My fave part is the section of the bill that exempts it from FOIA requests…democracy…

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    Yeah us tankies hate it when the imperial core pisses off the rest of the world and unites them into a de facto anti-imperialist bloc. Noooo don’t do that!

    Do these gloating warmonger idiots even for a second stop to think if their glorious empire could take on China, Iran and Russia simultaneously? This is a war they could never hope to win yet they are eagerly cheerleading it on. Literal death drive.

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      The US would have no chance. Russia alone can outproduce all of the imperial west in artillery shells by multiples. China has immense industrial capacity and a naval shipbuilding capacity that far exceeds anywhere else in the world. Both countries have access to fleet-ruining hypersonic missiles.

      If China decides to reassert its sovereignty over Taiwan, the choice will be let China do it and do business with them as normal or blow up the entire world economy for years if not decades. The loss of shareholder value will be so massive in the latter that I’d have to assume the US would just let it happen.

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        The loss of shareholder value will be so massive in the latter that I’d have to assume the US would just let it happen.

        In my view because of this a proper WW3 won’t happen soon, no one with enough money to pull the strings wants to risk it. Plenty of money for more proxy wars and economic espionage though.