US has no reason to shed blood to defend Taiwan. This is half of the Republicans think US should do. That is what Senator Josh Hawley thinks US should do. China-Taiwan will be just another Russia and Ukraine. Even US agrees that there is only one China. But US passed a law to "defend" Taiwan. But how? Sell more outdated weapons? Like what the West is doing to bring "defensive" weapons into Ukraine?
Ah. Ok, you're one of those Kremlin sympathisers, many lurking around. There was no contractual obligation for NATO not to expand. The supposed promise was also given before Russia started threatening said countries with invasion, I'm in one of said countries. When Putin came to power, there were numerous threats made, border incursions became regular. NATO membership was the only option. So your solution was, let all these countries sit mostly defenceless and isolation. Just waiting for Russia to take them one by one. You'd do well as a Russian propaganda minister.
That is just BS. How can all those LNG tankers pass through Suez Canal? Do you even know how LNG works?
One company. Taiwan Semiconductor. China gets a hold of that and the USA is screwed. Don't they produce something like 50% of the chips USA needs for hi-tech manufacture?
Crimean invasion was nothing like this, not even close. To compare the two is ridiculous. You must live in a bunker in near-total isolation to think that.
@d08 You are such an idiot. You better read some history book. Here is a good one from Johns Hopkins University. That is the history I just described.
The US debt is a big problem. But we also have credibility. Russia can't expand their money supply by 40% print a few trillion out of thin air and have their currency at around the same level as it was at before the pandemic despite high inflation rates / strongly negative real rates. There's no shortage of buyers for US debt. Russia can't do that. Russia GDP about the size of Florida. Nowhere near the productivity.