(05-30-2024, 06:47 AM)727Sky Wrote:(05-30-2024, 04:39 AM)Schmoe Wrote: Is this really anything new though? I thought our special operations teams have long held joint exercises with their counterparts in Taiwan- Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, etc.
True however there is a big difference between an exercise and troops being permanently based there.
That would be one duty station (6 miles off the Chinese coast) I would not want any part of... The world is going to keep screwing around and sooner or later there is going to be a world of hurt..One way to thin the herd I suppose ?
IMO China is wrong with their 9 dash line as is Russia with their invasion of Ukraine.
“The only solution for bad and violent people are good people that are more skilled in violence.” —— Japanese samurai code Bushido.
Ha, yeah I'd want to pass on that assignment too. I agree with China being wrong, same with Russia. Why we can't as a species collectively live and let live, I don't understand.
Well, people like you and me want to live and let live, it's the psychotic, egomaniac leaders who keep trying to play warlord. Then again, the world has gotten so corrupt that it probably couldn't function without that corruption. Maybe the Bible actually is accurate, and a good old fashioned cleansing is required once the corruption reaches critical mass.
I guess war, unfortunately, made sense in the hunter gatherer days. If you're all out of resources to sustain your people, you had to go elsewhere, and other people might be there who don't want you taking their resources.
Then war became about conquering and control, and even worse, religion. Killing in the name of whatever god you prayed to, never fails to make me laugh, as sick as it is.
Putin apparently wants to bring back the glory of the Soviet Union, so what better way to accomplish that, than to invade sovereign nations and create loads of zealots after the ensuing war?
What does China gain by absorbing Taiwan? A whole lot of zealots who will do whatever they can to harm China. Or, they could go on being China, and let Taiwan be Taiwan, and nobody dies.