Apologies for the url being a screenshot, for some reason the lemmur app won’t let me paste in the URL box, so here’s the link to the article: https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/1/headlines/house_speaker_pelosi_will_visit_taiwan_despite_warnings_from_china
US is feeling really ballsy lately. Would be hilarious if their response was to start meeting with leaders of seperatists in Hawaii, Texas, Puerto Rico, Alaska, even California lmao. Do you guys think they’re trying to force a confrontation while Russia is bogged down in Ukraine? Kinda seems like that is their goal. Bog down Russia as long as possible and while Russia is busy take advantage of US having all of Europe in a firm bloc? They are also trying to form a bloc I feel to slow down the insane amount of trade china does with Europe, but if they keep up the sanctions on Russia and China we may see some European countries go neutral or even side with china out of pure economic necessity. The US economy is collapsing and dollar hegemony in waning- even Saudi Arabia is now trading with china in yuan.
Chiang Kai Shek lost the war, like US Confederates did. Unlike the Confederates, they fled to an island off the coast and immediately got naval support from Europe. It would be like if the US Confederates lost and fled to the Florida Keys, or Long Island, and then the French and English sent ships to stop the Union army from completing their victory.
Then, on Taiwan, Chiang Kai Shek’s army effectively wiped out the entire indigenous population and established a fascist military dictatorship for the next several decades, all with support from Europe.
Basically, the entire reason Taiwan exists as a separate country is explicitly as a fascist military bridgehead into China for imperialists to use whenever China gets uppity.