Not sure if you're serious or not, but no, he was referring to Haitian immigrants, who arrived to the United States on a legal temporary humanitarian status.
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NEWS Is the pivot to China a bunch of bullshit?
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Haha, no, I was being a bit facetious. Was mainly referring to the viral hit song about the pets.
How do you know it’s a she? How do you know it’s a human and not a bot posting? Your line of argumentation is not how the Navy does geopolitical analysis.
I’m not in a political party, but there are basically three reasons to defend Taiwan:
1. They are a free people deserving to be autonomous and choose their own form of govt (moral argument)
2. Allowing Taiwan to be invaded would have negative follow-on effects on freedom and democracy across Asia, and embolden China (domino effect)
3. Taiwan makes 90% of the world’s semiconductors, which are necessary for technology and therefore also for war (pragmatic)
I’d imagine the “America first” crowd would try to take away reason #3 by rebuilding the American semiconductor manufacturing base, and moving those supply chains and jobs back to CONUS so the US is better able to withstand global supply chain shocks, and be more self sufficient in our production. Seems reasonable to me.
That doesn’t mean the US would ignore reasons to defend Taiwan #1 or #2, but it makes the decision a lot clearer-headed than, for example, some hotheaded TV analyst calling for a “mad scramble to prevent China from controlling all the world’s computer chips.”
It’s worthwhile to note that Taiwan, as a democracy, is susceptible to influence in elections. China could very easily take over Taiwan nonmilitarily simply by the Taiwanese people or their elected leaders, over time, gradually voting for more integration with China. That fact makes it all the more reasonable to try to obviate rationale #3 beforehand by making America more self sufficient in its computer chip manufacturing.
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Do you think I could be a bot?🤖 For one, because she has been posting since before artificial intelligence was advanced enough to create bots that could post in the way she does (and I still don't think they are advanced enough yet). I've also conversed with her, and if she is a bot, she's the most advanced bot I've ever seen (and most emotional). Also she doesn't hide who she is, she has videos of herself on her blog. And I am not engaging in geopolitical analysis for the Navy. If I was, I absolutely would not cite one person's blog as evidence for how Ukrainians think, because even if it seems reasonable, it's not enough evidence. I'd need to scour multiple Ukrainian blogs and also talk to Ukrainian people and other things.
Did reason 1 effectively work on the MAGA crowd who wants to abandon Ukraine?
YGTBFSM. That 'discrimination' was Ukraine limiting pension payments to folks in occupied Ukraine, when the Ukrainians had no way to know whether or not those pension payments were not being stolen or laundered by the Russian occupiers.
Those details aside, THAT WAS NOT A REASON PUTIN INVADED UKRAINE. You are swallowing Russian propaganda Hook, Line and Sinker. That is like believing Hitler's excuse of occupying Czechoslovakia was to protect the Germans there or invading Poland was because the Poles attacked a radio antenna on the border. Putin wants to reoccupy Ukraine and reincorporate it into what he believes is 'Greater Russia'. Period.
Seriously, I can't believe I have to spell that out.
That doesn't mean he is a corrupt autocrat.
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He bowls overhand.
When I said "motivator," I meant "that was a big reason why Putin thought he could be successful."
As in, a motivator for Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 was that he thought that he could topple the Soviet Army before it reconstituted after Stalin's purge. Like Putin, he was wrong. And like Putin, he also had other political motivations for conducting the invasion, but an assessment of whether you have sufficient military forces to win is a big part of the calculus to start the operation.
And please point out where I called Zelenskyy an autocrat?
Take a chill pill, dude. I'm on team "support Ukraine's fight for sovereignty."
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Not sure I'm following how discriminatory pension payments were a motivator, but okay.
No, but there is certainly a implication that he is somehow dirty in your posts.
I get exasperated when seeing blatantly obvious Russian propaganda repeated with any credibility.
The reasons I listed why the US might defend Taiwan are just general, not specific to political party/faction.
3. Is going to take a long time.
I also believe that China is playing the super long game- they'd much rather to eventually have Taiwan democractically elect to join the PRC.
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And if China can integrate Taiwan democratically, that would totally undermine any US rationale to intervene based on moral grounds. All the more reason to build new chip plants here on US soil.
But you could make the same arguments (at least 1 and 3 if not number 2 in Europe) for Ukraine, and it hasn't swayed the MAGA faction towards supporting them is my point.
I think the “America first” crowd (not necessarily the same as MAGA) would not be convinced to defend Taiwan or Ukraine based on moral grounds or domino effect reasons.