Not this century. Something else was going on.
But again, the point is what do they think it is. If you want to ignore their take, that's fine. If you are okay with war, then say it.
But the problem with that is, to borrow from another thread, YouBet put it perfectly. We only have one throw--we have to choose:
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Quote:I don't care and not sure that we should in the grand scheme of things. We have zero strategic interest there.Quote:
100% agree with #2. The big question is, do we care? Should we care? Or do we go with appeasement?
I think we are a war weary country (rightfully so) and this ends the way Putin wants.
Taiwan is an actual, critical strategic concern. China will own the planet if they take Taiwan...at least as long as it would take us to ramp up our own chip production enough to offset which is at least 5 years away, if not longer.
Would rather we divert resources to them than Ukraine.