Maybe David Fincher can do a sequel?
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If it wants to take a worthless smoking pile of rubble. Taiwan has virtually no value unless taken with its manufacturing and commercial infrastructure more or less intact. While China has a navy it has no experience in contested waters nor is geared for amphibious operations. Also South Korea and Japan have alliances to protect Taiwan because taking it would be a threat to them as well.
China’s economy is going to collapse in a rather nasty way. It is opaque and oligarchic and already shows signs of weakness peaking through.
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Wow, that is like the real life version of the film, The Evil That Men Do
(One of Charles Bronson’s better 80’s efforts)
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It would be in our (U.S.) best interests, politically/diplomatically, to set aside other concerns and offer what we can to China. Better to have them owing us, going forward.
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I mean… the reasoning to fully control Taiwan is a political one. Destroying it and its manufacturing capabilities would put a dent in the world wide economy, but it would be a “small price to pay” to nix the whole “Taiwan is its own country” once and for all.
Both good reasons for them to continue the tenuous relationship of letting them exist, while getting pissy if anyone in China or with relations with China every acknowledges Taiwan is a country.
I dunno… maybe. I have heard similar things about the US economy completely collapsing when the stilts it is build on are kicked out from under it. I think China is going to be a significant power for a long time.
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Well, maybe not sugar and buckwheat…
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“Russians have absolutely no need to run to the shops and buy up buckwheat, sugar and toilet paper,”
Mighty helpful of the Kremlin to let Russians know exactly what they should be panic buying. Official statements like that never backfire.
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Even americans do that when the japanese start doing that haha
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Actually its a rather large price given the solution to the “Taiwan” thing is more damaging to China in the long run than the passive aggressive economic and political posturing for the last 70+ years.
Its a bad analogy/whataboutism. The US economy for all its faults is still relatively transparent and certainly more used to swings of boom/bust than the Chinese economy. Dictatorships aren’t particularly good at creating stable economies. They are good at hiding their problems and magnifying them. People in an economic bubble seldom understand they are in one until it bursts. I don’t foresee long term economic power on the horizon.
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Hermetically seal the panic room and hope it floats. 
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However, others have hit back at his claims, accusing him of peddling a ‘completely false’ narrative to cover for his failure to get through the vetting process for volunteers in the group he attempted to join.
Harrison Josefowitz, a member of the Georgian Foreign Legion, said Hoeft and another individual were ‘rejected through our vetting process’.
He said the base that had been hit had been 30 kilometres away from Hoeft’s location, and that the vetting process was designed ‘to stop those kind of mindset people from getting here’.
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And maybe a feature that jettisons said panic room out the bottom of the ship when the doors close…
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What? Do you mean to say that Ukraine isn’t just a LARPing adventure?
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That’s what happens when you send a Boogaloo Boy to do a woman’s job.
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Bulgaria Expels 10 Russian Diplomats, Baltics Follow Suit With Another 10 Expulsions
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In 2008 Queen +Paul Rodgers played Kharkiv’s historic Freedom Square in Ukraine to 350,000 people and 10 million TV viewers for free for AIDS awareness.
They’re replaying the concert Sunday to raise money for relief efforts. So far they’ve raised 5 million and Google is matching 25 million.
I’ve seen the concert and the tour in Detroit and New York that year, it’s pretty amazing.
If you’re not doing anything Sunday check it out and donate some money.
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