“A report that the U.S. military has been stepping up its activities in Taiwan for at least a year comes amid growing fears of a Chinese invasion.”
Should have included that under the headline
Bkmk
If US troops are needed on the ground in Taiwan, it is already lost. Control the sea and control the air, then Taiwan is safe. Lose those and Taiwan is lost.
Great, sitting ducks. Getting ready for the next big retreat.
Oh goody, more undeclared American killing and maiming wars so the fat cats can line their pockets. Hide your kids from the Pentagram folks.
I bet fat Liz Cheney is all tickled about it.
We retreated in Vietnam and Afghanistan. We can’t manage to quell Iraq and Syria. The Taliban routed us.
How do the bright boys think they can face an enemy who can lose two times the population of the USA in war without blinking?
Could this Taiwan situation have been the impetus for the Afghan Skedaddle?
China will call Milley before they invade so he can remove the US forces.
If Joe is allowing it to continue, the Chinese must be wondering why they funneled all that money to Hunter to pass on to the Big Guy. Joe's not an honest politician. An honest politician, when he's bought, stays bought.
If I were Taiwan I would be worried that ‘help from U.S.’ was actually Chinese agents undercover or in disguise.
The Chinese soldiers are busy slurping down General Tso’s Chicken.
They can’t get enough of his chicken.
BTT
Two underlying questions.
Who leaked it and why?
Why did the WSJ report on it?
Ha! By 2025? That gives Taiwan and Australia the time it needs to finish building and deploying their new submarines. Currently the Chinese have insufficient amphibious ships for an invasion. Even if they build more, sinking a couple will seriously effect their capabilities.
There are two kinds of weapons that Taiwan needs to add to its arsenal ASAP. The first are small, cheap naval mines, not against warships, but against a giant flotilla of small boats.
“Coffee can” floating mines with a small electronic controller. Drop a hundred thousand of these in the current of the Taiwan strait, and they drift into the flotilla, blowing basketball sized holes just below the waterline.
They aren’t designed against warships with thicker hulls, but smaller, and non-warship ships with thin hulls, likely transporting troops would be compromised with one and sunk with two.
The other weapon recreates, sort of, the Buzz bomb of WWII.
Designed to be as cheap as an economy car, with a beer can body and old style fly by wire, with a cheap computer brain, a gas tank, a prop engine, and a large iron bomb. Ramp launched. Suicide mission.
Hundreds of these could be made for the price of a single high performance jet. The jet could shoot down say a dozen, this still leaves 80+ bombs heading to their targets.
Even if their brain is fried at some point, they will continue on to target.
The CCP's Taiwan reconciliation strategy will be much larger than Taiwan.
China will also blockade the Phillipines as the main bargaining chip. For example, China owns 2GO, the main Phillipine ferry service. They will shut down Phillipine intra-island travel and freight overnight.
While the Taiwanese execute their orderly island home defense plan, the Phillipines' social order will dissolve overnight, with a +/-250,000 US ex-pats at risk, as opposed to only +/-5,000 permanent US residents in Taiwan.
This Chinese pre-scripted event (koof koof, ahem, as well-scripted as COVID) will give our puppet-state the opportunity to 'stand down' when China 'gives back' the Phillipines, in exchange for China keeping Taiwan.
The Wallstreet Journal reporting this seems designed to help the Chinese with their propaganda efforts. China may go to war due to their imploding economy and the media conveniently gives them an excuse.
Maybe it’s training.
Don’t tell Joe.