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This is unrealistic from an Asian perspective. The US has actually lost three proxy wars with China on the other side (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan) and what is
by woweoe 4y ago
This is unrealistic from an Asian perspective. The US has actually lost three proxy wars with China on the other side (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan) and what is happening in Ukraine is a total mess that no Asian country wants to be in. The US also did not manage to unite the world (including most of the Asian continent) against Russia.
The idea that the US will be willing defend Taiwan fiercely when the US did not do the same for Ukraine, against a foe that is much mightier than Russia, is silly. No country in the world wants to descend to the levels that Ukraine had gone.
- nradov 4y agoThe US is not an ally of Ukraine. We never had any kind of commitment to defend them. We give them weapons and other support as a way of knocking Russia down and preventing them from threatening our actual allies. The situation with Taiwan is completely different due to the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, and official policy statements by multiple presidential administrations since then. The US would absolutely defend Taiwan against a major attack. The question is how far that commitment goes? If China uses tactical nuclear weapons at sea, would the US escalate or back off? No one knows what would really happen in that scenario...
- aerostable_slug 4y agoIt's also worth pointing out that United States spent a significant amount of effort to prevent Taiwan's indigenous nuclear weapons program from reaching fruition. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-01-10/taiwans-bomb https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-0... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Hsien-yi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Hsien-yi
- kcb 4y agoChina did many things during the Korean War but win is definetly not one of them.