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solarz

solarz

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Coalescence said:
If they are capable of learning, they would have already reunified peacefully long time ago.
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Thinking about this some more, this is as good as a tacit admission that the US will not intervene directly.

Previous TW weapon purchases were all designed to complement a conventional war with the US against China. By making this shift, they are effectively saying TW is on its own.
 
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daifo

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solarz said:
Thinking about this some more, this is as good as a tacit admission that the US will not intervene directly.

Previous TW weapon purchases were all designed to complement a conventional war with the US against China. By making this shift, they are effectively saying TW is on its own.
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More small arms mean they want more Taiwanese bodies to be cannon fodder to absorb Chinese ammunition.
 
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Overbom

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solarz said:
Thinking about this some more, this is as good as a tacit admission that the US will not intervene directly.

Previous TW weapon purchases were all designed to complement a conventional war with the US against China. By making this shift, they are effectively saying TW is on its own.
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Even the CIA's mouthpiece is sending vague signals that Taiwan is on its own. Read between the lines..

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President Biden has said he would keep U.S. troops out of the fight in Ukraine but has authorized shipments of small, mobile weapons that have helped Ukrainian forces defeat the Russian military in critical battles, including around Kyiv, the capital. The Ukrainian military has used an asymmetric strategy to great effect, mounting a dogged resistance against Russian tanks, fighter jets and battalion groups. Ukraine’s arsenal includes Javelin and Stinger missiles as well as armed drones.
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A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would differ from the Russian military’s efforts in Ukraine and be more difficult. Chinese warships would have to cross more than 100 miles of water in the Taiwan Strait and land forces on the island. The Chinese and Taiwanese sides of the strait are bristling with missiles aimed at each other, and the United States and allied nations regularly send warships through the waterway as a show of force.
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Resupplying weapons to a besieged Taiwan, an island, could prove more difficult for the United States and its allies than it has been in Ukraine. As a result, some officials are considering stockpiling large amounts of munitions in Taiwan.
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Coalescence

Coalescence

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Overbom said:
Even the CIA's mouthpiece is sending vague signals that Taiwan is on its own. Read between the lines..

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Seems like they made a new strategy based on how Russia acted (or the lack of therefor) to their escalations, and a looking for a way to prolong the fight while giving them weapons capable of reaching and damaging the mainland. So would it be wise to assume the actions they took against Russia, will be replicated to China when they instigate the crisis?
 
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gelgoog

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Strangelove said:
Qatar also wants to contractually prevent Germany from rerouting the LNG deliveries to other European states, and this measure is not welcome by the EU, the sources said.
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This was the sticking point the EU had with Russia. Russia wanted long term gas contracts and the EU wanted to buy it on demand. But you can't finance prospection, drilling, gas wells, and pipelines on demand can you. Now they think they can also get on demand contracts for LNG. But from what I read 70% of LNG gas volumes are sold with long term contracts and only 30% are sold on demand. Even with LNG you still need to pay for prospection, drilling, gas wells, and liquefaction facilities. Large liquefaction facilities alone can easily cost billions and years to build. Try justifying that on an on demand contract. The EU are being retards. And as a result they will have one of the most expensive gas supplies in the world at this rate.

And talk about switching to renewables is just that. Talk. Since there is no cheap reliable way to store the renewable energy if you go full renewable your electricity will cost 4-6x more than it would otherwise. That will basically kill any energy intensive industry. Europe will be reduced to screwdriver assembly of items manufactured abroad and its industry will collapse. Not that the Greens in Germany would mind that.
 
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