Those wars were a long time ago. We are talking about current behavior right now. Not to say that those actions arent important, but if we are going to bring those past wars from a long time ago into this, then we also have to bring stuff like the invasion of Czechloslovakia, invasion of Afghanistan, and Russian-Chinese Border War into this.
Well, if you want to talk about recently, let talk about the 9 dash line or the cow tongue of commie china. See it? That's how much china is claiming as its own territory, 90% of INTERNATIONAL body of water. And look up on how commie china invaded and took the whole Paracels and parts of Spratlys and used intimidation and lies to take Scarborough Shoal from smaller neighbors. Don't forget how commie china used bigger ships to ram small wooden fishing boats from poor and unarmed fishermen to prevent them from fishing in international water.
Precisely. Add to that China's huge population and a historical narrative which IMO is more unstable than Russia's, and you have the possibility of a real peer competitor to the USA.Well, if you want to talk about recently, let talk about the 9 dash line or the cow tongue of commie china. See it? That's how much china is claiming as its own territory, 90% of INTERNATIONAL body of water. And look up on how commie china invaded and took the whole Paracels and parts of Spratlys and used intimidation and lies to take Scarborough Shoal from smaller neighbors
The UN/World Court/Tribune declared a few months ago that commie china has no right (historically or anything) to claim such outrageous and laughable thing.
Imagine Iran gets a line and claims 90% of the Persian Gulf as its own. LOL.
But why does Trump support Russia and their policies in Syria while wanting to place sanctions back on Iran? If Syria becomes stable will be still support sanctions on Iran against the wishes if Russia?
How am I being traitorous? What is with this Russia-hating hysteria? All it does is create this loop of mutual suspicion which is pretty destructive and unnecessary. Don't disagree that there is much questionable, but a lot of it is like blaming Obama for the murder of Michael Brown. You could easily set it up like that, and someone without knowledge of the nuance of the situation wouldn't know the better.
Hardly a coincidence the white-country crowd find Putin & co less off-putting than all the brown folks.
None of that territory is actually officially considered part of any country however. The PRC, ROC, Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam have all been squabbling over those islands for decades. Furthermore, no one actually really lives on those islands, and they are not significant homeland territories of any country in the area.Well, if you want to talk about recently, let talk about the 9 dash line or the cow tongue of commie china. See it? That's how much china is claiming as its own territory, 90% of INTERNATIONAL body of water. And look up on how commie china invaded and took the whole Paracels and parts of Spratlys and used intimidation and lies to take Scarborough Shoal from smaller neighbors. Don't forget how commie china used bigger ships to ram small wooden fishing boats from poor and unarmed fishermen to prevent them from fishing in international water.
The UN/World Court/Tribune declared a few months ago that commie china has no right (historically or anything) to claim such outrageous and laughable thing.
Imagine Iran gets a line and claims 90% of the Persian Gulf as its own. LOL.
You know why? Because Putin and co haven't attacked the United States, while Muslims have.
Putin has been set on reconstituting their rival/adversarial superpower status, or at least perception as such, and it's hard to argue this threat with thousands of nukes and other advanced tech pales to some largely hapless brown people no matter what many conservatives are willing to believe. Never knew such wannabe tough guys are so easily content to be the bottom in that relationship.
You seem under the impression that you were arguing someone with the mental acuity to discern proportionality.
If there was any doubt of how potent & clever Putin is, witness how easily he got half the american populace apologizing for him if not caressing his balls by attacking their Real enemy, the centrist democrats.
"So other than human rights, democracy, self-determination, integrity of Europe, international alliances, rule of law, discourgement of Chinese aggression, and geopolical stability...
Democracy promotion is really dumb. It didn't work in Iraq. It really isn't applicable to most societies. Most of the time it is just a veneer under which the same old power cliches rule as before. It ends up being a form of kow-towing, in a Chinese sense, to the Americans, where the members of the ruling cliche give lip service.
Yea, democracy was the fatal flaw to the otherwise brilliant Iraq invasion plan of the last GOP president...
Other countries have been in control their areas for years. Sure, other countries bickering among themselves but commie china was the ONLY one that used deadly force to invade and lies to take those areas from smaller neighbors. Commie china never had any historical control of anything in SCS (the 9 dash line), that's why commie china declined to participate in the UN/World Court because it knew all along that it would lose the case and sure enough, it did lose badly.
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