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SmokeyTheBear

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  1. Yeah it's been great. I was concerned with wild fires coming this late in the summer but the afternoon rains have been perfect. We're dreading leaving Monday.
  2. I wonder what Senator had intimate conversations gathered on his phone. Cruz? MTG? Boebert?
  3. We're going to walk away from them?
  4. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4614648 China announced that it will hold military exercises that include live-fire drills in six zones surrounding Taiwan following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrival in Taiwan.
  5. They're about to fist fight while leaving
  6. Lol Jones squirming like crazy at not getting to speak
  7. What kind of actions are viable by the judge? These sanctions.
  8. I don't know but it's fascinating
  9. Is the prosecution trying to hold back laughs while he's hawking vitamins?
  10. "tore his larynx"
  11. Lol "slow down a little bit" after a Matrix comment
  12. I hope they ask his thoughts on lizard people
  13. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/gallery/pelosi-china-history/index.html Pelosi likes to poke China in the eye when possible. I'm all for it.
  14. Not wrong but also a war is a great unifying subject (sadly). I think across the political spectrum, China is viewed in a negative light. Maybe more so than Russia. But we shouldn't be dictating our long term global strategic goals/security by placating the worst of our society. We have our own domestic terrorists who want to destroy our government regardless of how we manage our external enemies. But China wants to take the top Superpower spot and will work towards that regardless of what anyone else wants. It is in our best interest to stymie that and its most effective to do that when they are weak, not regrouped and able to focus solely on our responses.
  15. Great thing about the Ukraine war is that we only have a pinky toe in that one and it is a model for the defense of Taiwan. I do not want a war with China, but if they are going to do their thing (which is their purgative), we need to put pressure and leverage all the weaknesses. If they are dealing with bank runs, and COVID issues, and general unrest from a populace support standpoint, a Ukraine type war could put Xi in a very bad position similar to Putin currently.
  16. The alternative is China does what they want, take over Taiwan, controls the chip market and we're sitting around twiddling our thumbs wishing we did something more like Ukraine. *and, any bad actors will be emboldened further because they know America won't do anything of substance to stop them.
  17. If it's going to go down at some point, then again, why not take every advantage possible to weaken them and strengthen our alliances? I'm of the mind that Russia and China have had their strategies and road map for expansion already set, regardless of what the rest of the world wants. Russia played their hand and now we need to disrupt China's play before they are strong enough to fully realize their strategy.
  18. To put it another way, this is just like us cruising our subs and carriers thru their artificial islands so that they don't feel they can shut down/control international shipping channels.
  19. If we finally view each other as the hostiles we are, why not weaken them further when we can? They have no problem doing what they want to try to weaken us. All we are doing with this move is tell the world we support Taiwan. This isn't sanctions or a surgical strike or something real. This is trying to stop another Ukraine from happening on China's timeline.
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