• lauha@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      China is buying in all the good will that USA has lost through Trump being a general dick to everyone, for example by discontinuing USAID. Doing these sort of small things all over the world gives China a lot of soft power because those nations will obviously favor China over USA in the future.

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        But this is not Chinas fault, nor Trumps fault, because the US people put Trump in its place though everybody knew from his first period and through his announcements (Project 2025) what this highly potentially will mean.

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        Countries don’t have empathy, or at least ones with hundreds of millions or even billions of citizens for sure don’t.

        China has realized what the US used to know: Providing aid gives you soft power around the world. They’ve been doing this for over a decade now. The US, meanwhile, handicapped USAID.

        Having some power in that region would certainly benefit China if it ever needs to keep the US at bay while invading Taiwan, for an example. How is any future POTUS, or even the current piece of shit, going to explain positioning a large amount of ships near Taiwan when China has a bunch of equipment ready in Cuba to shell the everloving fuck out of Florida?

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          I have to admit, the idea of Mar-a-Lago being reduced to a crater tickles me pink. Too bad that comes with Taiwan getting fucked over…

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            Well, they could also bomb much of the rest of south Florida, essentially the entire Miami metro area.

            And to be fair I doubt it’ll ever come to that. Just the knowledge of that being a possibility might be enough that the US literally wouldn’t intervene in a war between China and Taiwan. As long as there’s a more rational president in charge than Trump, at least. Which may happen in a few years, or it… may not.

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              22 hours ago

              I suspect that Vance and friends are just as crazy as Trump, just better at hiding their spots. Their brains haven’t turned to mush from age, but Thiel and the like still want to do the apocalyptic things.

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        2 days ago

        sure but Cuba is also a perfect strategic “partner” (read: location) for any nation that has a war plan against the US

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          Funny that you’re getting downvoted, because that’s already happened at least once… Good ol’ Ollie North!