever signed between the KMT and the CPC.

      Look at your own source:

      Shortly after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s arrival in Taipei, China announced plans to hold live-fire drills

      It’s almost as if the drills are a response to something other than just Taipei not yet being willing to re-unify.

      I also note that the bright red symbols on the mark connote a sense of urgency and yet this is from 2022. Obviously the invasion must be happening any day now…

      The map also references other drills from 1995-1996 which I note are denoted as “Third Taiwan Strait Crisis”… If they were at 3 crises by 1996, I can’t imagine how many crises we’ve had since, considering liberals have been unable to shut the fuck up about this for decades.

      Please, calm down, you are being reactionary.

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      • ManixT@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right. Reactionary. That must be why china is requiring that all civilian ferries are capable of RORO of tank sized vehicles and why they’re building massive landing barges capable of handling landing on Taiwan’s rocky coasts.

        Taiwan has every right to be concerned with an invasion because it’s what china keeps saying.

        So, no, you don’t get to wave your propaganda wand and make a very real issue go away.

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe ALL imperialism is war.

    Fucking first worlders, they don’t seem to understand that countries want to be left alone seemingly.

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    • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe ALL imperialism is war.

      That isn’t even true. Imperialism is often spread through soft power. I thought that was the entire point you were making, that China was exerting soft power in an imperialist manner… if China invades Taiwan, I will be right there with you, calling it out, but history has shown that the CPC is quite restrained, and I see no reason for them to change their approach.

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