I do hope you read shortyoh’s answer to your question. Ask most people in South and Southeast Asia and they will tell you that we aren’t intervening nearly enough. There is great frustration over our perceived lack of support and abandonment. No one who knows anything about Taiwan can accuse us of being aggressive.
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One major difference, though, is that while China has unilaterally invaded other countries repeatedly without provocation, that is actually a relatively rare occurrence for the US.

Well, China invaded the Philippine’s exclusive economic zone in 1994 to take ownership of some of these islands.

They also picked a fight with Vietnam over some of these islands in 1988.

China invaded Vietnam in 1979, and their less than one month long war tallied up, by varying estimates, about 107,000 to 153,000…

Permaculture, in short, is not scientifically proven to be effective. Furthermore, even if it was it ignores the reality of modern human life, unless you want to start purging cities worth of people in a genocide, it can’t provide enough food to feed the planet.

Thank you for that, Bulldog. I’m risking permanent relegation to the Greys with this confession, so - ssssh! Nixon was actually one of my favorite presidents, chiefly for the foreign policy/detente reasons you cited; however he also oversaw formation of both the Environmental Protection Agency & Marine Mammal…

Not necessarily. Since it’s essentially a testbed, they could fit all sorts of electronics in the avionics bays to test out any number of capabilities over time. Short spiral development, coupled with integration with the fleet via LINK and NIFC-CA, would allow for a nice test of the X-47B’s ability to share data,…

Because it's basically a golden opportunity. One of the most popular television programs on the planet has basically been axed, leaving a huge vacuum. Netflix has the cash and can simply poach the talent that's jumping ship.

Netflix world wide subscriptions are going to surge in 8 months.

Netflix execs are so hard right now.

This is the result if you don't like your top talent and don't want him to return. This is known as, "cutting off your nose to spite your face."

The best part about TG was its film crew. TG has some of the most perfectly and beautiful cinematography you can find on tv, and who's landscape shots quite surpass anything you've seen on national geographic, the car shots better than any action film or dealer press releases. That sucked me more into it than the…

I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve heard this, from men and women, young and old: “I’m not into cars, but I love Top Gear.” If it didn’t serve as a gateway drug for cars, it at least helped the normals understand us enthusiasts a little bit.

I wanna say, and this is all obviously rampantly speculative:

If China were to dump US bonds today, it would destroy China. Yes there would be a serious economic impact in the U.S. and would require all Americans to tighten their belts for a long time, possibly years. But China would lose their single biggest goods purchaser (plus any allies for can convince/strongarm to follow…

Haha no they aren't. Not even close. They're still a long ways from matching the US military in ANY situation, that isn't in China itself. The only reason they can do it in China is due to raw numbers. Ever heard of human wave, or "banzai" charges?

The TU-95 is actually pretty fast. Cruise speed of about 400 knots.

Have to give credit to Boeing. They have the air frame of the B52 still in common service and the B29(albeit heavily modified) still in service in the form of the Tu 95.