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Taiwan says it’s preparing to defend itself after 149 Chinese warplanes entered its airspace
submitted 2 years ago by [deleted] from stripes.com
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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (2 children)
I hope Taiwan makes them pay dearly when China invades. I wonder if we have nukes there or can get them there in time, do another Cuba Missile Crisis. Not sure that's a great idea but we might be able to really make it hurt to take Taiwan and possibly escape retaliation.
[–]TheJamesRocket 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
If there is a war between China and Taiwan, then hopefully it will be a conventional war. It is not worth escalating to the nuclear threshold.
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
As of 2016, there have been 2,624 nuclear explosions throughout history. A few more won't end the world. Just too horrific to use? Nagasaki and Hiroshima killed a combined 226,000 people. We killed more people in the last two conventional wars. This will minimize future casualties if it works.
China wants to rule the world. The US does a shitty job of running things and that's an understatement, but I don't think China would be better. They're the most murderous people in history.
I say we give Taiwan a dozen nukes and they can do with them what they want.
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