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[DaKardii]

** 04-Jul-2021 World View: Semiconductors

> Is Taiwan even strategically important to the US? If so, why?

> TSMC

> Are we really that reliant on that one company for semiconductors?
> If so, that’s a strategic blunder on our part. If we aren’t
> producing our own, then we must at least diversify our outsources
> so we’re not too reliant on one country.

That would be nice in some fantasyland of the future, but today TSMC
is a critical component in the supply chain for everything from phones
to cars, and so for this and many other reasons, Taiwan is
strategically important to the US and must be defended.

Great... :/

If we’ve really run out of time to fix that, then that really sucks.

Anyway, Happy Independence Day, everyone!

[DaKardii]

Dakardii is a pro-CCP shill.

You must be new here.
Welcome to the forum.

Dakardii is paid in spring rolls and wonton soup, so he doesn't consider what he does as treachery.

I’m not pro-CCP. I’m just (generally) a non-interventionist.

I would gladly support retaliatory measures if the CCP attacked countries that actually share a border with the US (such as Japan or Russia). But Taiwan ain’t one of those countries.

[spottybrowncow]

I’m not pro-CCP. I’m just (generally) a non-interventionist.

I would gladly support retaliatory measures if the CCP attacked countries that actually share a border with the US (such as Japan or Russia). But Taiwan ain’t one of those countries.

Unlike some of our other posters, I don't have any particular history expertise (other than a normal "pre-woke" education). However, I view the U.S. not defending against an invasion of Taiwan as heaping a disaster upon a disaster. China would take our inaction as the green light to start militarily empire-building. There is no question they would eventually attack us directly if we didn't agree to be their slaves. Taiwan is a "red line."

[John]

** 04-Jul-2021 World View: BBC Investigation into horrific treatment of children at southern border

Several weeks ago I wrote about a BBC documentary on the horrific
treatment of children at the border by the Biden administration.

*** 08-Jun-2021 World View: BBC's hidden documentary: Detained in America
viewtopic.php?p=61698#p61698

Thousands of children are being crammed into "iceboxes" where they
have no chance to shower, they endure sexual abuse, they sleep on top
of each other for warmth, and spread lice, scabies, covid, and other
diseases. The Democrats couldn't care less about the suffering of
these thousands of children, just as they couldn't care less about the
Chinese Communist torture, rape and enslavement of millions of
Uighurs.

As I wrote at the time, the documentary was not available online
except in the UK. The BBC receives a great deal of funding from
NPR and has to report the news as ordered by the Democrats.

However, the situation is so bad, that the BBC has followed up
with a segment on the "From Our Own Correspondents" podcast.
The podcast contains several segments, but I'm referring to
the first segment. Here's a description of the podcast:

> "America's Border Camps for Children

> From Our Own Correspondent Podcast

> Misery in facilities for migrant minors on the US-Mexico border;
> backlash against pardons in Spain; anxiety in Afghanistan; race
> and policing in Ireland; a drowned town in Turkey"

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09mm9nn

> https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselect ... 9mm8z7.mp3

Listening to this podcast is sickening. She talks about hundreds of
girls being forcibly packed together and locked up in a tent because
they all have lice. That's just the start. Sexual assault is common,
and covid is widespread.

It's amazing that no American media, even Fox News, dares to do a
similar investigation. It shows just how powerful the Stalist Fascist
Democrat censorship regime is. It's also ironic that these crimes are
so horrific, that they're too much for even the BBC to ignore.

It's increasingly obvious that Joe Biden and the Biden administration
are vicious and evil. There's no excuse for the horrific things
they're doing. They've adopted policies to torture children at the
southern border, to kill thousands of blacks on the streets of
Chicago, Detroit, and other cities, and to destroy the US
Constitutional form of government.

There is no excuse for the Democrats. They are as vicious and evil as
the Nazis, the Soviets, the Chinese Communists, and any other horrific
regime you can think of.

They will get their comeuppance.

[Tom Mazanec]

John, I admit we will snap at some point but I don’t know if Taiwan will be that point, at lease initially. Perhaps we will let China take Taiwan and repent when we suffer the consequences, or even wait till they go after Japan or Australia?

[Tom Mazanec]

Also, I agree that becoming so dependent on Taiwan for chips was not a mistake, it was a blunder.

[DaKardii]

I’m not pro-CCP. I’m just (generally) a non-interventionist.

I would gladly support retaliatory measures if the CCP attacked countries that actually share a border with the US (such as Japan or Russia). But Taiwan ain’t one of those countries.

Unlike some of our other posters, I don't have any particular history expertise (other than a normal "pre-woke" education). However, I view the U.S. not defending against an invasion of Taiwan as heaping a disaster upon a disaster. China would take our inaction as the green light to start militarily empire-building. There is no question they would eventually attack us directly if we didn't agree to be their slaves. Taiwan is a "red line."

In my opinion, a “red line” should be either (A) attacking us directly; (B) attacking a country that directly borders us; or (C) going to war with another major power, in extreme cases. Taiwan doesn’t fit any of those categories.

[Tom Mazanec]

I respectfully disagree, DaKardii.
That will be too late. The time to fight evil is when it is starting, not when it has advanced and the fight is far darker.

[DaKardii]

I respectfully disagree, DaKardii.
That will be too late. The time to fight evil is when it is starting, not when it has advanced and the fight is far darker.

It’s not in our national interests to seek and fight evil wherever it rears its head. It’s up to us as individuals to do that, before Christ’s return.

[Guest]

I’m not pro-CCP. I’m just (generally) a non-interventionist.

I would gladly support retaliatory measures if the CCP attacked countries that actually share a border with the US (such as Japan or Russia). But Taiwan ain’t one of those countries.

Unlike some of our other posters, I don't have any particular history expertise (other than a normal "pre-woke" education). However, I view the U.S. not defending against an invasion of Taiwan as heaping a disaster upon a disaster. China would take our inaction as the green light to start militarily empire-building. There is no question they would eventually attack us directly if we didn't agree to be their slaves. Taiwan is a "red line."

In my opinion, a “red line” should be either (A) attacking us directly; (B) attacking a country that directly borders us; or (C) going to war with another major power, in extreme cases. Taiwan doesn’t fit any of those categories.

I live in Asiaa and oppose China. If the US fails to protect Taiwan, all of Asia will fall to Beijing. America will have zero credibility and you will have to fight China--all alone.