Posted on 04/01/2025 1:03:22 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels on Tuesday conducted law-enforcement patrols in waters around Taiwan island in accordance with the one-China principle, amid the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command's joint exercises around the island.
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Why are you posting communist Chinese propaganda.
We created a monster.
Soviets broke up. 4 years later it’s Loral.
A few years later its MFN status.
bkmk
You did.
That’s just as logical as your question.
Among many possible explanations are the following:
1. Donald Trump is morally and emotionally moved by the carnage in Ukraine and is motivated to end it even at the cost of our relationship with NATO and at the cost of the freedom of the Ukrainian people themselves.
2. Donald Trump cynically sees an opportunity to acquire what might prove to be extremely valuable rare earth, minerals, oil and gas reserves in Ukraine and is simply forcing Ukraine as part of an imposed peace deal to surrender a large portion of those resources. He views Ukraine to be expendable.
3. Donald Trump believes that China presents an existential threat to the security of the United States and that threat is even more perilous if China is connected along the landmass of Asia to Russia. Therefore, the war in Ukraine must be ended, at whatever terms necessary to appease Russia, even at the cost of Ukraine and our relationship with Europe and NATO, in the hope that Russia can be seduced away from its relationship with China.
As noted, there may be other motivations, for example Donald Trump might feel that the war is hopeless, that the war cannot be won, that the only way to end the war is to start negotiations as he did without consulting Ukraine and by granting Vladimir Putin his demands in advance, contrary to the traditional course of negotiations and contrary to the theme of his own instruction manual concerning negotiations, "The Art of the deal." But why demolished NATO, antagonize Europe at a time when he's trying to negotiate trade deals with tariffs, and sacrifice Ukraine?
Now we see that China is tightening the noose around Taiwan. We don't know whether these actions are just one more act in a series of actions deployed not just against Taiwan and many of Taiwan's neighbors in the Western Pacific or whether this is an opening move of an actual attempt to conquer Taiwan either by direct invasion or by blockade.
Assuming the worst of China's intentions, how will Donald Trump react? Will he intervene militarily? Will he impose sanctions? Will he reach an accommodation with China over Taiwan as he seeks to do with Russia over Ukraine?
Incidentally, these are questions no doubt being earnestly debated in the chancellery's of every Pacific rim nation who might feel that they are also threatened by China and who reasonably might fear that they are next.
What President Trump will do if China goes kinetic might be informed by what he has done about Ukraine.
In the chancellery within The Forbidden City they are, no doubt, earnestly debating whether Trump's record in Ukraine is muscular enough to deter them from attacking Taiwan. Or should they accelerate their timetable for invasion before Trump's policies co-opting Russia can have effect?
NATO has a record over three quarters of a century keeping the peace. And, not incidentally, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons among members beyond Britain and France.
Putin has a record of mischief, murder, and invasions but no invasion against NATO.
Putin also has a stated desire to break up NATO and divide Western Europe. He was failing miserably in Ukraine and even worse in Sweden and Finland but since January 20, 2025, he seems to be getting his way in Europe.
We shall see which European country, believing itself vulnerable without a coherent NATO with its nuclear deterrent that was credible because it was American, first undertakes to arm itself with the bomb.
Yes its CCP propaganda .
lots of paid Russian Troll
propaganda too .
The sites standards are gone .
Your point on NATO may be valid, but as to putins rise, nope Russians don’t know how to live without a strongman, just like Muslim world can’t handle democracy even if it is handed to them.
Filled with Ivans and Ooh Maos.
After you broke it up what would you do, watch a vacuum that nature abhors being filled with an aggressive Russia? By aggressive Islam? Or torn apart by former NATO nations that have been at war with each other since the Visigoths?
As for the cause of the Ukraine war, it is clear that every administration from Bush on, but especially the Democrats, bear responsibility. But we must deal with what is and it is no justification for wrong action or no action because we can blame it on someone's past mistakes.
How foolish. Ending NATO would have forced the EU to get their “crap together” and we wouldn’t have spent all that $$$ defending those losers. The expansion NATO post USSR was stupid, idiotic. If you can’t see then we have nothing to discuss. You NATO expansionist have blood on your hands too. A lot of blame to go around.
This is a forum for discussion, that is its purpose, we don't gather in a forum designed to exchange views to have opinion dismissed out of hand.
How foolish. Ending NATO would have forced the EU to get their “crap together”
Most people admit they cannot see into the future, and others admit they cannot see into the might-have-beens of the past, tell me, do you have a source for this dictum or can you see into the past that wasn't?
You NATO expansionist have blood on your hands too.
Why do you conflate NATO expansion with terminating NATO in 1995? These are 2 different propositions. I wonder if you can produce a record in which you advise against expanding NATO? In retrospect it is easy to say. In retrospect, I too think it was a mistake.
But we gotta deal with what is not what wudda, cudda, shudda.
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