The US Defense Department’s grand strategy for protecting Taiwan from a massive Chinese military offensive involves flooding the zone with thousands of drones.
  • @zbyte64
    8•22 days ago

    That would be dumb. Taiwan is a better asset if they have an independent government that’s on the same page geopolitically. Australia bucked the USA’s geopolitical agenda, and they got couped.

    • @exanime@lemmy.world
      3•22 days ago

      That would be dumb. Taiwan is a better asset if they have an independent government that’s on the same page geopolitically

      Which is why the US wants to “defend democracy” there, that is clearly what I mean… they want a Taiwan that is subservient to the USA, not an independent Taiwan that would actually be independent

      Australia bucked the USA’s geopolitical agenda

      I don’t understand what “bucked” means in this context

      • @zbyte64
        3•22 days ago

        In this context the Australian people voted for an administration that would no longer “co-operate” with the USA’s geopolitical aims, they “bucked”/rejected the agenda. The USA responded by pressing those in power to create a constitutional crisis and replace the administration.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis

        I guess my point is that America doesn’t engage in the same tactics as China does in regards to Taiwan, or that hemisphere, probably because of distance. The USA favors regime change over making a new colony.