News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
TAIWAN—Citizens of Taiwan reported today they were grateful to receive a free preview of the kind of thing that was going to happen to them in just a few short weeks thanks to America’s weakness on the world stage under President Biden.
People across the country tuned in for the exciting, free sneak preview of what China was going to do to them any day now, now that President Xi is sure that Biden has no backbone whatsoever.
“Welp—I guess we’d better prepare,” local man Huang Zhìháo said as he watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine on TV this morning. “This is gonna be bad.”
“At least we got this nice little teaser trailer though,” he added. “A lot of countries don’t get the privilege of seeing their future like this.”
According to sources, the Taiwanese were hopeful that Biden’s declarations that “America is back” and that he would go toe-to-toe with the world’s toughest leaders meant that Xi Jinping would be held back for another four years. But as soon as he botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, they began to have their doubts. Finally, once they saw him take a long nap while Putin invaded Russia, they realized they were “completely and totally screwed.”
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And to think that once China was our ally against imperial Japan and now they’re more like a psycho-ex-wife with nukes and bio-weapons.
Don L,
That would be “a psycho-ex-wife with nukes and bio-weapons” and owns us.
A psycho ex-wife is unpredictable. China is very much predictable.
China has a repeat playbook it uses to intimidate Taiwan. The Taiwanese have been so used to it over the past quarter of a century, that I don’t think anything shocks them.
China won’t take Taiwan by brute force like a Russia has to Ukraine. It will probably do the slow and low simmer, and win the Taiwanese over to Chinese patriotism- that’s their ultimate long term goal.
Praying that Russia turns on China one day. That would be an absolute ideal situation.