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A Thread: I’ve been seeing a large number of posts portraying the Chinese summit as an inevitable win, given the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This post will be a detailed account of precisely why that’s fantasy.

@LasagneWest @AuronMacintyre Every feel good sport’s movie got that one mf thanking God for the effort his TEAM put in.

@BarackO472 @AuronMacintyre Don’t forget The Blind Side 😆

Amazing how much of Hollywood is just porn for people who hate white Christians

@LasagneWest @AuronMacintyre They got my dad, Oscar Isaacs, to play Christ the redeemer. The absolute greed on display to ask for more than that is blasphemy in its own right.

@LasagneWest @AuronMacintyre A Dogs Purpose, for Christ’s sake, has a premise centered around spirituality. Like as the main premise. 😭 And the thing is, a lot of them are just bad. Like, yeah, I’d rather watch Sinners, or Dune, or a ranking of Star Wars super weapons on YouTube.

@CaptNDabbin22 @JShortyyyyy @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok Which, if you believe it’ll happen within the next century, and not the next five years, it’s ultimately not an issue. As opposed to defending Taiwan, we could simply invest in semiconductor production ourselves. But Xi’s eyeing the big ‘27 like a dog would a bone. Not a century

@CaptNDabbin22 @JShortyyyyy @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok That’s just too idealistic. A century? If you plan that far ahead, you trade tyranny of the masses for just downright tyranny. Decades to a century of volatile energy and electronic markets is simply unsustainable. You’d have mass protests disrupting plans, anyway.

Understand this is Xi effectively saying "We will become the unipolar world power" He is asking the US to surrender

@CaptNDabbin22 @JShortyyyyy @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok Which we, and our allies, all need to advance military production. In tandem with control over rare Earths, the World economy would center around China, not the U.S. More investment would go to China, not the U.S.

@CaptNDabbin22 @JShortyyyyy @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok But let’s presume China gets Taiwan diplomatically, nobody decides to defend Taiwan, not even themselves. Cool, China would still then have control over the majority of the World’s high-end semi conductors.

@CaptNDabbin22 @JShortyyyyy @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok You keep yapping about short sightedness when you yourself cannot see the ramifications of Chinese control over Taiwan. We would be dependent on them to supply our own damn military, lmfao.

@CaptNDabbin22 @JShortyyyyy @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok Which, in and of itself is problematic. The more we waste in Iran, the less we have for Taiwan. Imagine thinking that rearranging energy markets is essential but Chinese control over Taiwan is something we should make seamless, since it’ll likely happen anyways.

@CaptNDabbin22 @JShortyyyyy @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok If your idea of a stable system is requiring reliance on the CCP, then sure, this sure as shit will be stable. They already control rare Earth refineries, giving up Taiwan would give them control over semiconductor production. That would make the World economy China centric.

@CaptNDabbin22 @JShortyyyyy @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok You donut, lmfao. “Re-unification” was never inevitable. Defense of Taiwan used to be far more of a guarantee. China’s tech sector would face significant improvements if able to control Taiwanese semiconductor production. Which we NEED for military weapons and electronics.

@JShortyyyyy @CaptNDabbin22 @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok Tariffs against solely China, sure. Which I openly advocated for previously. This exact same report shows a potential 174,000 decrease the year after the second highest growing year on record. CHIPS and Science Act pulled a lot of weight.

@JShortyyyyy @CaptNDabbin22 @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok The only pressure that may exist, is pressure to move on Taiwan in this shortened pocket of U.S. vulnerability.

@JShortyyyyy @CaptNDabbin22 @JoshFL321 @jondipietronh @Timcast @grok There is no conceivable World in which China feels particularly threatened right now. Let alone when taken into consideration U.S. actions taken towards other allied states and the precedent set by our own wars engaged in.