The Biden Presidency

Jaw said:
Not coming to Taiwan's aid would be the equivalent of letting the Sovie Union annex West Germany during the Cold War. It would tell Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia, and everyone else west of Wake Island that they have to submit to China because the US is an undependable ally. We would lose Cold War 2 in the first confrontation and immediately transition from Pax Americana to Pax Sinica.
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I don't see an invasion of Taiwan as something the US would take sitting down. I think we'd probably be involved from the start. But if China chose it's moment well with a President that's hesitant to go toe to toe with China, I think we could see a situation where we just respond with sanctions. I don't think it would be a good thing but I do see it as a possible outcome.
 
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striker42 said:
I don't see an invasion of Taiwan as something the US would take sitting down. I think we'd probably be involved from the start. But if China chose it's moment well with a President that's hesitant to go toe to toe with China, I think we could see a situation where we just respond with sanctions. I don't think it would be a good thing but I do see it as a possible outcome.
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China doesn’t have a big enough naval fleet equipped to invade Taiwan. They’d need to use every fishing vessel they have to carry soldiers across the strait and by the time that happens Taiwan would be so well defended. It would be interesting to see how many countries get thier licks in against China, if they did invade Taiwan.
 
Krgrecw said:
China doesn’t have a big enough naval fleet equipped to invade Taiwan. They’d need to use every fishing vessel they have to carry soldiers across the strait and by the time that happens Taiwan would be so well defended. It would be interesting to see how many countries get thier licks in against China, if they did invade Taiwan.
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They could turn Taiwan into a parking lot with short-range missiles. Nothing we can do to stop that. Of course we can retaliate in various asymmetric ways.
 
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striker42 said:
I will agree that in our hyper partisan world, bipartisan has changed. What it means now is "you should give up and agree with me." Any side that doesn't just capitulate and support what the other side wants is not acting in a bipartisan manner. It's going to take the parties getting out from under the thumb of their extremes to break this.

However, I don't think that's what the writer was saying. I think he was confusing bipartisan with something enjoying broad support. They are not the same thing.
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Rep. Don Beyer
@RepDonBeyer
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The House just took up the first bill for the week, legislation to honor US Capitol Police,

Metropolitan Police, and others who protected the Capitol during the January 6 attack.

As part of Marjorie Taylor Greene's delay tactics,

House Republicans just moved to slow its passage.

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“Everything that Democratic Senates did to Presidents Bush and Trump,
everything the Republican Senate did to President Obama, would be child’s
play compared to the disaster that Democrats would create for their own priorities if
— if — they break the Senate,”
said Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader.
“The most mundane task of the Biden presidency would actually be harder — harder, not easier —
for Democrats in a post-nuclear Senate.”

earlier in his statement he pointed out should (R) regain majority he has no taste for discussing policy, any policy , with
(D)
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You were saying ?
 
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Krgrecw said:
China doesn’t have a big enough naval fleet equipped to invade Taiwan. They’d need to use every fishing vessel they have to carry soldiers across the strait and by the time that happens Taiwan would be so well defended. It would be interesting to see how many countries get thier licks in against China, if they did invade Taiwan.
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They have been on a massive naval expansion over the last decade and now have a larger surface fleet than we have. They build more surface combatants in a year than we build ships.
 
People are somehow still naive to what China is capable of and what they are actively doing.

The media has served the CCPs purpose well.

RUSSIA!
 
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They only got away with it because the traditional republican establishment are a bunch of crooked pussies.

**** them all.
 
Krgrecw said:
China doesn’t have a big enough naval fleet equipped to invade Taiwan. They’d need to use every fishing vessel they have to carry soldiers across the strait and by the time that happens Taiwan would be so well defended. It would be interesting to see how many countries get thier licks in against China, if they did invade Taiwan.
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I'll link to a blog that pulls quotes from a CNN article that accompanied the graph, to avoid giving them the click.

https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/do-not-act-shocked-do-not-avert-your

China was already in the midst of a shipbuilding spree like few the world has ever seen. In 2015, Xi undertook a sweeping project to turn the PLA into a world-class fighting force, the peer of the United States military. He had ordered investments in shipyards and technology that continue at pace today.

By at least one measurement, Xi's plan has worked. At some point between 2015 and today, China has assembled the world's largest naval force. And now it's working to make it formidable far from its shores.

In 2015, the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) had 255 battle force ships in its fleet, according to the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).

As of the end of 2020, it had 360, over 60 more than the US Navy, according to an ONI forecast.

Four years from now, the PLAN will have 400 battle force ships, the ONI predicts.

Go back to 2000, and the numbers are even more stark.

"China's navy battle force has more than tripled in size in only two decades," read a December report by the leaders of the US Navy, Marines and Coast Guard.
 
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There was a lot of talk around here regarding my kids in cages just a few short years ago. Wonder why that stopped?
 
The kids in cages thing is the most hilarious display of partisan hackers though...

It was THE story in Trump days. Complete buffoons like nsacpi harped on it endlessly.

Today it is 3x worse thanks DIRECTLY to a Boden policy change and...?

Crickets
 
Lol remember the boards most naive idiot assured us that Trump was running around stealing mail boxes?

Nice of WAPO here to wait 4 months after election to clear that conspiracy hoax up

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sturg33 said:
Lol remember the boards most naive idiot assured us that Trump was running around stealing mail boxes?

Nice of WAPO here to wait 4 months after election to clear that conspiracy hoax up

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Comical
 
Judge Emmet Sullivan, who essentially took over mail-in ballot handling operations, says hello.

Btw I'm kinda shocked at this bad faith posting from a publication well-known for making facts and quotes up. What's up with that.
 
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