I don't know who Tucker is interviewing here, but in this 2:21 clip he says something that has been percolating in the back of my mind:
There has been an alignment, the last 3 days, that all point to the fact that Trump is in all but name the next President. Elon and Bill Ackerman very publicly declare unthroated support for Trump. Trump basically tells Biden to give JFK USSS protection, and Biden agrees. Am I crazy? Am I really seeing this?
I'm going to watch the entire interview tomorrow, when it posts, as this looks like an interesting conversation.
Yeah, the only way I could see China taking Taiwan is through diplomatic means. Even if China wasn't a paper tiger, Taiwan is only worth taking with their industry intact.
Taiwan has artillery that can range to the Chinese coast and hit a major (aren't they all in China?) city. No assault is going to be without Chinese losses.
Taiwan has little to no chance of repelling a Chinese invasion, and we haven't done shit to help modernize them. They'd take losses, but they would eventually win.
Asians have built bridges grown from trees they shape over a hundred years.
Taiwan is going to return the China, but not after an amphibious assault. They'll just grow closer until one day the tree reaches back the mainland and they're one.