No need to invade when their economy collapses internally and Beijing can step up to buy the whole island out from the bargain basement bin.
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innermeerkat@jlai.lu 9 months ago
That’s all cool and nice, but let’s see what happens to the prices when Taiwan gets invaded.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
There’s still the rest of the global electronics market
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Good news for Korea and Japan, I guess
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Had a friend of mine say that this wouldn’t happen because “Trump hates China so he’ll defend Taiwan”
Paddzr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah the poor soul! Having to hear about the Ukraine war!!! He’s just too precious, how dare we inconvenience him by keep this in the news???
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Even my girlfriend, who doesn’t really do politics, turned to me and said “but surely Putin then just goes after his next target like Hitler did”
It’s pretty telling when someone who struggles with politics in general understands it better than a guy who spent time in Afghanistan.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And that’s exactly it. Putin has literally made no secret that he wants to take back, by force, every former SSR he can’t force into CSTO. The Baltics, Moldova, Poland, Finland probably. Then south to Georgia, Armenia, and who knows where it’ll stop - maybe he’ll be dumb enough (and live long enough) to try to start Afghanistan War #4.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 months ago
Ah… appeasement. Certainly that worked out for everybody involved…