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The Americans already have at least one base there.

I think the Europeans are hoping that incompetence and corruptipn in the leadership, combined with the sheer cost or a cold weather base, will lead to systematic failures in building and operating new bases.

Yes. It is politics.

Legal actions are the anti-solution. Making people feel that they don’t need the afd because other parties are meeting their needs is the real solution.

There is/was a Taiwan ethnicity, you should read your history. Most Taiwanese are Han in origin, and speak Han mandarin.

That said, a majority do not want to be governed by the PRC, and have not been governed by the PRC since the second world war.

You can debate the word whitewash, but his point is valid - op said no WP, but there is evidence of WP.

Op also said that the comparison of condemnation can still be valid without the WP point.

I believe it is a shared fund between middle wastern countries and the U.S.

I doubt it was an honest goal. It was most likely a post-truth political device for aligbment.

Reports say apache

Belt and road?

I thimk it’s very nice of RU to give NATO members all of these small warnings about drone insecurity, so that the can strengthen their cooperation with Ukraine.

Very much agree. I think that volume in asymmetry will beat any defense, even the lazers.

I am no expert though.

Iron dome is designed for cheaper rockets like Qassams from Hezbollah. They are effective agaimst cheap rockets and loitering/flying drones. Iron Domebwas always designed to be more expensive than what it takes out so that citizens would stay aligned.

It seems that Iron Dome,like the Patriot, are desgned for the last war, not the current war. Asymmetric deployment of volumes of small&cheap units will overload these systems, or at least cost your opponent too much.

Even aganst peer weapons thay are onlyildly successful. In Ukraine the patriots have intercepted Kinzals,bit will never be able, nor cost effective against Oreshniks (as the split too early)

Oh no

Comment sounds trivial, but is actually sophisticat.

Oh no

Let’s add some depth here though. Taiwan/ROC (the country with the demcratic government) produces a majority f the high complexity computer chips, but China/PRC (the Unitary Communist country) produces the majority of low complexity chips, and does not produce any sgnficant quantity oh high complexity chips.

That said, as the Americans trued to squeeze the PRC on the chips topc, they have moved to being much more self-sustained on chips, and im the near future will not be iverly impacted if ROC chip production goes haywire. The PRC have made it their strategc goal to no longer be bullied on Petroleum, nor Technology, and are dumping money into operations to support that strategy.

When the PRC sees the right circumstances they will assume control of the ROC islands, regardless of TSMC self-destructs.

And perhaps Palantir?

“Mission accomplished” but they couldn’t get him onto the aircraft carrier

Not a problem as Trump already said that he removed all of the mines and sunk all of the mine layers.