Taiwan, an island of only 24 million, is no different than the Greek city-states that were raped, razed, and removed from the history books.
Entire cultures, languages, identities were eradicated by the victors.
Like Taiwan, those inside the city walls always said the same thing.
These will sound familiar to foreigners living here trying to decipher Taiwan’s rich imagination of denialism:
“there would be a negotiated settlement”
“just a change in management”
“economic issues”
“they need us”
“the U.S. military will save Taiwan”
“organ harvesting is a conspiracy theory”
“they would never do the horrible things to us they have done to the Uyghurs or Tibetans; after all, we speak the same language”
Many Republicans pride themselves on their chess-playing acumen. Dems write a tax increase bill, GOP players write one that doesn't increase taxes, and say, "We'll just checkmate these revolutionaries and WIN this one." Sometimes they do. But Since the Goldwater days, they've been whipped 90 percent of the time. So they study chess tactics harder.
In next three years, the Dems are rolling out an army of tanks. First mission: roll over every chess board and destroy them, leaving the elephants to wander around aimlessly, not knowing how to do politics.
How do we know this? Zoom calls over the last year. The Dems are done with chess.
Kunstler: "Democratic Party election ninja Marc Elias knocked himself out for two years registering new voters by the bale, as in manufacturing them. . . illegal aliens. . . homeless junkies. . . straight-up fictitious persons. . . in order to flood the zone with fake mail-in ballots, that is, in-your-face fraud. And the reason they did it was so ...
"No man is big enough to run this great Republic. There never has been one. Such domination was never intended. Tranquillity, stability, dependability—all are assured in party sponsorship. and we mean to renew the assurances which were rended in the cataclysmal war.”
Warren Harding, July 1920.