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How long do you think Taiwan remains an independent country if USA Navy leaves the South China Sea?
by VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
How long do you think Taiwan remains an independent country if USA Navy leaves the South China Sea?
- FredPret 5y agoAlso, Europe would speak Russian if the US left
- theflyinghorse 5y agoI highly doubt this. Historically speaking the invasion dynamic is going the other way - FROM Europe INTO Russia. Russians are scared of the European invasion, not the other way around.
- FredPret 5y agoYes and how did those invasions go? Russia is a fortress due to its size and weather. But when Russia invaded Europe towards the end of WW2, they grabbed all of Poland, half of Germany, and more. They could have gone all the way until the English channel if they wanted, if the US wasn’t there.
- pphysch 5y agoRussia did not literally invade Europe. This is ridiculous revisionism. The Red Army singlehandedly defeated Hitler's eastward invading campaign and pushed it all the way to Berlin.
- FredPret 5y agoSoooo… the Russian army beat a European one and marched several hundred km’s into Europe, but it’s not an invasion? Yes, the European nation attacked first, and the Russian response was 100% justified. The point is that Russia struck back against one of the strongest armies in history, broke its back, and then counter-invaded. They only stopped when they ran into the Allies.
- Apocryphon 5y agoWithout an expansionist- one could say evangelical- ideology like communism in power in Russia, why the heck would Russians care to push west? As any great power they want influence, yes, but it's odd to imagine that 20th century dynamics at their most tumultuous and bloody overshadow all of the previous centuries' default policies.
- theflyinghorse 5y ago> Russia is a fortress due to its size and weather. Most of Russia is considered to be indefensible[0]. Its hardly a fortress by any measure. 0 - https://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.com/2015/11/russia-and-curse-of-geography.html https://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.com/2015/11/russia-...
- pphysch 5y agoThe US doesn't recognize Taiwan as an independent country.
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- VWWHFSfQ 5y agodo you know why
- pphysch 5y agoBecause there are more factors beyond the long-standing ideological project to spread the doctrine of NATO (hiding behind terms like "democracy" and "human rights") around the world. For instance, the US has an enormous mutual economic interest with PRC, and recognizing ROC's claim to virtually all of mainland China (the PRC) would be enormously complicate that crucial material relationship. ROC and PRC are mutually exclusive concepts because they claim the same territory, and PRC is the far more valuable economic partner.