Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "WHAT IS NANCY PELOSI DOING?!?!?!?!?!?" video.

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@arlaux1099 I personally think that if Taiwan pledged not to be a part of the US' sphere of influence, and Japan kicked all US military infrastructure out of the Senkaku islands, the tensions would cease. Of course you don't understand what it feels like to be surrounded by an empire's vassals, the only time anything close happened you threatened to nuke the whole world over it
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@Dave102693 (unless you replied to the first comment) Well that's fucked up. After you go talk to the Taiwanese, charter a flight to Yemen and ask them how they feel about the US retaining its current level of geopolitical power. Or Libyans, or Iraqis, or the Afghanis-- the ones who haven't starved to death yet from sanctions on foodstuffs.
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@drpolarbeer different how? You're arguing that a state, however imperialistic or a vassal to an empire, should be upheld if it has more rights for its own citizens. Seems like both examples fall along the same lines. The only difference I can see is that Taiwan isn't militarily occupying China. But, do you really think that's because they don't want to? They still officially claim all of it plus some of Russia and Mongolia, and nationalists in the past have shown no hesitation to mass murder socialists rebelling against whatever gutting market reforms they put into place
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ultimately, this is not about human rights or war... it is about the US preventing large Eurasian states from having access to the world's ocean. That has been the unspoken strategy from day 1. Britain saw itself as the separate island of the coast of Europe, meant to keep any single European power from getting too strong and threatening its own interests. America sees itself in the exact same way, but on a larger scale. Europe will often see itself in a similar way, for example the huge coalition that formed against Russia to stop it from getting access to the Mediterranean by defeating the Ottoman Empire.
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@boxybrown6900 hey state department guy, update your vocabulary, it isnt 1950s anymore
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The question you may need to ask yourself is, is the freedom of a few million people worth the continued hegemony of an imperial power? So long as the US feels comfortable doing whatever it wants, containing Russia and China to land, it will keep abusing its own power. It needs to be stopped, soon
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@redsun7223 Trying to contain China. Ultimately, their reasoning from being aggressive (in South China Sea + Taiwan) is because of American imperialism. They are acting pro-actively, specifically in anticipation of the US finding an excuse to hamper their economic development or blockade them. Blockade them how? Through either Taiwan + Japan, or through Indonesia's Malacca Straits. The US has shown a willingness in the past to attack countries on false pretenses if they threaten their economic dominance. Frankly, if China already had Taiwan (or, for sake of argument, another island not blockable by a US ally) they'd probably have no reason to be aggressive. The US simply doesn't have that issue, because its only worry is Cuba, and otherwise it is surrounded by open ocean
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