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It's not appeasement. It's just not worth it. Wasting American blood in a region built up to be defensible specifically against the Americans to save a governme
by crocodiletears 6y ago
It's not appeasement. It's just not worth it. Wasting American blood in a region built up to be defensible specifically against the Americans to save a government that mostly only exists out of spite seems like a poor investment.
The kind of withdrawal I described would likely be accompanied by the expulsion of all non-immigrant Chinese nationals, a military build-up in friendly regional territories, and deployments in anticipation of blockading Chinese energy imports.
- NotSammyHagar 6y agoWhat govt do you mean exists only out of spite? You can't mean Taiwan. It's a real country. They are a democracy.
- crocodiletears 6y agoIt is a real country, with a real Democracy. But if it weren't for an implicit threat of US intervention, it likely wouldn't be. My point is that its existence strikes me more as an artifact of America's of geopolitical posturing and, a policy of containment left over from the cold war than anything else.