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Washington Post losing its mind over the fact that Singapore is not as rabidly anti-China as the US wishes
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I imagine Taiwan isn't as open to the idea of becoming Ukraine 2 as the Pentagon is hoping so now they're looking for alternatives.
I mean if people living there have any brains I imagine they're not looking at what happened to Ukraine and going yeah we'd like some of that here too.
The regular civilians and even active troops themselves are not keen on the prospects of fighting, but the deep green (pro DPP) media keeps pushing the "it will be easy to win with our US troops" narrative. One of their genius experts even said something on the lines of "our missiles probably have a 70% chance to intercept one from the mainland, so if we fire three then it will be 210% success".
The DPP has only been good at a few things, namely selling out the interests of the people to western capital and building their own wealth through corruption while changing the compulsory education system to eradicate any historical ties between the province and the dreaded C word. This has poisoned the minds of many youth into believing that they are somehow higher grade humans than the mainlanders after being graced by western and Japanese dominance (similar to many youths in HK).
US propaganda machine is well oiled for sure, and we've already seen how well brainwashing worked in Ukraine. Hopefully, once that project collapses it's going to be a bit of a wake up call. I did see that KMT is polling well, do you think it's likely that DPP gets kicked out and negotiations from 2014 restart?
It's quite possible but the KMT are nicknamed 百年烂党 (roughly translated to crappy centennial party) for a reason lol. They do at least recognize the shared history and lineage with the mainland but certain groups within them have went for a "two China" or a "Chinese commonwealth" solution in the past (which would be rejected as it breaks the one China policy).
They will ease tensions to a degree and seek to resume some trade with the mainland, but anything substantial will be dragged through the mud by the DPP (they do their best snake oil sales routine as the opposition party lol). While the DPP rabidly scream for independence and elements of the KMT continuing their own under the table independence, neither have dared to breach their own constitution by declaring it or even taking it to the polls lol.
That does sound like a mess, seems like there's lots of opportunists all pulling things in different directions. Much the way politics in the west go as well.
Plenty of anti-US sentiments in Taiwan already, same with Japan, much more than even a decade ago. Only a matter of time before a critical mass of people realize that the West does not have their interests in mind.