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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”
- Wendell Minnick from Taipei
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...
