• freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Goddamn, with the amount of negative coverage coming from Reuters, NYT, and other US/UK propaganda outfits, it really feels like the new military goal is to undermine support for the war, which means either the USA is scrambling to react to other events (Africa, China, Okinawa, India) or they want to further expand the red/blue divide in advance of the election.

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      1 year ago

      Are you surprised? People in Washington are openly talking about how they should be focusing on China under the assumption that China will somehow make the decision to seize Taiwan tomorrow… As if they haven’t been posturing about that literally since the end of the civil war and done nothing except increase trade, open up immigration, and increase cultural coupling with Taiwan.

      The US needs an enemy to justify their extreme military budget and China is the bogeyman of the decade.

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        1 year ago

        I am a little surprised because it’s not like they didn’t know about China as their target back in '08. I’m wondering about why it’s shifting now

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            1 year ago

            I mean, they did mostly leave it alone. The only real changes I’m aware of is they extended their national security apparatus to Hong Kong as part of one country two systems. Is that what you’re referring to or am I missing something?