Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "Could JAPAN save TAIWAN from CHINA? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

Japan won't lift a finger unless it has America at its back. And celebrating that is the epitome of shortsightedness. Only spoiled westerners thousands of kilometres away from the consequences celebrate war, just like they did in Afghanistan and Iraq. If the war was next to your homes, perhaps then you people wouldn't be so keen on it. Pathetic.
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@Minerva3 The US hasn't risked its own neck in war for over 150 years. And as soon as they incur any significant losses they pull out - and their idea of 'significant' is laughable. Afghans lost around 300,000 people and kept fighting, the US left after a couple thousand. The Vietnamese lost over 3 million and kept fighting, the US panicked over 50k losses. America fights wars because it never has to face the consequences. If it ever feels the slightest prick, it flees.
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@overworlder Guam is a military base. So is Iwo Jima and Korea. The American homeland hasn't faced the costs of war for over 150 years. Hell they've become so soft that even just military losses worry them if they get 'too high'. Korea knows what true war feels like, which is why they're careful. India does too. And even Taiwan, which is why they're more circumspect about this issue than their American ally lol! (go ahead, look up surveys to see how in favor of confrontation they are) All these and more countries understand the devastation of war. America understands nothing but decadence - the closest risk came to their homeland was the Cuban Missile Crisis, and they completely flipped out about it. And yet they've got missiles and bases close to both China and Russia today. Cos they really really want the wars to be over there, cos it hitting their home will feel like doomsday to them. Even WW2 was like that btw. The US incurred the least losses, but crowed about its victory to no end.
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@overworlder Lol! Talk about self-serving narratives. The US has literally helped install dictators (Chile, for example), and allied with many others (KSA, for example). Or consider Cuba, where the US waxes eloquent about freedom to attack Castro, yet they were on great terms with the previous dictator Batista. The US does what it does to serve its own interest, not to fight fascism or any other values. Even Taiwan only got American support following the Korean war, as part of its broader efforts to counter the USSR (and nowadays China) - Taiwan was itself a dictatorship at the time. Hypocrites.
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@Minerva3 "US not retaliate will only make [Taliban / Vietcong / etc.] more bold and that's not what the US wanted to see." Oh wait, they did that lol! Like I said, America can't stomach losses. They'll retaliate, as long as it doesn't hurt them too much. If it does, then we'll see just how straight America's spine really is...
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@overworlder Nice ad hominem AND strawman you got there bub. Fortunately my country knows the true cost of war as well, and yes for democracy - we've fought 5 of them since independence, including against China. And we've learned not to rely on hypocrites like you, who'll as soon support us as dump us as it suits your interests (which you've already done before btw, so this is hardly hypothetical), while claiming to have values. Ironically, despite being a democratic country, Russia has been a more reliable ally for us. But an American like you probably can't even piece together which country I'm talking about.
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@Minerva3 Nukes in China means nukes in the US as well. But in any case, this is all idle speculation. Even if war were to break out, it's unlikely anyone's gonna use any nukes. Even the US has said it'll "bomb them into the Stone Age" to multiple countries over the years. So whatever.
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@Woad_Brah just look at the last 20 years: killing hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan, killing even more in Iraq, the unlawful sanctions against Cuba, the repeated threats of aggression against China USA is literally out of control
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@Woad_Brah The entire world? Lol, you might want to look up world surveys before speaking out of your ass. The US is considered the greatest threat to world peace - by a large margin - not China. That's not me speaking. Feel free to look it up. You'll find the poll that shows that - conducted by Gallup of all agencies, so hardly some Chinese propaganda source.
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@johndunn2718 "Also let's not pretend that the west has been more aggressive in years. The United States and China both want to be THE super power." - The west has literally been involved in half a dozen wars in the last few years, including directly launching two of them that've killed the most people. China hasn't been to war in decades. As for "THE super power", Chinese statements always use a certain phrase - 'a multi-polar world order', as opposed to the unipolar one that's existed for the last 30 years. That hardly sounds like an aspiration to be "THE super power". More like they just don't want to be made to play by America's rules and bow to American threats - keep in mind that they've got American bases close to home, when that happened to the US in Cuba they flipped out and have punished Cuba ever since. Consider this - military spending per capita. Of course the US has the highest military spending as it has the biggest economy (though China is expected to eclipse that by the end of this decade, but still not in terms of its military spending...), so per capita military spending corrects for that. It allows smaller economies to rise, showing how truly militarist they really are. Guess what? The US still comes in SECOND in the world! It's only beaten by Israel, which has far more reason to do it (the US has almost no reason - it's in one of the safest positions on Earth, with two massive oceans on either side, and two weak neighbours above and below). What about China? It's 58th, being Azerbaijan lol! 58th!!! For context, Russia is 25th. So now please tell me who's coming across as the more militarist nation, hmm?...
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@NeostormXLMAX India has a no first use nuke policy, and has even more reason not to nuke China if it hasn't been nuked itself than the US does - cos it has even more to lose in such an exchange. I should know - that's my country honey. We'll fight China for our our own reasons, not for the sake of some western agenda. If China turns our way we'll go to war, but we're not interested in being some puppet. The UK will do nothing without America's leave. And Germany and France are already trying to work through the current American-led tensions because they're not keen for an unnecessary war at all. Ironically China is rushing to establish more trade routes to Europe, both over land and sea, so it'd actually be the US who'd be impeding trade via war.
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@ilcielorosso6074 Lol! Fitting that that's the best you can come up with. No wonder both the Chinese and the Japanese were able to lord over you guys lmao! Not willing to risk your necks for anything. xD
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@overworlder Unlikely. Taiwan itself is in less of a hurry to declare independence than the spoiled Americans thousands of kilometres away are. Check the surveys - only about 5% of the public are in favor of declaring independence as soon as possible. Why? Sure a lot of them are not fond of China, but they know the cost of war. They can't retreat to safety like America can (and did again just recently). They have to stay and deal with the mess, unlike America. Americans are more in favor of Taiwanese independence than the Taiwanese themselves simply because America knows nothing about the horrors of war and never has to deal with the consequences of its actions, leaving that for the local population to sort through.
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@overworlder Lol. Can't argue with facts so you have to fall back on ad hominems. ;) Ironically, my country knows the cost of war too, including with China who we've already fought before. Unlike the spoiled Americans who we couldn't rely on for anything, who worked with our enemy just cos it served their ends - and then said enemy helped their enemy to humiliate them in Afghanistan lmao! That's America for you. Don't worry about my family btw - not only does my country indeed have freedom of movement, but we've also handled Covid better than America (as has pretty much everyone else) so those restrictions don't prevent me from seeing them whenever I want either. I wonder if you can say the same.
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@Robert McMahon How many Muslim Uyghurs have died? Now how many Muslims have died in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hint: A LOT more. How many Uyghurs are in prison? Now how many Americans are in prison. Hint: A LOT more. And despite that America has a quarter of China's population as well...
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@singhatar0912 The strongest military that lost to a bunch of guerrillas - TWICE! xD And couldn't even stage an effective guerrilla campaign themselves either. :p We have a better military track record than you, even though we aren't the strongest military lol!
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@peterboyle4958 I didn't say anything about how difficult Taiwan would be to conquer, because that's mostly American rhetoric anyway. Only around 5% of the Taiwanese public wishes to declare independence asap, cos unlike America they actually have to deal with the consequences. So understandably they're more circumspect. Hilariously it's actually Americans who're more keen on Taiwanese independence, cos it serves their interests and as usual they never have to face the consequences of anything. No, this isn't about Taiwan, this is between China and the US. Taiwan is just a convenient excuse for the US to pursue its agenda. Hell, they didn't even care about it until after the Korean War, and btw back then it was a dictatorship itself. So what matters is not how well Taiwan can stand up to a Chinese occupation, but how well the US can fight China in their own backyard - and how many losses it'll be before they once more lose all the fight in them to do so.
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@zurie35 Lol. Surveys show who the rest of the world hates most, and it ain't China. Go ahead. Google 'greatest threat to world peace' and look who comes out top. Also look up Russian public perception of China - and be sorely disappointed.
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@zurie35 No, you're looking at limited info. The surveys you're quoting are almost definitely not global, but probably either OECD or regional. And sure anti-China sentiment is higher, but that's not saying much. Which country is seen as the greatest threat to world peace? Just cos people like China less now doesn't mean they're the worst performer. China had detractors in that survey too, but the US was over 4 times its figure. Cos it's the US that's been to war all over the place, not China. "And morons like you on the internet don't make [America] look any better you just make the country look weak and fragile. Unable to handle criticism or the truth."
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@zurie35 Lmao! You're so self-absorbed with your own moral supremacy that you can't even imagine someone not Chinese (or Russian) dissing the US. No century of humiliation for me, but if I recall you guys were just humiliated last month lol! And I've literally seen your ilk not being willing to handle the truth about it - not admitting loss in Afghanistan, hell some of them even denied Vietnam was a loss. Pathetic!
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@zurie35 Fyi, my country actually has a great military track record. We've even fought the Chinese, to a draw! And won all our other wars, including successfully creating a new country in one of them (though I wonder if a self-absorbed American like you can even work out which country this is). Which is a way better record than you spoiled westerners, who just failed at that even after 20 years!
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@zurie35 It's better than losing to a bunch of guerillas - repeatedly lmao! And while American domestic debates are amusing, it still manages to fight a lot abroad.
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