I don’t care about Maduro, as far as I’m concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It’s a collective hangover, a horrible one.
It’s 2016 all over again. It’s seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it’s more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.
This is far from improving, and we know it.
They’ll have to invade Taiwan while agent Orange is still on his throne, to be confident that the US will allow it. A few overvalued property purchases should do it.
And he won’t be on his throne in 2030 because… because what exactly?
Hopefully he dies before the end of this term
…ide be happy with the end of the day if that’s at all possible
The US doesn’t exactly have the capacity to stop China from taking an island like 200 miles off their coast. They have been designing their entire military around this exact conflict for 75 years and have an entire branch if their military dedicated to missiles.
We do have the capacity to make it more expensive to invade than to simple peacefully reunify at an indeterminate time in the future, when the US is hopelessly behind and the PRC can offer an infinitely better deal (so good you can’t refuse).
The only way the equation changes is if “eventual” peaceful reunification is ever off the table, or there’s political instability that might cause the prc to be welcomed.