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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Lol I remember in 2020 Taiwan bought 4 MQ-9 Reaper drones for $600 million (money up front of course, they will be actually delivered in 2025 - will they even still be around at that time?). Then, when Russia shot down (or better "pissed down") another MQ-9 drone over the Black sea, which Western news decried as pricey as 30 million...

Some Taiwanese did some quic maffs then... to discover... Lmao US friends get US friends prices I guess

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Cold War Strategy. The West is yanking the economic rug out from under the CCP while forcing them to spend ever greater sums on their Military. They will eventually either implode from the external pressure or explode into War trying to beat it back.

It worked on the USSR and it will probably work on the CCP.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gosh I just can't believe it I am simply blown away

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