Comment by clarionbell
7 hours ago
Dependence on foreign power with potentially misaligned goal? Collapse of manufacturing sector, leading to rise in poverty?
7 hours ago
Dependence on foreign power with potentially misaligned goal? Collapse of manufacturing sector, leading to rise in poverty?
> Dependence on foreign power with potentially misaligned goal? Collapse of manufacturing sector, leading to rise in poverty?
Note that this has been the reality of countries in the Third World who aligned themselves with the US, a foreign power whose interests were misaligned with theirs.
The US is now having a taste of their own medicine.
Not just the third world. Plenty of first-world countries too.
Now? The lower and middle class in the US has been dealing with this for decades.
There is no misaligned goal. China isn’t out to destroy the US.
It’s more jealousy of being overpowered. It’s sad but I think this is ultimately the brutal truth we have to accept. There’s no other logical outlook on this. Literally if left to its own devices China isn’t interested in the war.
The US is out to do everything to stop Chinas ascendency to become the new world power. And of course both sides as a result will increase military presence but neither side wants to engage in war.
Why have they built innovative Taiwan invasion barges if they do not want war?
Building weapons to sink American carriers and boats and having a limited nuclear arsenal can be seen as trying to prevent the US from being able to blockade China from it's food and energy imports.
But there is no possible way to wave away the literal Taiwan invasion barges and the planning they signal. That's not something you build unless you plan on invading your island neighbor.
They want Taiwan. That's for sure. But they don't want war. War is a last resort action they will go to, to get Taiwan.
But war with the US? They don't want it and are trying to avoid it at all costs.
Taiwan is none of the US's business right? The war here is in actuality really just the US starting it. The US in the end will have to make a choice here. Do we fuck with China and Taiwan or do we not?
So in short. They want Taiwan. War can happen because the US is trying to start war. So the barges you see are in preperation for that.