Yeah, I've always wondered about this one. People seem to really underestimate the power of 500kg of high explosive. For reference, this is the explosion from a 250kg WW2 era bomb: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wwii-era-bomb-explodes-in-england-in-unplanned-detonation/
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Ah yes, because "the government is incompetent and the spies are all masters of their craft" is a much more believable explanation.
Is there any evidence the US installed the DPP? I figured it sort of just happened once people were sick of the KMT.
The economic co-dependence, cultural co-dependence, and freedom of movement clearly aren't enough. Clearly.
Gee I sure wonder who escalated
That seems like an oddly small pledge tbh
Poland, WaPo, Reuters, the NYT...
Tankies are infiltrating everywhere!
Why would Russia stop when the West wants peace? Russia had an incentive to stop when Western weapons supplies and motivation seemed endless. Now? If the West pull out what's stopping Russia from playing this attrition game until Ukraine runs out of both men and ammo?
Ok but seriously, in what world does it make sense to actually invade Taiwan? Even as a vanity project, the number of men it would lose would destabilize any government.
"democracy is good because it allows for freedom of speech"
This article starts with talking about the spy balloon that wasn't a spy balloon: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre-secret-behind-chinas-spy-balloon/
"The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon,"
After the Navy raised the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic, technical experts discovered the balloon's sensors had never been activated while over the Continental United States.
So, why was it over the United States? There are various theories, with at least one leading theory that it was blown off-track.
So... The only reason people even consider this a spy balloon is because some guy in China launched it? Wonderful.
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