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It's so fucking evil how Western media ignores how and why "Taiwan" exists. They don't even call it by it's own name, the RoC. It's a deliberate framing to make it look like the PRC just wants to "invade" just because muh evil commies.
Aaaaaaaah I hate it.
I think it's quite a good thing, actually. It makes it very easy to undermine the propaganda, when you expose why a situation exists in the first place to someone spouting said propaganda without knowing the history. Same goes like double for Korea.
It's especially funny the way all the geopolitics for toddlers explainers switch between "Taiwan is the most important part of all of this and linchpin of the first island chain" and "Look at all the claims on the South China Sea, the PRC's one is evil and greedy. Why didn't we draw Taiwan's claim on the map too? No reason."
The glitch: Peaceful reunification, because even somehow winning a conflict against the world's largest economy, 100 miles off your coast, that has been preparing for this for half a century, is far, far worse than the alternative.
Then again, if Ukraine is anything to go by, we're gonna get some comprador gov't put a rifle in every man, woman, and child's hands, followed by the US bombing TSMC.
A Taiwanese tycoon has announced his plan to train 3.3 million “civilian warriors” and marksmen to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, using one billion Taiwan dollars ($32m) of his own money.
The announcement by Robert Tsao, a well-known Taiwanese businessman and founder of United Microelectronics Corp, a major microchip producer, comes amid increasing military activity between Taiwan and China. On Thursday Taiwan’s defence ministry announced its soldiers had shot down a Chinese drone over Taiwan’s Kinmen islands.
At a press conference on Thursday, Tsao, 75, said the Chinese Communist party (CCP) threat to Taiwan was growing. Wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet, he pledged funds to train “three million people in three years”. Working with the island’s civilian defence organisation, the Kuma Academy, 60% of the funds would go towards building an army of “warriors”, and 40% to training another 300,000 in how to shoot.
i love private militias run by random billionaires we need more of those come on elon come on bezos what are y'all waiting for get to it
to train 3.3 million “civilian warriors” and marksmen to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, using one billion Taiwan dollars ($32m)
Ten dollars per guy seems suspiciously cheap
At that price, why don't we have our own army?
Real "Enemy at the Gates" one rifle for two men vibe
It's because Taiwan numbah one. You wouldn't understand.
but Taiwan already has mandatory military service? Though it wouldn't surprise me if dudes never even touch a gun and just spend their conscription years cleaning toilets and driving their COs around town.
The irony of this guy trying to have a low cost Guerilla army a la Viet Cong or the early PLA to fight against the CPC is lost to him, I guess.
Oh yes, 14% of the population will definitely sign up to fight for this guy who to them is like, their neighbor's boss' boss. That's just an insane fraction of the population to have in the military, on the same kind of scale as the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.
Nah there isnt a fervent anti-China nationalist mythology and hatred among the Taiwanese at nearly the degree that has been constructed in Ukraine for a century now. Much different cultural mindsets too. Taiwan would fold socialy in any attempt to have them fight any attritional, mass mobilization war against the Chinese. Ukraine had hundreds of thousands of fascists frothing in the mouth for Russian blood with penetration at every level of politics and civil society , let alone the army. And a russophobic population ready to jump into "this is an existential war that we must fight till the last man" narrative fed to them. There wont be any mass ability or willingness to die by the tens of thousands on a war against the mainland. Hell they would probably fold after 2 weeks of Naval blockade of Oil/Gas/coal if the US doesnt try to break it, let alone fight on trenches on the beaches
tl'dr; Taiwanese aren't mayos
Then again, if Ukraine is anything to go by, we're gonna get some comprador gov't put a rifle in every man, woman, and child's hands, followed by the US bombing TSMC.
Nah, the PRC is too busy bribing Taiwanese top brass to surrender for that to happen.
"And then the communism particles just bounce off the free market forcefield"
This dudes videos keep getting recommended to me and I hate it.
I think I watched Boy Boy and I Did A Thing on Hasan's stream dunking on a RealLifeLore video on China so the AI thinks I care about RLL. Shit sucks
his voice and manner of speech are very annoying
the channel name also reminds me of what happened in 2010 with the term "food porn". It's just pictures of food, but they gotta call it "porn" because sexbrained, and it's just geography/geopolitics but we gotta call it "lore" now because gamerbrained
Is it the same “taiwan has mountains in the middle of the island making the invasion hard” and “we can always nuke the three gorges dam and collapse the ccp” rhetoric strategies?
That shit has been Taiwan tabloid tv level geopolitical strategy.
It's like the Asian version of British chuds harping on about the all-powerful Royal Navy when they don't even know how to steer a ship
Shoutout to the HMS Shittington and that other ship
Their brand new carrier on cinder blocks being stripped for parts will never stop being funny.
They heard the Chinese ~~slaves~~ cleaners were being replaced by a not-as-delectable underclass, so they decided why even bother
They don’t need to have a navy. The strategy implies that the US would step in.
So you know the rammification
Part of me has to wonder: what are the impacts on national self-identity of being utterly reliant on a third-party for defense against the historical opposing nation? It has to be one of those things nationalists shove under the rug, right?
Like how Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state.
Or how Americans pretend the French didn’t win the bourgeois revolution for us.
Like how Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state.
Remember the Alamo, just not its context
tbh, any national right wing capitalist states from the modern era are mostly propped up by imperial powers. The nationalistic narratives is mostly for local consumption and a way to discipline the population.
Any actual nationalistic aspiration is viable if it is Left wing and anti-capitalist because its main goal is to break away from the imperial system.
The island that imports almost all of its fuel and most of its food will rely on the country that can't even protect commercial shipping from the Houthis in the event of conflict with the producer of the world's most sophisticated anti-ship weapons.
What could go wrong?
The US is counting on them to become a desperate vassal state that they can turn into a military base just like Australia and a bunch of other struggling island nations
I wonder if the US will learn any lessons from the current situation in the Middle East where a bunch of forward bases which are difficult to resupply and cannot mutually support each other are more of a liability than an asset.
Probably not.
They won't.
They will continue to keep losing wars until they collapse under their own weight like the Roman Empire, because they believe in some spiritual and/or pseudoscientific woo about manifest destiny, wealth, and whiteness making them the world's main characters or some shit. They really believe they're the world's chosen people.
Those aren't "forward deployed bases", sweaty, they're "trip wire" bases. 
Popcorn shortage 
Are they going to call China a hacker and lamer when it inevitably takes over?
"wtf lag! Hax! 
UN ban them!"
Hey cracker dipshit, I know nobody has had the heart to tell you, but you need to hear it: no amount of stock footage infotainment sludge is going to stop China.
The channel is the biggest cope I've seen in a whlie
if you want to know the level of analysis we're dealing with, this dude has a video basically titled 'North Korea is going to attack ukriane'
HOI4 late game
Second image tshirt: Buddhism but crap
It have you considered that karma and ELO are very similar systems? /joke
The lore guy can't even get Kinmen Island right.
they won't
The Gorbino's Quest of Geopolitics
I can't imagine seing an invasion or large scale attack on Taiwan. What I absolutely can imagine is seeing them go the way of Tibet, where they start cooperating and China is all carrot and no stick, and then you just stop hearing about them in Western media. And that would honestly be just fine.
Question: Why hasn't Taiwan been fully taken over by China yet? I think there is a case to be made that China won't invade Taiwan because it feels like it should have happened already. I'm guessing it boils down to 'white people' the same way it does with HK, just curious
Because the CPC is confident that Taiwan will reunify peacefully over time so reunification by force is a waste of lives and money. Remember that the DPP separatists being in power is relatively recent and for most of the post civil war timeframe, the KMT position has gone from "we'll retake the mainland" to "we're the real China" to "We need to work with the mainland".
because China and Taiwan are mostly intertwined in terms of the economic activities. The main issues with the island and the peripheries are: a good position for Americans/Chinese to park their warships, hide their submarines and monitoring South-East Chinese/Pacific coast.
Also, the issue of independence or secession is a good way to prop up nationalistic sentiments for both sides when convenient