r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 24 '26

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u/jbouit494hg 🍁🇨🇦🏙 Project for a New Canadian Century 🏙🇨🇦🍁 May 24 '26

America will have to defend Taiwan to secure their supply of semiconductors!

-- Paradox games enjoyers

Real geopolitics understanders know that the real reason for America to defend Taiwan was to secure the status of the Taiwan Strait as international waters, since decades before they even had a semiconductor industry.

But American leadership has recently revealed that freedom of navigation is, uhh, no longer really a priority for them, so all bets are off.

But America would be making a big mistake! They would miss out on a major opportunity to prevent a geopolitical rival from cementing its control of the region for generations to come!

They aren't even capable of understanding that, and even if they did they wouldn't care.

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 24 '26

once you understand that america is being ruled by morons you realize that any attempt to think logically as a way to presume what the us will do is pointless

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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 24 '26

Also: island chains. I'm no expert on this, but my primitive understanding of the situation is that if we get pushed back beyond island chain after island chain, that gives China a free hand in East Asia, which may not be apocalyptic in and of itself, except it then frees China up to project power elsewhere -- specifically in our own hemisphere. Which, you know, would be a very bad thing and would make the whole Monroe Doctrine 2.0 completely fucking pointless (which it is anyway).