I wonder if the people of Taiwan will have the grit to fight Red China, or if they’ll kowtow to the ‘inevitable’.
Once China feels threatened by the US using Taiwan as a launching pad for weapons aimed at them, the same fate as the US backed former state of Ukraine will befall Taiwan.
It is past obvious the US proxy war on Ukraine has failed.
The issue in Taiwan isn’t weaponry - its the size of their own army and their own willingness to “fight.”
have seen reports that many units in even their tiny budgeted 200K armed forces are inactive, because they are understaffed.
Taiwan ? That’s not exactly tank country. And despite DC, China isn’t invading. They’ll take it like they did Hong Kong. Work to install a leftist leader, seduce and bribe, sign a deal, and slowly blend.
It’ll be more like a business acquisition merger…not D-Day.
May as well give them to Taiwan. Better than giving them all to Ukraine, we’re giving away all of our weapons. At least we have a stake in what happens in Taiwan.
Good idea! The Ukes can sell them on the back market to the russians and the Taliban.
Taiwan is healthy, wealthy and free, and thriving, they can buy what they wish to have.
What they need to be doing is trying to build a martial spirit in their nation, it is the indifference to the military training of their soldiers and young men that is most troubling.
Excuse me you have some other source writing about what the WSJ quoted someone else as saying.
That’s not the WSJ’s policy.
Ukraine obviously needs the tanks for an ongoing land war more than Taiwan.
We need to arm both and we need to increase arms production.
I wouldn’t rely on anyone who says containment of Russia has failed when Ukraine took territory back after a year of resisting Russia;
Nor would I rely on anyone who says the “solution” would be to stop arming Ukraine.
Russia is going to face straight up defeat this Spring. Nice try, Ivan.
“The United States needs to send Abrams tanks to Taiwan”
Teller Report.
Doesn’t it seem like many people, publications, institutions, and politicians want a world war?
Maybe it’s just me...
5.56mm
Send Stacy Abrams.
As I was scrolling down the articles, I saw the one on sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine and I immediately thought ‘no, hold on to them because Taiwan may need them.’ About 5-10 articles later, I see this one.
Give the tanks to Ukraine. China won’t do anything to Taiwan without our permission, or we can destroy them by blockades and boycotts.
Taiwan is not much of a tank-friendly environment.
Taiwan is politically divided down the middle as to how they want to deal with China, with half the country seeming to prefer an accommodation with China. When the Ukraine war started up there were many protests with Taiwanese protesters saying under no circumstances did they want to become the next Ukraine, after seeing what is transpiring there.
They have no intention of fighting to the last Taiwanese to further US global hegemony, they aren’t quite as stupid as the Ukrainians. So good luck expecting them to fight China to any great extent risking the loss of life and property, this seems more like a neocon fantasy. My guess is Taiwan would roll over quick and the best the US could do at that point is use any Chinese invasion as an excuse to enforce sanctions against China. But seeing as to how non-Western countries have ignored the current sanctions against Russia, I wouldn’t expect them to honor sanction against China either.
It remains fascinating to me that you and your isolationist brethren at FR are content to observe the alignment of Russia and China against the US.
You do not think ‘our resources’ should be used to stop them.
You think ‘they’ will stop at some unknown border with their aggression.
Your think we are absolutely safe and any defense of those ‘other countries’ is an insult to your patriotism.
I do not think your opinion is reasonable . Russia and China do want to destroy us. Taking Taiwan and Ukraine are important steps toward that goal.
Tanks ain’t exactly the most useful thing for defending an island.
why??? their doctrine shouldn’t let armor across the channel
better off tipping the island over with a pile of the latest/greatest AT munitions...
Amen!