Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The 4 Lessons Taiwan Must Learn from Ukraine - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. Ukraine is still holding, and it doesn’t even have direct warfighter involvement from its supporters. The PLA though has yet to prove its competency treating combat injuries and battle damage from an opponent who actually shoots back. And unlike Mainlanders, Taiwanese are much more proactive to support each other and take up arms without government direction.
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  2. That’s the ideal. But as the PLA continues to plus up its capabilities, Taipei must improve its overall counterforce to match.
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  3. Blockades are legally considered a full act of war, and may be reacted to accordingly by Taipei’s allies. Plus the PLAN hold on the Pacific side will be tenuous at best since they’ll be on the opposite end of Taiwan who will resist any missions to support the vessels out there, especially since the eastern half of the island is where all the defensible mountains are.
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  4. Defeating an invader means just surviving, which is a much easier objective. The US has multiple decades of experience on the wrong end of booby traps and ambushes in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and are nowadays teaching the Taiwanese on how to politically defeat a similarly well equipped occupier.
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  5. Beijing destroyed all its negotiating leverage with HK. It’ll take a couple generations until the Taiwanese might be open to considering converging with the Communists again.
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