wild so apparently the Chinese invasion of Taiwan would involve lots of converted, unarmored commercial vessels to carry troops this seems like a bad idea in the sense that they would be easy to sink, and doing so would cripple chinas exporting ability?https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/07/27/thousands-of-ships-millions-of-troops-china-is-assembling-a-huge-assault-flotilla-for-a-possible-attack-on-taiwan/amp/ …
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I don't think there would be an organized military response by the Taiwanese state against Chinese occupation forces, since the outcome is clear and most Taiwanese stand more to loose than to win by resisting the inevitable. Troop carriers might at worst face small arms?
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internal pressures different set of preferences rationality is highly locally defined
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example scenario: xi feels at risk of overthrow, starts an ex ante extremely popular conflict to shore up support via nationalism. if it works hes safe, if it doesnt hes fucked anyway perfectly rational
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let me refer you to other conflicts falling out of rational calculations such as "world war one"
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