Usually yes, and usually not until afterward.
At this point, as with so many of these individual tea leaves we sift through for hours on end in the early days of a war, trying to discern who’s making progress and who’s not,
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except unfortunately dictators and fascists. for them increasing instability of any and every sort is part of the plan
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Another one went a bit further.
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Quite often, the lumberjack needs repair too.
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Of course, playing the 4D variant does require a few adjustments from Tudor Court Rules, in that who said it “first” has to take causality into account, especially while in spoon.
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In one fell swoop? Yeah, well beyond. But as a push to take a step in the right direction? Probably already happening.
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Bob Rae (Canada’s ambassador to the UN) is a Canadian hero.
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One could argue that, but no forestry expert would. All forests need management (thinning) to keep from becoming raging infernos every year that create a whole lot of CO2 and have a tendency to erase entire towns, like Paradise, CA.
Sure, it would be nice to go back to a time when forests did their own thing untouched by humans, including burning down regularly, but we can’t. Humans live too close to all of them and we need to manage them. This includes small prescribed burns and felling trees as needed.
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Apologies if this has been posted already.
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Perhaps. But invading an island has a bottleneck in the navy. China has spent a lot of money on ships. But Taiwan has been spending big in anti-ship missiles, which are much cheaper than ships.
There are a few other non-military things that protect Taiwan.
- It’s home to a lot of very profitable industries. Best kept intact by the invaders.
Taiwan holds about $240B in US treasury securities, and China holds about $1,000B. In the event of a war, either side might need cash in a hurry. The US economy would not like to cough up a quarter trillion in cash on short notice. The US will encourage peace.
ETA: see @VeronicaConnor 's excellent reply re: point 2.
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… except for that time he literally sent assassins to personally murder Zelensky 
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Exactly. He doesn’t want regime change, he wants regime annihilation.
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I don’t want to agree with that but it sure does feel that way 
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The magic of fiat currency says it would be NBD, not compared to all these pandemics and wars and shit anyway 
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I’ve heard rumors from both Taiwanese and Chinese people living in Japan that China has thousands and thousands of small, fast boats in Fujian that can reach Taiwan in half an hour. I still don’t think it will be quite so easy for them to take over Taiwan though.
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