alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1678arrow-down114cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmit.online
arrow-up1664arrow-down1external-linkThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethwww.bbc.comalphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square194fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmit.online
minus-squarephoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down1·8 months agoThe US is paying because it needs Taiwan. If Taiwan didn’t have value for the US, it would have been overrun by China a decade ago
minus-squareAlien Nathan Edward@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·8 months agoisrael and ukraine as well. it’s no coincidence that right next to a powerful country (or, in israel’s case, a bloc of countries) that the US is unfriendly with there is a client state whose entire existence depends on Western funding.
The US is paying because it needs Taiwan. If Taiwan didn’t have value for the US, it would have been overrun by China a decade ago
israel and ukraine as well. it’s no coincidence that right next to a powerful country (or, in israel’s case, a bloc of countries) that the US is unfriendly with there is a client state whose entire existence depends on Western funding.