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BiggDick wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:01 pm
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-state- ... 024-11-30/

US approves $385 mln arms sale to Taiwan

DeletedUser wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:53 am

BiggDick wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:01 pm
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-state- ... 024-11-30/

US approves $385 mln arms sale to Taiwan

So...what's your issue with this one?

BiggDick wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 9:42 am I suppose I have a few issues with this one, illy.

In no particular order...

I'm afraid it's that "P" word. We really seem to be trying to provoke our imperial adversaries in China. They consider Taiwan part of their country, and we're firing off one giant arms sale after another to them anyway. If, say, China kept flooding weapons into, say, Puerto Rico, I don't think our country would be cool with them doing it to us...yet when we do it to them, it barely even makes the news.

I'm critical of the Biden administration here. He's got like less than two months left in office, and of all the last minute Hail Marys he could be going for, he's doubling down on even more of the high-priced warmongering that's such a large part of what's made him as unpopular as he is in the first place. Read the fucking room, Uncle Joe. I do not think history will be kind. Heck, I do not think voters were kind on Election Day, but that's more so about the economy. But all these things are inevitably related.

Speaking of the economy...is there really no other thing our gummint can think to do with (another) $385 million? Maybe something that actually fixes something or actually helps somebody? Maybe even actually helps the U.S. taxpayers whose dollars are footing the bills?

With all these weapons sales I keep hearing the "money laundering" term come up. But, admittedly, that's just an observation, and not a journalistically sound take. Then again, it's not like there's many journalistically sound takes considering things around these like, hey maybe all these high-dollar weapons sales to all these imperial allies are largely just money laundering.

and back to warmongering...aren't our tax dollars already caught up enough in other imperial proxy wars that still have no end in sight, in places like Ukraine and Lebanon and Gaza and the West Bank and Syri...ah, prob shouldn't jump to conclusions about that one yet, right.

I mean what are the odds that the nation pouring gasoline on imperial fires all across the world, and just literal days after the (pretend) ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon right next door happened, is also caught up too in Syria? It's not like we already have like a dozen U.S. military bases and thousands of U.S. soldiers across Syria. Oh wait, we do?! Well it's not like we been training a bunch of rebel fighters as proxies there, so what are the odds.

At least with Taiwan, we haven't heard of much actual fighting or casualties...yet. That's prob largely to China's credit. That feels weird to say, but again, if China was trying to weaponize some island on our doorstep that we consider part of our country, I don't think we'd approach the situation with much temperament.

That's just off the top of my head. There's prob more issues yet.

And I realize these takes have been, and prob still are, very controversial. But, if anyone's instinct here is to knee-jerk put me down as controversial, this time, rather than do so again, maybe just ask yourself:

why?

BiggDick wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 9:42 am Speaking of the economy...is there really no other thing our gummint can think to do with (another) $385 million? Maybe something that actually fixes something or actually helps somebody? Maybe even actually helps the U.S. taxpayers whose dollars are footing the bills?

BiggDick wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 10:35 am wait so did you guys get paid for this?

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 10:33 am I look forward to learning about how these facts [illy] and gutter have raised are beside the point.