Calling it now, when striking military targets fails to get surrender, we will switch to war crimes, Israel and then the US will start hitting water, food, and transportation infrastructure.
The only way to get victory from this war is genocide.
Remember that every time you imagine the American voter.
China has geographical problems that hamstring it against American Empire.
Until/unless they build a blue water navy that can blockade America or an alliance system that can shut us out of the indo-pacific, they are fucked in a straight up conflict.
It was a power grab. The US intervened softly to stop the growth of the third Reich into a hegemon, funding Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.
When Japan hit Pearl harbor Roosevelt was forced to war and honestly he and his team were probably itching to get in there are flex American power to shape events directly. Truman finished things out trying to box in the soviets once it was clear the allies were gonna win.
Russia can’t even show up for Russia. I doubt Iranians thought Russia would launch nukes for them.
Ukraine had physical possession of nukes but no ability to use them. The Russians never let them have the launch codes.
Ukrainian officials knew they weren’t getting anything worthwhile in the Budapest memorandum because they weren’t giving anything up besides a headache.
South Africa gave up their nukes and decommissioned their nuclear program. Ukraine just formalized what was already true, the nukes were not usable for them.
He probably will be a. Martyr for all the people that were fighting the protestors to keep him in power.
I’d say Talerico is the progressive in this race. Crocket supports Israel and takes Aipac money.
Yeah there is a big sibling little sibling dynamic and isreal is not the big sibling.
You would do anything for your little sibling and likewise the US would do anything for Isreal. It’s not right but it true, but that doesn’t mean they control us.
It’s up to us to stop it.
Good job finding secure employment.
The prices won’t come down when the bubble bursts, you will just lose your job.
Do you mean fourth wing? I’m a few chapters in and I thought it was the poster child for Romantasy.
So far the budding romance is absolutely center frame and the world building either directly holds up the romance or it’s kinda background.
His religious argument for progressive values is what makes him a strong candidate for Texas.
Talerico is serving in the state house, Crocket in the national congressional delegation.
Talerico. Brings his sincerity, faith, and working class background in in one of the poorest school districts in the country. He has integrity and and a way of invoking Christianity that I think resonates in Texas. He appeals to a broad swath of voters without compromising his progressive ideals.
I would vote for Crocket if she wasn’t up against Talerico. But as is, I think he has a better shot at the general and I trust him more.
Holy shit, that’s not just putting your face in the leopards mouth that’s crawling into it’s stomach as hard as you can.
That’s true, Taiwan is armed to the teeth and our regional partners would not be partners if we actually went psychotic and tried to invade. Our supply lines are way longer than China and all the logistics in the world won’t help if we don’t have bases to operate from.
I meant we could occupy them like we occupied Iraq. We would win the military confrontation. The occupation would break us.
We could do it once, maybe twice or three times if the countries are small and weak, but it would break us. The rest of the world would adjust. We would all be poorer but the US would be fucked. Trump doesn’t understand that we built a military too expensive to actually use. It made sense if we wanted to avoid conflict, and casualties, while still being top dog and getting our way, but actually going in and occupying territory is medieval thinking.
He backed off Greenland. Taiwan would be an order of magnitude worse. The US could occupy any country on earth (maybe not China, without some Roman level war crimes) But it would be the end of us.
Everything up to the last step is doable by 2029.
The last step might come In the 2040’s.