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Just say there is a new party that is aggressive and pushes economic populism while hands off on the cultural wars. This new party could have the bald eagle as its mascot, not a donkey or an elephant. Who the heck thinks of a donkey or an elephant while thinking about the United States 😂
-Cut taxes for the middle and working classes
-Legalize and regulate marijuana nationwide
-Protect Social Security
-Raise taxes on the Top 1%
-Make any elections a federal
-Improve the Healthcare system into the best Healthcare system in the world
-Give monthly checks out to all parents (More kids a couple has means more money)
-Give UBI to everyone monthly
-A four-day workweek
-End the wars and cut the military budget in half
-Stop spending money on other nations
-Give recently new parents paid maternity leave nationwide
-Give everyone paid leave yearly
-Punish Saudi Arabia and push for more renewable energy
-Cancel all student debt
-Improve the education system into the best education system worldwide
-Clean up the inner cities and turn them into the best cities worldwide
-Improve the infrastructure into the best infrastructure worldwide
-Clean up the waterways and air into the best worldwide
-Pass background checks and mental health exams on all new gun purchases

Not sure how would the Democrats and the Republicans would survive if this party actually existed

For me it's hard to say. I was talking about it with someone from China and they said that fear of getting their tech industry sanctioned was what made the CCP hesitant about invading Taiwan so now they have "nothing to lose" by doing so.

However, while sanctioning China from getting chips may have taken away America's economic leverage, from a military perspective, China has a lot more to lose now because now they would have to take a "brute force" approach to taking Taiwan. A brute force approach may work for a country like Ukraine, but I doubt it would work against Taiwan.

You could say that Russia is trying but failing to take a brute force approach to Ukraine but in reality Russia doesn't have the industrial base to brute force anything. They went in with a bunch of old Soviet equipment that keeps malfunctioning because it either had too many parts flogged off it or was rusted to shit because the soldiers stationed at the supply depot kept pencil whipping the maintenance reports. China however does have an industrial base and had it been them invading Ukraine and went in without high tech weapons, I'd say there's a 50/50 chance Kiev would have fallen by now.

But while China isn't Russia, Taiwan isn't Ukraine. Ukraine's border with Russia consists mostly of flat, open terrain while Taiwan is a Rugged Island with many defendable choke points and any invasion by China will see their forces funneled into these choke points, nullifying their numerical advantage.

The political significance of the 1991 Gulf War is debated but there was no doubt that it was a turning point in military history. That turn was away from the quantity over quality trend set by the industrial revolution (i. e. industrialized warfare) and it heralded the beginning of "mechanized warfare' where high tech precision weapons versus masses of tanks and warplanes win wars.

The idea seems beyond insane to me, but apparently a few people think he might...

Some Russian politicians want to take Alaska back

Could Russia try to conquer Alaska?