Provoking China to waste enormous resources on a space station and giant military is a fantastic way to get them to burn money they might otherwise use to embarrass us with a green economy or higher standard of living.https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1227953.shtml …
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I know that the giant military is supposed to be used to scare Taiwan, but the idea that after a 40 year hiatus the PLA is going to go from getting its ass kicked by Vietnam to pulling off Normandy II strikes me as a stretch.
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(In fairness I also believe that the US Army would fail in an amphibious invasion of Taiwan)
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I saw some discussion in the press saying that if we leave Afghanistan, China might fill the "power vacuum", as if getting that government to burn trillions of dollars on futile empire-building instead of ours was a bad outcome.
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Wonder if the CIA ever regretted training the Afghan forces so well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Maybe the US military should get some of this magical CIA training
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