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China has built hundreds of Naval ships and is beginning to overtly threaten Taiwan with flyovers. We all see where this is going. We know Xi wants Taiwan. Sel
by dragontamer 4y ago
China has built hundreds of Naval ships and is beginning to overtly threaten Taiwan with flyovers.
We all see where this is going. We know Xi wants Taiwan. Selling weapons to Taiwan so that they can better defend themselves is the moral thing to do.
Its the same thing as how the Russians blame USA for "extending" the war in Ukraine. Erm, yeah. That's the point. When we see evil and decide to do something to stop it, it makes it harder for evildoers to do what they want to do. And I think its a good thing to make Taiwan harder to get taken over.
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All China has to do, to avoid the war... is to not start it. Its not like Taiwan is in any position to attack China right now or anytime in the foreseeable future.
- JohnFen 4y agoTrue, China's plans for Taiwan are hardly a secret. I was speaking about the larger situation, though, not just Taiwan.
- dragontamer 4y agoShooting down a spy balloon won't start a war. And similarly, sending a spy balloon over won't start a war either. Both sides (USA and China) are smarter than that. The only thing that really has a chance to start a war is this Taiwan situation. I don't see any room for diplomacy anymore.
- JohnFen 4y agoI never mentioned balloons. In any case, all of this is far above my pay grade.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago> ... we see evil and decide to do something to stop it ... Hilarious. Do you actually believe US foreign policy has anything to do with "good and evil," and if so, could you explain how this drove the decision to, oh I dunno, bomb Guatemala city? Or annex Hawaii? Or arm Saudi Arabia to the teeth? Or pick virtually any foreign intervention since WWII, really.
- dragontamer 4y agoBe that what it may, I'd say that China trying to conquer Taiwan would be an Evil act. You can try to use whataboutism to detract from this point. But the question at hand is: what are we going to do about the Taiwan situation.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago[flagged]
- dragontamer 4y ago[flagged]
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago> the Russian propaganda technique "whataboutism" We're so fucked.
- dang 4y agoCan you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately and we have to ban such accounts because we're trying to be a different kind of site than that, and would prefer not to burn to a crisp. Scorched earth isn't ineresting. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20scorched%20earth&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- dang 4y ago> I conclude you're trying to do the Russian propaganda technique "whataboutism" Please don't take HN threads further into political/national flamewar, and please follow the HN rule against calling names in arguments a little more broadly. The epithet "whataboutism" qualifies as the latter—it's a label that's used to silence argument rather than respond to it. If someone brings up an example that's not relevant, a counterargument should explain what the difference is that makes it irrelevant—not simply denounce it based on what side it's on. Past explanations here if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whataboutism%20by:dang&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whataboutism%20by:dang&dateRan...