Most surveys you encounter are published to either change your mind (see, your view is a weird minority take) or reinforce your viewpoint (see, smart people thi

Most surveys you encounter are published to either change your mind (see, your view is a weird minority take) or reinforce your viewpoint (see, smart people think the same way, you must be smart). Taiwan is a shit show. If we had a magic wand, of course they should be defended from ChiCom aggression. We don’t have a magic wand. We don’t have the political or cultural willpower to get into winnable kinetic conflict with China. Witnessing the buffoons running the military/intelligence apparatus in the US today, who would want to entrust their kids’ lives to it in a new land war in Asia? The best this country could do is unshackle Japan and Korea and let the chips fall where they may, hoping if things got bad enough that India had some influence in the outcome as well. Sad, but if the world did nothing as the Crimean peninsula was annexed, or as Hong Kong was blatantly steamrollered, I have a hard time putting faith in any western power going to the mat for Taiwan, whether France, Germany, or UK. Nobody’s in the global empire business anymore for all intents and purposes, even China. China’s has an increasing level of influence in the world but it’s territorial interests, while expansive, are all close to home.