Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

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sheogorath

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tankphobia said:
it is the army of cold, calculating strategists behind the scene that sets out the overall geopolitical strokes of the country to dominate both its allies and foes alike
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They haven't had those at least for a while now. I dare say since George "Mission Accomplished" Bush days and it has been on a steady decline since then. Blunders like ISIS, Libya, Syria, the back-and-forth with the Iranian deal, the overuse of the threat of sanctions even on allies.

The last of its calculating Kissinger-like strategists was Madeleine Albright. From then on, is mostly failsons like McFaul, Frum and Bolton, at least the ones they have been listening to.
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Despite all the efforts of its rivals for the past 200+ years, it has not only endured and prospered, but also remain the most powerful military force for 70 years and counting.
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Empires do tend to last 200 years on average, so the US isn't particularly exceptional on this either and it coming to an end would fit the historical trend.

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but rest assured their foreign department is as shrewd as back in the yesteryears when the US would roll over central America to get cheaper fruit.
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I'm guessing thats why a coup in Venezuela got blunted by a bunch of fishermen. It was the plan all along, right?
 
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tankphobia said:
I feel like the narrative of the US being a declining power is way overblown in this thread, the most terrifying thing about the American empire is not its front facing presidents and unending list of problems that people think would sink it, it is the army of cold, calculating strategists behind the scene that sets out the overall geopolitical strokes of the country to dominate both its allies and foes alike. Playing its allies off against its enemy and never having to suffer too high a cost to achieve its aims.
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Just lmfao. So many levels of wrong. If US was the geopolitical chess master you paint it to be it would have strangled an infant China in its crib in 1980. We wouldn't be here today having this discussion.
 
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There's a lot of personal attacks in this thread, so I will try to be as objective and brief as I can.

  • It's pretty clear that this is a demonstration of China's intentions in the event of an invasion
  • It won't be an amphibious assault on day 1. There will be a blockade and then massive artillery fire
  • The US probably doesn't have any counter to this even today
  • So the only real question is who will bear the highest economic cost.
  • Right now CCP judges that they have more to lose (rightfully IMO) so they choose to wait.
All in all, I think they have largely played their hand right. The only criticism I have is that the idiots at the ministry of foreign affairs should haven't lost their marbles with insane rhetoric. Xi needs to put a dampener on them.
 
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