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It's absolutely foolish for the US not to offer open immigration to anyone in Taiwan without a felony conviction, or even without one in the past 10 years. Bes
by api 4y ago
It's absolutely foolish for the US not to offer open immigration to anyone in Taiwan without a felony conviction, or even without one in the past 10 years.
Best way to deal with this without risking US troops or risking WWIII is to just drain the island of all its talent and ambition.
Same goes for Russia. We should be offering open immigration to anyone fleeing Russia who passes a security check. Drain Putin's brains.
Brain drain from Nazi Germany and the USSR were arguably factors that propelled the US to superpower status in the 20th century.
- jorvi 4y ago> .. is to just drain the island of all its talent and ambition. What an extremely callous and deeply cold-hearted thing to say about an ally. Imagine someone said that about the US?
- api 4y agoI should have qualified that with: if China is actually going to invade and we can’t stop them. I don’t think you are going to convince the US leadership to go to war directly against a nuclear power for Taiwan. They won’t for Ukraine either. If Taiwan can resist like Ukraine they will supply Taiwan, but China is considerably stronger and more advanced than Russia. I don’t think that level of resistance is likely. If I were Taiwanese I’d rather have the option of having a good place to go as an alternative to forceful subjugation by a totalitarian power.
- yongjik 4y agoSo you want America to publicly declare that it will not lift a finger to defend its ally, and instead skim the top of the cream of Taiwanese society and leave their friends and relatives to die in war? If the Taiwanese wanted to defend their country they should have learned to do it themselves, ha ha. Imagine what kind of message this sends to people of Japan, South Korea, or Poland.
- ashwagary 4y ago>So you want America to publicly declare that it will not lift a finger to defend its ally >Imagine what kind of message this sends to people of Japan, South Korea, or Poland. An honest one.
- scarmig 4y agoThe message everyone hears from that is that if your country is threatened by an aggressive power, we'll give it up but let you flee it and come to us. That's... not reassuring for allies.