We just casually out here kidnapping heads of state now?
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So this is how 2026 starts.
Oh boy.
This is going to be a decade of a year, isn't it?
A decade?
I see an optimist.
I expect the wars just to escalate. First countries are running out of water, that's gonna accelerate soon.
None of this will end well. And we knew it would happen decades ago.
Oh well.
Kamala would have done the same as Trump because these things are decided by the 3 letter organisations, the politicians are just some face to show to the public.
Oh yeah, I'm totes sure Kamala would also be trying to annex Greenland /s
Guys, it's fine. Remember? Trump has the FIFA peace price.
See, it's all the Europeans' fault. They offended him by not handing him the actual Nobel Peace Prize. What's a dictator to do, then, but to invade and bomb yet another country.
Those europeens countries that keep licking the US boots? They are so happy to see Maduro abducted
Kaya Kallas on Elon Musks Twitter/X:
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. Under all circumstances, the principles of international law and the UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint. The safety of EU citizens in the country is our top priority.
Does not sound like boot licking to me, but looking out for your own interest!
The strongest countries of the EU are just a bunch of hypocrites . Just like they publicly opposed Iraq war but was involved in supporting the US military. Europe participated directly in destroying Libya and most welcomed the Nobel Peace Prize for Machado which we all know is just a Puppet for Trump
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Trump is friends with the Saudis. The Saudi's oil brings in billions of dollars a day. Trump covets that treasure, and wants the same thing for himself.
Venezuela sits on the largest oil reserve on the planet. Whoever controls Venezuela, controls the oil, and Trump has already announced this morning, even before his official announcement that the operation even happened, that they will be taking control of the oil.
Follow the money: This is all about stealing Venezuela's oil for Trump's personal financial benefit. Our military has become the muscle for the Trump Crime Family.
Bottom Line: This certainly isn't about drugs. He just PARDONED the ex-prez of Honduras, who had been convicted of Narcoterrorism in an America court, and was serving decades in an American prison, for doing the exact same thing that he is claiming for Maduro. So save me the breathless rationalization about flooding our cities with drugs.
Again, Follow the money: Trump will pardon Maduro once he pays the proper bribe, and he is in full control of the Oil.
So much for not following illegal orders. US army is the world's largest terrorist organization.
Well, it's an order by the president, so it has to be legal... it is legal right? RIGHT?
FEEL THE WRATH OF OUR FREEDOM
This Futurama bit has passed the test of time
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFiutKZjRW8&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
I'm flabbergasted, this is insane. Why wouldn't China invade Taiwan now ?
China isn't AS imperial as the US or Russia. They're focused on domestic issues and spiking the price of consumer electronics by bombing fabs and spiking the price of everything else through western sanctions is not good for the domestic economy.
Why wouldn't China invade Taiwan yesterday? Cheap justifications are a dime a dozen, allied fleets of over a hundred ships next door ready to respond to an invasion on a dime are not.
Not sure if China can actually send many families' only children into an offensive war... could be a lot of backlash...
If they die, the family's bloodline end.
I'm Chinese American, my entire family was born in China including myself.
My parents really want me to have children. And I mean now I kinda do too, but like I actually want to create life that have the positive childhood I had... but minus the bad parts (my parents were sometimes emotionally abusive, I certainly will not do that if I ever have children). But like when I was a teen, before I really thought about it, but my mom really pushed for it. She really want grandchildren. I mean she probably will have grandchildren, but I'll have to limit their exposure to my mom... she could get toxic (sometimes, not always)... I know my maternal grandmother said awful things to me, I wouldn't want my parents to do that to my kids.
I can't speak for every Chinese person, idk about mainland China nowadays, but my mother really want bloodline to go on. I mean... she literally violated the One Child Policy to have me... she said she wanted my older brother to have someone to play with... (lol our relationship is kinda hostile now, cold-war like), and I feel like its the bloodline thing... if my brother dies, I could still carry on the blood, so its 2x more likely she'd have grandchildren basically, I'm sort of a "backup" in her eyes (she didn't say it, but this is how I feel tbh). I had an experience when I ran away from home when I was like 6, and later I asked my mom how she'd feel if I got kidnapped, she said she'd just move on and focus on my older brother... like... bruh...
Cuz she'd still have a chance to continue the bloodline so she didn't care if one of her kids went missing (she didn't say this part, but I'm just assuming from what she said)
She tells me she loves me very often... but honestly idk, I'm kinda skeptical.
So TLDR: Many Chinese people do care. I was born around the 2000s and my parents certainly cares. I'm like military age now, those in the PLA were probably born around the same era as I did, I'm pretty sure the parents of the soldiers in the PLA would have the same mindset as my parents, they're same generation I mean, but again, I'm not there anymore so I can't say for certain.
Edit: Oh yea btw apparantly, my older brother is planning to go back to China for marriage and then bring them over here in the US. Because my mom is constantly urging him to get married and she used WeChat to contact her network of people to help find a potential match... so... yea... there's that... arranged marriage sort of stuff.
Porcupine, plus too many other countries depend on its chips.
The United States has negotiated "Pax Silica" so that it doesn't need Taiwan for chips....
Why would China need to invade Taiwan? They assert that Taiwan is already a part of China. That would be like the US invading Kentucky. Right? Or is Taiwan a different country from China?
Yea, that is actually not a good analogy...
Two differences in your analogy.
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Kentucky agrees that it is part of the US. Taiwan does not believe they are part of China.
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The rest of the world agrees with the US that Kentucky is part of the US. The rest of the world does not agree that Taiwan is part of China.
Also, the US has been invading its own cities.
That's exactly why he is invading Venezuela.
The courts have been holding him back from deploying national guard - let alone active-duty troops - domestically. He's got ICE, but he wants more. He wants to declare martial law. He wants troops in the cities. Active-duty, Federal troops, not weekend warriors. The courts say he can't do that without the Alien Enemies act, and they say he can't invoke that act without a war.
So we have a war.
Taiwan does consider itself China. In fact, declaring they're not might verywellbe the trigger for the invasion. I get that they're de facto two separate countries, but de jure, PRC and ROC are two sides of the world's longest and coldest civil war.
- Taiwan's constition states that they are a part of mainland China. Their position is that the ROC and not the PRC are the rightful government.
- 142 or so countries agree that the PRC is the rightful government of Taiwan. 12 recognize the ROC. And, importantly, 50 or so, including the US, acknowledges the claim that the PRC is making without agreeing or disagreeing with it.
Because Taiwan is where the only opposition to the ruling Chinese party lives.
I guess they would just kidnap, I mean "capture", the president of Taiwan to be charged in their courts. No need to invade, it's just "law enforcement" without a warrant like what Trump is doing now.
Yes, the PRC claims that there is one country and Taiwan is a part of it. They also know that a seperatist group maintains control of Taiwan. If the confederacy lost all but Kentucky in the civil war, the US would still need to regsin control by military means. I'm not sure it would be called an invasion though.
You have got it backwards. The correct analogy would be if the Confederacy won the Civil War by conquering all of the states in the Union except for Rhode Island, but then later claimed that it was actually Rhode Island that was the separatist group and demanded that everyone in the world agree with this.

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