TaiwanIsNotChina comments

BurgerlandToday 03:07 pm JST

Seems the US/ world will be in much better hands a few weeks from now.

I will wait for the verdict of an American on that, rather than an enemy of America.

bass4funkToday 02:10 pm JST

Pelosi and Schumer are still there smiling at ya.

Yes, they are so far in the backseat, they can't even see me.

Hardly. They are the ones ensuring you pass no laws without their approval.

HopeSpringsEternalToday 02:03 pm JST

Bidens legacy is in tatters, latest polling has him at 35% and that was BEFORE this Hunter pardon saga!

Never recovered from failed Afghanistan exit in Aug. 2021

That's because they haven't seen the Ukraine exit of Aug. 2025.

deanzaZZRToday 03:19 pm JST

China is despised in Asia for its belligerence and coercion. 

SE Asia says otherwise. But then again, Australia has never truly embraced its Asian neighbors.

Majority in Southeast Asia would choose China over US, survey suggests

Survey by Singapore-based think tank points to Beijing’s growing influence in the region.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/4/majority-in-southeast-asia-would-choose-china-over-us-survey-suggests

Your own article says 2/3rd fear China. Oh dear.

ZaphodToday 11:13 am JST

Ethnic Russian children to boot. Apparently this ridiculous court believes they should be handed to the Zelenski government.

Ethnic russian because Putin says so? Absolutely if their closest relatives are in Free Ukraine, they should go to Free Ukraine.

Russia's attempts to annex it's neighbors is quite clear and from their own words.

I have not seen any words from the Russian government claiming anything like this. Maybe you can tell us where you get this profound insight from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_annexation_of_Donetsk,_Kherson,_Luhansk_and_Zaporizhzhia_oblasts#Annexation_proceedings_and_borders

It was right there on the thing Putin signed.

Desert TortoiseToday 10:00 am JST

Russia can't handle the obvious truth that it is a war criming country.

Neither apparently can the US and Israel.

You might have a point when a US president is actually indicted for something.

JJEDec. 3 05:51 pm JST

Oh, but it does.

Besides, any decent settlement in former Ukraine, along with sensible border changes UN-recognized, will include a clause invalidating such politically motivated ICC warrants.

Oh now you have demands for the ICC. And you wonder why no one ever returns your calls.

TokyoLivingToday 10:30 am JST

China does not fear the world pirates..

Now let's sink some Filipino ships, amirite?

bass4funkToday 09:05 am JST

Again, can’t wait until we don’t have to hear from these people ever again.

Pelosi and Schumer are still there smiling at ya.

BurgerlandToday 08:58 am JST

"Not really. The fascist succeeding him..."..blah blah..."

Awesome, just keep up the fascist nonsense for another 4 years could ya? Your team lost the election because of it and will loose the next one too as long as their mouthpieces keep it going.

I realize it doesn't effect you as a non-American but we have to be watchful here about whether there will be troops in the streets. If not, we are all good.

FizzBitToday 08:31 am JST

Attacking their citizens with water cannon and tear gas.

Ukraine did much the same in the Donbass, except they used artillery and bullets.

Could it be there were little green men giving as good as they got?

BlacklabelToday 09:25 am JST

Half price again?

Yes, they were half price in the 90s probably.

so finally an admission that ty things doubled under the last 4 years regime?

Not doubled, but the low information voter will believe anything.

I would be happy to go back to the Trump pre COVID prices with a reasonable cost of living matching increase.

So would everybody but you have selected someone who couldn't make a casino profitable to make it happen.

DaisakuToday  08:03 am JST

The Democratic Party will need to conduct a deep soul search over the coming two years, leading up to the mid-terms. What went wrong with the elections, and what changes are needed?

People thought Failed Businessman would make everything half price again. That's it, really.

JJEToday  07:48 am JST

Maps change frequently.

And always giving goodies to offenders like russia. Funny how that works.

The Serbia-Kosovo model is a good example and one that is prime to be applied here.

Kosovo's independence was effectively endorsed by Moscow. No one will endorse the theft of anything from Ukraine.

Moscow has made it clear there will no frozen conflict or a silly Minsk-style unconditional ceasefire for Kyiv to brazenly violate again like they did last time.

You're right, there will be NATO guarantees for Free Ukraine to ensure russia doesn't violate a ceasefire.

It has to be sorted out in totality, including with wider security architecture affecting Moscow taken into account. This is when the conflict may stop and not a second before.

While I can't predict what Trump will do, no sane US president would give anything to Moscow.

No, neutrality means neutral, like a true neutral. No NATO. Nothing heavier than a spud gun.

Sounds like a solid plan to impose on russia.

Lviv could possibly serve as capital of a west Ukraine buffer-rump neutralist state. Very realistic idea as long as it is demilitarized and denazified.

You don't have the bodies lined up to spend on your shopping list.

No, Moscow is a UN security council member many times larger size/pop with the biggest arsenal, space program, global capable fleet, strategic bombers etc with defense commitments to other countries - so that is a completely unreasonable and unrealistic prospect.

Armenia knows how good russian security guarantees are so russia will not be missed from the international scene.

Kyiv isn't but will be permitted a border patrol/customs force with small arms. This is for their own safety. Once the new border is demarcated, they have nothing to worry about because NATO won't cross their border.

Once again, demands are made without the appropriate bodies in the bank account.

JJEToday  07:52 am JST

No one has ever heinously attacked them, except this foreign financed rent-a-mob, launching missiles at the police.

The question will be whether a million men, artillery shells and glide bombs will appear from the native industry of South Ossetia. Some will claim we should be fooled by this.

bass4funkToday  08:13 am JST

now if they pursue state charges on Hunter he won’t be able to take the 5th now. 

Do you think Hunter has committed some crime in a flyover state? I mean you might be right that the Banana Supreme Court may say that Texas can enforce federal law.

falseflagsteveToday  08:16 am JST

An outrageous act of lunacy by Biden further tarnishing his already poor reputation .

His reputation is excellent among those that understand the real limitations of US power.

The only way Georgia can go down the "gurgler" is if it is heinously attacked.

JJEToday  07:12 am JST

More Russian subjects have been killed in terrorist attacks in Ukraine, than US citizens in Syria (having trouble actually finding any).

Yeah because you relabled every Ukrainian in the east a russian. Actual russians shouldn't even be in Ukraine.

There are alternatives to almost anything.

JJEToday  07:24 am JST

Ukraine is the traditional land invasion route into European Russia. It will never ever be NATO occupied, nor will Sevastopol have any offensive vessels drop anchor.

No security for russia without security for Ukraine.

If Ukraine stayed neutral, no problem, but outside quarters just couldn't help themselves.

You mean if they remained russian puppets.

Zelensky and other quarters need to come to terms with the absolute reality Crimea and Donbass are gone and never ever coming back.

They are. It is called an unconditional ceasefire. The difference is russia will never get a gold star for its animal behavior. Also you tell us Ukraine's eastern border is at Lviv.

The faster this sinks in, the sooner people might take him half seriously and we can all get the new map done for the printing presses.

There will never be a new map authorizing savagery.

In a social media post, the president-elect himself called the pardon “such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice.”

"Now let me tell you about my plans to put in-laws in top positions and eliminate the Justice Department"

Not really. The fascist succeeding him will make Biden look like George Washington.

JJEToday  07:01 am JST

On top of that, the 2014 civil war was millions of people in the south-east, who protested the coup and nasty policies that followed, so to blame it in Russia is a bit rich: bit like a foreign car thief blaming an innocent local bystander for intervening.

The little green men did exist and are responsible for the disgusting situation in occupied Ukraine.

Under the international agreement signed in the Hungarian capital 30 years ago, Ukraine agreed to give up its Soviet-era atomic weapons, which amounted to the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, in return for security guarantees from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom.

This is only half of the story: Budapest Memorandum was violated by relentless NATO expansion towards the Russian Federation. Can't trash a memorandum by abusing the agreed security architecture and expect it to fly. The other part of the story is the 2014 coup all but invalidated the memorandum, as it's important to observe any theoretical agreement was with a decent, elected, neutral, legitimate, constitutional government (I.E. from 91 to early 2014).

The Budapest Memorandum says nothing about NATO or when treaties are invalidated at russian whims. Apologists will have to try harder with that one and the other three agreements violated by russia.

Also, Budapest was about non-proliferation, as Ukraine had a reputation for black market arms dealing (they controversially and illegally supplied cruise missiles to a certain country about 20 years back, in contravention of sanctions).

Ukraine has never been given the opportunity to do better than proliferator russia.

We have to hear what the stable genius coming in on January 20th has planned before anything can be decided about NATO.

The sooner we can be rid of irresponsible social media the better.

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said that he’s spent a lot of time reflecting, and “I don’t think anyone can claim this was a policy election,” and Democrats need to look at cultural issues. 

Actual swing state senators say otherwise.

Makes sense as Schumer has done well over the years. The strategy is to fight from day one and be ready with the fire extinguishers should we make it to 2028 as a democracy.

jibToday  06:34 am JST

Schumer was besties with Trump until Trump became a Republican.

You mean before Trump became a national security threat.

JJEToday  06:45 am JST

These are illegal invasion-war-of-aggression occupation troops there without a valid UN permit. That makes Russian actions in Ukraine perfectly legitimate.

Not a war of aggression because Syria hosts actual terrorists and there has been no attempt to annex anything to the US. russia remains searching for whataboutisms that compare to its animal behavior.