• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Why does America care what Taiwan does? It belongs to China by International agreement. As far as I now it was never US territory. It was a part of China under the Quing Dynasty until the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Not the USA

I'm not going to war for it, but I certainly care. Who cares about "international agreements"? Just as with Hong Kong, I don't want anyone to fall under the grasp of Xi. He's a vicious dictator who'll disappear anyone who dares disagree with his regime.

Unlike Ukraine, we have a serious national interest in Taiwan. They make 2/3rds of the world's semiconductors, most of the world's high-end semiconductors. It will be years before we could make the chips we need. Further empowerment of Xi is one of the worst things that can happen. He and his regime are just as evil as the western oligarchs we talk about here daily.
 
I'm not going to war for it, but I certainly care. Who cares about "international agreements"? Just as with Hong Kong, I don't want anyone to fall under the grasp of Xi. He's a vicious dictator who'll disappear anyone who dares disagree with his regime.

Unlike Ukraine, we have a serious national interest in Taiwan. They make 2/3rds of the world's semiconductors, most of the world's high-end semiconductors. It will be years before we could make the chips we need. Further empowerment of Xi is one of the worst things that can happen. He and his regime are just as evil as the western oligarchs we talk about here daily.
Does USA own Taiwan? Or is it like USA has a national interest in Syria's oil so we can just steal their oil now?

See were I am going with this? What happened to business deals and trade.
 
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