• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      The US is paying because it needs Taiwan. If Taiwan didn’t have value for the US, it would have been overrun by China a decade ago

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        israel and ukraine as well. it’s no coincidence that right next to a powerful country (or, in israel’s case, a bloc of countries) that the US is unfriendly with there is a client state whose entire existence depends on Western funding.

    • UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de
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      The bulk of the US economy is based on taking money from working people and then consolidating it to billionaires that run defense corporations. So “paying for” it’s basically just an engine for making rich Americans more rich.

    • Roboticide@lemmy.world
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      If China invades Taiwan our entire economy will come to a screeching halt. Hence why America is interested.

      If China wanted to invade, idk, Thailand, we’d just kind of shrug and say “Hey, don’t do that.”