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> Personally? Sitting about 40km from a priority US target, I'd support the US risking a strike to guarantee Taiwan's freedom What? That doesn’t make sense. If
by dalyons 6y ago
> Personally? Sitting about 40km from a priority US target, I'd support the US risking a strike to guarantee Taiwan's freedom
What? That doesn’t make sense. If the US triggered nuke slinging over Taiwan the Taiwanese would be ash, not free.
- ethbr0 6y agoWhy would China nuke Taiwan?
- baq 6y agoout of spite. they'd get glassed anyway, so why not use those nukes for something?
- ethbr0 6y agoBecause that's literally the land the hypothetical war would have been started to capture? Because the casus belli to their public has been that it's (PRC) Chinese land by historical and cultural right? Because the entire domestic and international point of provoking a Strait war would be to demonstrate China's strength? It's a pretty bad look if your "winning" looks like "killed millions of people and rendered the land in question uninhabitable for a decade+." (To say nothing of the potential non-Taiwan collateral damage)
- unixhero 6y agoAnd retalliation would be immediate and dooming. Mutually assured destruction
- Der_Einzige 6y agoWe can shoot down some of those nukes. Maybe china has to fire 20 on taiwan before one of them gets through our anti-ICBM weapons on our naval ships. Means that we might come out of a war with china with only a few cities lost. Might actually be worth it.
- FpUser 6y ago>"Means that we might come out of a war with china with only a few cities lost. Might actually be worth it." How generous of you. Hopefully you'll be in one of those cities at the moment.
- Leary 6y agoBetter Dead Than Red is alive and well, hahahaha.