Taiwan is a US military asset, not a US ally. That’s a very significant difference that everyone, especially the Taiwanese, would do well to keep in mind.

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Yes, I would. As to why: Because America stands up for it's values and fights for the underdog. America fights for what's right because if it didn't, the world's superpowers would lock America out of Imperial Preference trade zones and nobody would buy the delicious Del Monte pineapples or drive Fords or watch Marvel movies.

I think there is a very strong case to be made that we have done just the opposite of that in South America for decades (The contra affair is just one example of many). We have used coups, embargo's, and other destabilization tactics in this region for a long time, mainly in the interest of preventing these regions from attempting any form of socialism - which would mean food and labor would not be as cheap or ripe for us to exploit economically, and mean an end to your cheap Del Monte pineapples.

The bigger problem is that these tactics that destabilized these regions, has also caused a flood of illegal immigration, which otherwise would have never occurred.

[–]Site_rly_sux 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with regards to del Monte, a company who stole an island from the Hawaiian people in a coup, it's not a squeaky clean history.

Regarding socialism in Latin America - I think today's Nicaragua shows what forces America was up against in Latin America. America put down a lot of socialist revolutions in that part of the world but it didn't put down the Sandinista revolution. In return, today, Nicaragua is 100% aligned with the Kremlin special operation narrative, is a base for russian troops, votes with the russia in the UN.

America wasn't fighting socialist politics, it was fighting insidious russian influence. The russia shares responsibility for destabilising the region, not solely america. It's an off topic conversation anyway. This thread is about the hilarity of chipit complaining about people only reading the headline and not the article (when he composed the headline with very little reference to the articles contents and couldn't back up his position LMAO)

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

his thread is about the hilarity of chipit complaining about people only reading the headline and not the article (when he composed the headline with very little reference to the articles contents and couldn't back up his position LMAO)

Indeed, carry on good sir, I don't mean to distract from important work

[–]Insider 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

site_rly_sux is a neoliberal government agent

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

His previous alt was site_sux