Posted on 06/12/2023 5:45:24 AM PDT by janetjanet998
The U.S. government is preparing evacuation plans for American citizens living in Taiwan, three sources told The Messenger.
The planning has been underway for at least six months and “it’s heated up over the past two months or so,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the planning.
Yep.
Biden is giving Taiwan to China...................
If Chain were going to act they would do it when their guy is in the White House.
First there are media reports of the pentagon “freaking out” over China
And now this
I wonder what happened the past 2 months to make it more urgent?
IMO China might think it’s best try to attack Taiwan now while dementia Joe is still in charge
Sorry but there are zero signs of China doing anything against Taiwan. That would involve major movement of logistics that satellites would see yet the USA nor Japan nor Taiwan has mentioned anything of the type.
It is a giveaway, not an invasion.
That would involve major movement of logistics that satellites would see yet the USA nor Japan nor Taiwan has mentioned anything of the type
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Do you think they would announce that publicly?
It would cause a panic
Maybe this is the first clue? Something changed
“it’s heated up over the past two months or so,”
“it’s heated up over the past two months or so,”
How so?
But it's not his to give in that our entire economy is inextricably linked to Taiwan if only because Taiwan produces 90% of the world sophisticated computer chips.
If China takes Taiwan, it will, for a while at least, control technological advancement around the world.
China will control the computers chips needed for almost all new tech products--including military products.
Who cares! Maybe finally that would put a boot in America’s rump to finally stop depending on Taiwan for computer chips. Additionally, it’s high time we get out of other’s affairs and for once place priorities here!
“IMO China might think it’s best try to attack Taiwan now while dementia Joe is still in charge”.
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A couple of things;
There are several thousand American expats in Taiwan. And same with other western expats. And, there are even more American expats residing in China, same with other western expats. China needs this resource to remain in place.
Second; China will not launch a traditional invasion of Taiwan as it won’t risk destroying the Taiwan semiconductor industry. Which is the gold egg that they covet.
“preparing evacuation plans”
Always good to have a plan
“it’s heated up over the past two months or so,”
How so?
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The article said the plans for evacuation have heated up in the past two months
It Doesn’t say why
With respect, The Messenger's address shows them in a rental facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. "Three sources" is numerically more than one or two, but not as good as "sources," suggesting any number one can imagine. So later one reads just "sources."
From the article: "The details of the U.S. plans are still being worked out, sources told The Messenger, including where U.S. citizens might be evacuated if it were deemed necessary."
I am neither asserting the report is correct or incorrect, so much as saying much of the media -- like MSNBC or single office The Messenger -- are publishing "experts say" and :sources say" and the 3rd person game of "it is said."
One source cited by name -- "...Mark Cancian, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who has run Taiwan war games and was involved in the 1975 evacuation of Americans from Saigon."
One may read "about" this CSIS, a massive think tank in Washington DC: https://www.csis.org/about
The chairman of CSIS is Thomas Pritzker, cousin of Illinois' J.B. Pritzker, and related to Penny Pritzker who was in the Obama administration. So the messaging coming from The Messenger is coming from a think tank in Washington DC and dominated by Democrats saying "biparisan." Billionaire Democrats, it turns out.
Messaging. Nudging. Moving the narrative. Or as Lefty Chomsky still correctly observed, "Manufacturing Consent."
The message? War with China is coming. But then, the Biden administration's military brass has already announced the year -- 2025. So planning is underway.
From the article: “The tension is that the U.S. government wouldn’t want to pull personnel out too soon because that would signal lack of confidence,' he said. 'But they wouldn’t want to wait too late because then they wouldn’t be able to get everyone out'.”
Notice this is about public perception first. Politics.
Yup. They foresee (and worry about) as fine a game as Biden's Afghanistan retreat.... And, besides, there is good money in them "thar think tanks."
Exactly. China would need to amass. Normandy invasion sized armada to “take” Taiwan. No country, other than the US mastered Amphibious invasions. And our last major landing was in Inchon.
Seaborne invasions are not easy. China doesn’t have the means or experience to pull this off.
But Taiwan, when it goes to China, will do so economically and willingly.
This kind of planning is necessary for where there are Americans. The more important question is the government presently implementing any plan to make sure Americans never need to be evacuated?
U.S. government is preparing evacuation plans?
They’ve had plans developed for years….who by the way? State Dept? God save us. Afghanistan Part II……
Dear Marine (retired, I assume), that is some apt assertion, seconded loudly. Invest in America. Manufacture in America. Perot's "giant sucking sound" needs to be answered by turning things around.
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