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'Cheney stokes GOP rift with 'big lie' rebuke of Trump'
“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” the Wyoming Republican wrote.'
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...op-feud-485215
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise."
Hitler’s Control of the Masses, Mein Kampf
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Guno צְבִי (05-03-2021)
The US and USSR were both willing to launch their nukes in order to protect themselves and their allies. We would have launched nukes to protect West Germany. They would have launched nukes to protect East Germany.
The reason why it never happened was not because of an unwillingness to launch. It was because both sides restrained from actions that would provoke such a launch.
Both the US and China are willing to launch nuclear weapons over Taiwan.
Hopefully both sides will restrain from actions that will provoke the other side into launching.
First, as I've posted before, the Chinese are in for the long game. Nuclear war is a loser for them and they want to win even if it takes another 50-100 years. The US, OTOH, is a culture of immediate gratification. As a nation, compared to China, we often fail the Marshmallow Test.
The Chinese will certainly push as hard as they can, but if they are "threatening" an invasion of Taiwan, it's only to sucker the US into seeking peace by "compromising" and giving China free rein in the South China Sea.
It's Hardball Negotiation 101: demand something completely ridiculous (in this case Taiwan) and settle for what you want (in this case the undersea resources of the South China Sea). Because the US tends to flunk the Marshmallow Test, and because we elect a new government every four years, US leaders will give China the South China Sea and declare victory at averting nuclear war and saving Taiwan.
The Chinese will be happy to exploit the resources of the South China Sea and put off acquiring Taiwan to later in the 21st century without war.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Sure we will, but it's under the sea that the Chinese are most interested in exploiting along with the obvious extending their control over what they consider to be a Chinese Lake.
The fucking Russians still do it with the Black Sea. Does anyone really believe the fucking Russians and the US will start WWIII over the Black Sea?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...ack-sea-184241
Would Russia Attack the U.S. Navy in the Black Sea?
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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