Posted on 03/18/2021 11:16:36 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
US defense officials are increasingly warning of the potential for conflict with China over Taiwan.
There is almost no way in which the US could intervene in that conflict without devastating losses.
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, ret, Defense Priorities Thu, March 18, 2021, 7:16 AM·5 min read Shiyu Kinmen County Taiwan China Shiyu, or Lion Islet, one of Taiwan's offshore islands, with the Chinese city of Xiamen in the background. Carl Court/Getty Images US defense officials are increasingly warning of the potential for conflict with China over Taiwan.
There is almost no way in which the US could intervene in that conflict without devastating losses.
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Many of America's leading military and political figures have issued increasingly alarmist warnings in recent days about the potential for conflict with China, especially related to issues surrounding Taiwan.
But before the US gets into a crisis that brings it to the threshold of war - or finds itself stumbling into one - policymakers and military leaders need to address some hard realities.
There is almost no scenario in which the United States can successfully intervene in a war between China and Taiwan that will not leave our country in far worse shape than it is right now; in a worst-case scenario, American territory could be struck by nuclear missiles.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Adm. Phil Davidson, commander of US forces in the Indo-Pacific, warned that Chinese military developments looked to him like a nation planning for a war.
Davidson added that he believed China would attempt to forcibly reunify Taiwan "in the next six years." To guard against this possibility, Davidson asked Congress to provide a whopping $27 billion in additional funding over the current defense budget.
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Meh. Preparing us for the Chinese takeover of Taiwan.
Time for Taiwan to go nuclear.
China will take Taiwan when their ready, the only question now is when. For America, that will be the moment our dominance ends in the Pacific and China is the new king of the hill. Once that happens, watch what happens to the US dollar...
If that happens, warm up the nukes.
Stolen elections have consequences.
Hey Social Media, happy about NOT showing Hunter Biden info and putting voting booths in blue areas. Or Stacy Gap Abrams cheating by mail....or Poulos and the Dominion guys switching votes by the millions?
Fraudulent elections have consequences, a doddering toolbag sniffing asshat like Dildo Biden will get us in hot wars both internally and externally.
As I said before everything Obama/Biden and now Biden/Harris do is to WEAKEN US both militarily, socially, medically, economically and phytologically.
We are the rock in the shoe of the Global Cabal. They want us gone.
With the U.S’s left-wing “perfumed princes”, the new “soy boys” and transgenders, what could possibly go wrong??? /S
China was going take back Taiwan any day now when I was in grade school. 🙄
Why does China even care about Taiwan?
I don’t want to go to war with China. Send Taiwan some nukes/missles and let them have it with China.
I am sure there are Chinese agents embedded in Taiwan. I wonder if Taiwan has agents in China.
Fake scare tactic. That is the one thing that would NEVER happen.
First, Biden doesn't give a damn about Taiwan.
Second, Biden, nor his team, have any concept as to how to deter China, and if they were given instruction, they lack the will to execute.
So - we will stand by our allies, our treaties, our word as a nation - or we’ll fold and crawl back under our beds and hide.
I do hate cowards and defeatists.
Did we have leaders like Biden during your grade school days?
Dream on. Why weren't nukes used in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq? I'll wait for an answer...
maybe you need to go back to learn the difference between fantasy and reality.
I have the feeling we are already gone; most people just don't know it, yet.
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