TheAltWorld Washington Preps Taiwan to be Asia’s “Ukraine”
Washington’s Shifting Taiwan Policy Aims for an Asian “Ukraine”
1. Taiwan is to China as Ukraine is to Russia, in other words the US seeks to wage a proxy conflict through the breakaway island province in the same way the US is waging war with Russia through Ukrainian forces;
2. Just as US training and arms sales to Ukraine has done absolutely nothing to “repel” Russia, US training and arms to Taiwan will not only not “repel” any military operation to reintegrate Taiwan fully, it will most likely only accelerate provocations toward such a military operation; Washington’s goal in both Ukraine and Taiwan is not to preserve the regimes administering either territory, but to create and use conflicts involving both territories as justification for isolating Russia and China;
3. The Western arms industry obviously is benefiting to the tune of billions regarding arms sales to not only to Ukraine and Taiwan, but also to nations as part of “preparing” for wider conflict between Europe and Russia as well as Indo-Pacific nations and China;
4. In both cases it is clear that the US is not underwriting security for either Ukraine or Taiwan as well as the regions both territories reside in, and instead, is the greatest threat to both regions and wider global peace, stability, and prosperity.
References:
New York Times – U.S. Presses Taiwan to Buy Weapons More Suited to Win Against China:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/us…
My Life Elsewhere – Size Comparison Between Ukraine and Taiwan:
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/count…).
Taiwan News – US State Department site deletes ‘Taiwan is part of China’:
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news…
US Department of State – US Relations With Taiwan (archived May 2021):
https://web.archive.org/web/202105120…
US Department of State – US Relations With Taiwan (May 2022):
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-w…
US Congressman Dan Crenshaw (Twitter) – Admits US is waging proxy war against Russia in Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/sta…
Voice of America – US Nearly Doubled Military Personnel Stationed in Taiwan This Year:
https://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-us…
RAND Corporation – War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable (2016):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand…
Harvard University’s Atlas of Economic Complexity – Taiwan 2019:
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore…
paul m
… an intersting take…
Clearly all powers – those rising, in decline or failing – have their own specific interests and characterisitics that make them more or less palatable to those that reside within them and without.
Im not a fan of any of them to be honst, and all engage in deep propaganda to opush their cause.
Beligerance isn’t desirable – balance and detente between them is.
That said, weakness will be expolited – history is littered with the ruins of those who fell to stronger adversaries.
Power politics and ruthlessness is the necessary expectation – peace, relative prosperity and freedom is the exception and not the rule.
Democracy is a recent phenomenon and perhpas nothing more than a tool to control the herd.
WE live in intersting times with massive hurdles directly ahead – anhialation of one and all is a very real prospect, and perversely may even be desired by the powerful elite.