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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/world/europe/russia-ukraine-nato-stoltenberg.html
Full blown war with NATO (Stoltenberg).
I’ve never known this type of global sabre rattling before. It’s every day and worldwide. Now they are telling the population as a whole to get ready.
They might start compelling us to do drills, etc., like the Koreans have to do.
They could still admit western Ukraine to NATO if partition follows and it becomes a separate country.
Sweden and the draft, preparing for war.
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/ncb-us-test-fires-unnecessary-costly-100b/amp/
Certainly pouring the money in for weapons they don’t intend, as you say, to ever use!
Corbyn writes in The Jacobin:
Taiwan was never viewed by Chinese Imperial governments as belonging to them until the Ch’ing (Manchu) government seized the island from Ming rebels in the mid-17th century. The Ming govt. was happy to let the Dutch East India Company use Taiwan for a trading base since it wasn’t considered Chinese territory anyway, whereas the Pescadores were.
This map may surprise many British readers.
On the left, the black border dashes separate minute islands from mainland China. These tiny islands actually belong to Taiwan.
Also, in the middle of the strait, we see the Pescadore Islands, also belonging to Taiwan. South East of Taiwan there is Orchid Island, the only island still inhabited by the native Formosans.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid_Island#/media/File%3ATaiwan_relief_location_map.jpg
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