America is using its own money to send weapons to a place it officially doesn't recognise.
  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years 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.