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>The Biden administration is perceived as weak gobally, which is unacceptable for a superpower - that gets millions of people killed until the US demonstrates d

>The Biden administration is perceived as weak gobally, which is unacceptable for a superpower - that gets millions of people killed until the US demonstrates dominance again. >Russia decided to nuke Beijing because they wouldn't take no for an answer, but the US foolishly told them not to. >So here we are, on the brink of war There seem to be some wildly conflicting points here? Are you advocating for the use of nukes and also complaining about warmongers?

redis_mlc 6y ago
Perhaps you're not a native English speaker, or you did not read my post carefully. I'm saying, as all knowledgeable people are saying, that the US needs to stay strong, and be perceived as strong, to act as a deterrent to war. Nobody wants nuclear war, but we're literally on the brink with the CCP. They have been in a Cold War with us since the first Taiwan Strait conflict and Korean War in the 1950s, but US leaders just didn't listen to their rhetoric. (If you follow news from China, their current leaders have publicly suggested sending two ships for every US one, and ramming and sinking the US ships.) This is not well-known, but Xi was the mid-level leader behind the Scarborough Shoals (Philippines islands) takeover in 2012 under the Obama administration, and is now General Secretary. That was the beginning of the 9 dashed-line issues, but could have been stopped by Obama. Now some of those islands have missile batteries, so there has been escalation. Xi got away with it then, and none of the trade deals or WTO rulings have been honored. So CCP perception is that the US is a paper tiger at this point, and usually that requires war to sort out, as with Hitler in WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Shoal_standoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Shoal_standoff

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>The Biden administration is perceived as weak gobally, which is unacceptable for a superpower - that gets millions of people killed until the US demonstrates d

by snypher 6y ago

redis_mlc 6y ago
Perhaps you're not a native English speaker, or you did not read my post carefully. I'm saying, as all knowledgeable people are saying, that the US needs to stay strong, and be perceived as strong, to act as a deterrent to war. Nobody wants nuclear war, but we're literally on the brink with the CCP. They have been in a Cold War with us since the first Taiwan Strait conflict and Korean War in the 1950s, but US leaders just didn't listen to their rhetoric. (If you follow news from China, their current leaders have publicly suggested sending two ships for every US one, and ramming and sinking the US ships.) This is not well-known, but Xi was the mid-level leader behind the Scarborough Shoals (Philippines islands) takeover in 2012 under the Obama administration, and is now General Secretary. That was the beginning of the 9 dashed-line issues, but could have been stopped by Obama. Now some of those islands have missile batteries, so there has been escalation. Xi got away with it then, and none of the trade deals or WTO rulings have been honored. So CCP perception is that the US is a paper tiger at this point, and usually that requires war to sort out, as with Hitler in WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Shoal_standoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Shoal_standoff