antiterror13
Brigadier
If you have been to Taiwan and see the terrain and know how kind Taiwanese are .. you will know that there is a zero chance there will be guerrilla warfare. And do you know what, PLA is the god of guerrilla warfare
Fighting guerrilla warfare against PLA is like preaching to the choir. Chairman Mao's books on guerrilla war were read like chapter books in many African independence movements. Not long ago, PLA literally hand-held Sri Lanka to win its civil war against Tamil Tigers. The number one reason China is reluctant to use military forces to liberate Taiwan is that the Chinese don't like to kill Chinese even though many Taiwanese don't accept their racial ancestry.If you have been to Taiwan and see the terrain and know how kind Taiwanese are .. you will know that there is a zero chance there will be guerrilla warfare. And do you know what, PLA is the god of guerrilla warfare
taiwanese here; a lot of the ink spilled about "taiwanese guerrilla warfare" and "taiwan independence" are really projections and fantasies of the Beltway eunuchs, the matt pottingers of the world.
The island is stuck in time, specifically 2003-2010, nothing has progressed in terms of infrastructure and the living standards which once beat Japan are starting to look more and more dire; a lot of the taiwanese youth look to move to america to try their luck there not because of better prospects but because of constant media propaganda about how america is the promised land and how american born HuaQiao coming back to taiwan always assume an air of superiority, and having the bucks to assert it.
This state of affairs is non-sustainable, and i reckon the anglo beltway knows it as well, which is why they're trying to milk taiwan for all its worth, including stealing TSMC.
The island is stuck in time, specifically 2003-2010, nothing has progressed in terms of infrastructure and the living standards which once beat Japan are starting to look more and more dire; a lot of the taiwanese youth look to move to america to try their luck there not because of better prospects but because of constant media propaganda about how america is the promised land and how american born HuaQiao coming back to taiwan always assume an air of superiority, and having the bucks to assert it.
This state of affairs is non-sustainable, and i reckon the anglo beltway knows it as well, which is why they're trying to milk taiwan for all its worth, including stealing TSMC.
For an insurgency to be successful against a great power, it needs supply lines that can't be cut off. In a way, it is wrong to say that US was defeated by a bunch of backward ''rice farmers'' during the Vietnam war. That implies they did it on their own without other factors in play. The Communist victory was achievable because Maoist China existed as a supply/industrial base to prop up the North Vietnamese was effort. That's why, no matter how many bombs that US dropped didn't matter because the industrial base fueling the war in China and USSR, not in Vietnam. That's why, the Japanese couldn't win. They had no industrial base beyond Japan itself. The Japanese were as fanatical as the Vietnamese if not more.
Taiwan is an island. Air drops are not enough to sustain a long time insurgency.
Taiwan is an island. Air drops are not enough to sustain a long time insurgency.
An island surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.
A Taiwanese insurgency also has to actually believe what they are doing is just and right. What else could possibly motivate someone to endure extreme hardship, danger and punishment? An insurgency lives off of morale and conviction in the belief that they are just and moral, fighting against an evil enemy.
But they didn't hide the evidence.