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Biden says U.S. forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion

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15 pointsrntn10 comments

Apparently Xi says much the same that China would defend Texas when they declare independence from the United States.

See "Reciprocity".

Pretty sure we had made similar promises to Ukraine back in the 1990's; look how much that helped them when Russia first invaded and took Crimea.

I'm pretty sure that Biden has said something similar to this once already this year, and then the next day the "professionals" at the White House explained to the press that once again, the President had not said what everyone heard.

Last October: https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/10/gordon-chang-joe-bidens-...

We’re living in very dangerous times

We are not living dangerous times, we been living dangerous times and we still are, it's not one sided, both China and the US are problematic, he US sparks conflicts to assert their dominance and hegemony everywhere, and China try to fight back and increase their influence everywhere, why couldn't they do what the US is doing?

And Israel more locally with Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and soon with Iran

The only solution is the unification of the world

Luckily, that's happening, instead of 150+ countries, we now have 2 blocks, NATO and BRICKS

Luckily Europe only has 1 currency (with some exceptions), and will probably adopt digital EURODOLLAR, BRICS probably will go with a digital YUAN

Middle East is covered by Israelli effort, and South America will be led by Brazil probably, or maybe Argentina/Chile we'll see

Easier to unite 3-4 blocks than 150+ countries :)

Maybe a scenario for a movie!

Isn't NATO a military alliance while BRICS an economic one?

Not sure if this is an apple and orange comparison.

It is definitely NATO vs the nations of BRICS

Six months ago you could assume this to be true, but thanks to Russia BRICS pretty much exploded, pushing its most important countries, like Kazakhstan or China, away from Russia, for both political and economic reasons.

I disagree

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