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Not sure why you're downvoted. It's not like the west is doing well at following the promises and projections it planned in Paris to reduce its addiction to fossil fuels. Promises of something being done in the future are only useful or relevant when they actually occur. They are meaningless until then.

Something something let the invisible hand of the market decide.

The West really likes capitalism until they start losing at their own game. Truth is. They've always enjoyed stacking the deck of free trade in their own favor. "But China is subsidizing it's industry and cheating!". Uh, ok. So why can't the west just do that? Oh, because we literally have been subsidizing industries all over the place for forever. The west has just not ever had to actually compete with a trade power of equal power.

They liked living in a monopolar world of western control. Too bad. Sucks to suck. Losing at trade in the neoliberal economic world order that they setup to benefit themselves. Getting absolutely outplayed and now taking their ball home.

None of this has to do with "moral actions" or stopping Russia. They literally buy Russian gas like it's an addiction. This is literally all about the fact that the west is losing out to China's trade dominance throughout the world.

Well, explain in what what way my analogy was bull shit then. Because it's not perfect, but creating a hypothetical analogy based around America is sometimes the only way to get Westerners to understand something.

But, you, trying to equate the real bay of pigs invasion to an invasion of Taiwan that was dumb. It just showed you don't know the history of the Chinese civil war (the entire point of my analogy in the first place) or the history of Cuba.

But, go ahead. I'm waiting for you to explain why my hypothetical analogy is bull shit. I explained why yours was.

And you still haven't answered why you want the US involved with defending Taiwan. That really worked out well for Ukraine. Fighting for years so we could sell them weapons, get their men killed, and then abandon them once we found a new war to start.

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So a country halfway across the world supporting your "freedom" because they benefit from the manufacturing the country outputs is freedom. But a country that is your neighbor, like China, that has literally never invaded you and has normalized relations with you is "a threat". The Allie is a country that literally just abandoned an allie in Ukraine when it became unprofitable to support them.

How many times does the US need to abandon an allie like this for people to understand that being an Allie of the US is not beneficial to the "freedom" of that state.

Russia invading Ukraine is unjustifiable. IF China invaded Taiwan it would also be unjustifiable. But, do you really think the US policy of "fighting to the last Ukrainian" and then abandoning them was good for Ukraine?

There is no benefit that comes from being an Allie of the US. If Taiwan wants to remain out of conflicts it's best option is to distance itself from the US. The benefits only exist until the US decides it's no longer as profitable to their weapons manufacturers. Then shift their focus to somewhere else (Venezuela for example).

Your analogy is completely off. Cuba wasn't ever historically a part of the US. Did not participate in a civil war within the US.

I think you need to read up on your history before you try to make a "better analogy". I used the American civil war as an example because Americans seem to be completely ignorant to the fact that Taiwan exists as separate from mainland China because of a civil war.

Cuba literally liberated itself from a US supported dictatorship. The US did invade Cuba during the bay of pigs though. China has literally never even attacked Taiwan though. So, it's really not at all compareable. Taiwan exist today as separate from China because the losing side of a civil war retreated there.

China in the 1950s absolutely would have every right to invade Taiwan and overthrow the western supported dictatorship that existed there. It would literally be liberating it's own people.

The issue is that they didn't; the people there were forced for decades to live under a puppet dictatorship of the west due to US support.

But, again, we are in this situation in the first place because of US global interests. For some reason no one can answer why the best solution is not for the US to stop trying to control and maintain influence over countries half way across the world?

This makes me sad Grandma probably use to sew on non plastic absolute beast of an antique Singer sewing machine. Now she's got some crappy plastic one she probably hates ontop of the old table.

This table is actually an old sewing machine table that seems to be missing its extention (and drawers). The extension folds at the side when not in use and basically doubles the tables size when extended. Great table if you can install the extension.

Source: my mom inherited one of these tables from my great grandma. Absolutely gorgeous craftsman ship and functionality worth restoring and installing the original model of sewing machine. Nothing like them today.