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Peter Boghossian's avatar

Good comments here. It seems to be a universal truth that giving up your nukes makes you a target—and getting them is a safety guarantee.

Also, nukes do not need to be launched. They can be smuggled into a country and then detonated at a time of choosing.

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Col Edward H R Green's avatar

Taiwan as a 51st state??? NO! Absolutely not! Not only because that would bring the US closer to a war with China--which I predict the CCP will initiate in 2049, the 100th anniversary of the CCP-- but also because that would inevitably mean that it would be like Puerto Rico and all other US territories in that its citizens and economy would receive incessant billions of $ each year in the form of welfare schemes, loans, grants, and bailouts all funded via tax-thievery (legalized theft, but theft nonetheless) perpetrated by US federal and state governments against US citizens and their earnings and other personal wealth. NO tax-theft funded "aid" and weaponry to Taiwan, or any other country! Leave the Taiwanese to fend for themselves, and defend themselves against China, which they are doing quite well. It is NOT our problem! It is not our conflict!

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