https://twitter.com/GlobalPressCorp/status/1793582473806569860
The Taiwanese Coast Guard and Chinese navy are currently having a standoff in the Taiwan Strait pic.twitter.com/Bj5lMsN5oC
— Global Press (@GlobalPressCorp) May 23, 2024
I for one welcome our new Chinx overlords.
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Frick man I'm tweaking
is this actually 
prelude to war or do they do this often?
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It's rather frequent. Considering May 20 was the day the new president was sworn in, I would be more surprised if they didn't try to flex their muscle some more.
And it worked, too. Several pro-unification talking heads are blaming this on the new president, urging him to show some goodwill to the PRC to deescalate.
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I know that they make standoffs and even violate airspace rather frequently, just no idea if this is any different.
I was sure nothing was gonna
happen 
when Putin 
started amassing troops near Ukrainian 
border 
because that too happens often and means nothing, yet here we are.
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He should call their bluff and blow some chinese ships up.
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I don't think most Taiwanese would back that action, since Taiwan absolutely needs U.S. intervention to have any chance of survival, and firing the first shot is not a good look.
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depends on what you mean by intervention. China lacks the capability to invade Taiwan in any real way, they can cause damage, but the losses would be staggering.
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They lack the capability for now. They aren't just sitting on their asses and not building up their military strength.
Taiwanese military can try to improve themselves all they want, which they have despite having tons of problem, but it will be the might of the U.S. military to beat back the PLA.
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Chinks are famous for caring its subject's lives and not being literal human zerglings
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Id guess they will when they physically do not have boats left to even try an invasion.
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The Taiwanese plan is now to blow up the Three Gorges Dam in the event of an invasion.
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taiwan doesn't have nukes, though they are dumb as frick if they don't have a secret project going now, since Ukraine proved that the US does not have the attention span to reliably support a defensive war against a superpower.
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Don't think you need a nuke to blow up a dam
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From the outside you pretty much do
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
maybe the size matters, idk
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Even if Taiwan succeeded with that Hail Mary of an attack it would only guarantee the whole island ends up rendered a smoldering irradiated rock instead just being ruled by a moderately more authoritarian chink government.
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Thats the point?
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Would be fantastic for chinese drama.
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No idea lol. ASSUME THE WORST.
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I say this as a feminist ally sadly
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Yet both of us are shitposting right
now
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I am in my bunker tho (i dug a wronghole into the ground and covered it with tinfoil).
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mfw i wronghole the earth
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