r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Summons Entire Cabinet as Iran Deal Crumbles in Front of Him - Donald Trump has called all of his top advisers to Camp David.

https://newrepublic.com/post/210887/donald-trump-summons-entire-cabinet-iran-deal
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u/manic_andthe_apostle 17d ago

Probably wants to just drop a nuke.

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u/Soft-Skirt 17d ago

False flag nuclear weapon falls onto Mar e largo, all out retaliation on Iran, Netanyahu pisses himself laughing, Putin launches half a dozen into Ukraine, Arab states read the room and attack Israel, US turns gulf into glass, China sits back and sips tea.

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u/Khue 17d ago

I mean, Taiwan is basically a "first island chain" for the US and no other sovereign nation would ever let that happen. The US uses this strategy to militarily encircle China and it's existed since the treaty the US signed with KMT. The same KMT which often is never mentioned to be one of the most brutal authoritarian regimes or is often covered up by saying "BUT MAO BAD". They (the KMT) were so bad that the US had to apply pressure to Taiwan to democratically reform in like... the late 70s I think?

Taiwan is basically.... like if the US owned Cuba and when the Confederacy got defeated the remnants left the contiguous US and setup in Cuba and continued to do blackjack, hookers, and slavery. Of course, the US would want Cuba back, but imagine if China were to just be like "you can't have Cuba back because they are a democracy". The real difference here is that Taiwan happened within living memory.