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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.

I did Part 1 and Part 2 here. Here's Part 3 cause I'm bored.

Anna Maria. Medium length black hair. Native American. Short (5'5"). Average-curvy build with D cups. Photographer. Is kind, sassy, and outgoing, but had a traumatic childhood, so can sometimes be moody. Very sweet if you're nice to her; your worst nightmare if you cross her.

Bianca. Long black hair. Medium-dark skin. Very short (5'3"). Thicc curvy body with DDD cups and a big butt. Grocery cashier and college student. Is silly, goofy, affectionate, and can be pretty funny, but also has low self-esteem and body image issues, and can be quite clingy.

Cynthia. Long wavy blonde hair. Pale light skin. Tall (5'9"). Athletic build with DD cups and a toned body. Marketing specialist manager. Is light-hearted, outdoorsy, loves farming, and has a light sense of humor, but not all that smart, and can be very stubborn.

Deandra. Long brown hair. Asian; light skin. Medium height (5'7"). Slender/slim build with a flat chest (A cups). Lawyer. Is Conservative, above-average in intelligence, and very pragmatic, but also has no sense or humor, and a bit serious most of the time.

Esmeralda. Wavy medium-length black hair. Hispanic; light skin. Very short (5'1"). Curvy build with C cups and a bouncy booty. Accounting college student. Calm, optimistic, artsy, and very girly, but also a bit fickle, superficial, and likes to be pampered often (from being girly).

Felicia. Long dark auburn hair. Pale skin. Extremely tall (6'5"). Full figured voluptuous body with huge G cups, wide hips, and a huge booty. Registered nurse and student. Warm, sweethearted, positive, affectionate, witty, intelligent, and loves cooking, but also very ambitious and has high standards for her career.

Gloria. Medium light-brown hair. Medium-light skin. Tall (5'11"). Medium build with B cups and toned arms. Sells used cars, but comes from a rich family. Stern, controlling, high maintenance, a feminist, hot headed, and judgmental, but upper middle-class.

Obesity is immoral for the food that is wasted, how it drives up health insurance premiums, how it normalises being unhealthy and of course how bad it it for the environment. Think about it an obese person eats maybe at least 4 times what a person at a healthy weight eats which means higher carbon emissions to both produce, transport and cook the food, then there's the extra weight and space they take up in aircraft, buses, trains, ferries. Even their own cars use more gas and need maintenance more often. Also of course obese people use more air-conditioned. They also require more fabric to cloth them. They also use more water and soap to wash.

We need to round them all up and concentrate them in special fat camps until they lose weight.