[RLK]

And Taiwanese could decide to surrender and not bother fighting.

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It's not a matter of "bothering" to fight. It's a matter of military vulnerability. You have a group of people in a small area facing overwhelming numbers who can be wiped out very easily with the aid of mocern technology.

[Quix]

TRUE ENOUGH.

However, it is also simple bother. They won't bother to read the training manuals for the Patriot missles. They won't bother to do the maintenance. They won't bother to do the training. They just don't want to be bothered. They'd rather play Majang or Chinese chess or drink beer and gamble. . . or just be couch potatoes.

One highly paid expert TRIED EVERY WAY HE COULD FIGURE THAT WAS LEGAL AND HONORABLE to change their aversion to bothering--for at least 5 years--to no avail. He finally gave up and retired.

So if the patriot missle batteries work against the Mainland Chinese--something will have changed or it's not the fault of the Taiwanese that they work.

Their rationalization is a classic Chinese one: "It's not the Chinese way. We don't need to do . . . .[whatever the dumb western barbarian thinks we need to do] because we're Chinese.

Overwhelming military odds? That will depend on a lot of factors. Taiwan has many advantages from a defensive standpoint. . . . especially IF there's a will to fight and the equipment and training etc. to do it well.