Kept an eye on Democracy Now during the Dubya years so became quite familiar with them. More recently they've been taking outrageous Demovik positions - very Stickie-like - so a proper commie sect. Very similar to RTÉ really - closet Stalinist assholes.
One should remember that the CCP have instigated Maoist policies in Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolian. The Wuhan virus was also their invention (I initially thought that it was a ruse to apply police state measures in Hong Kong when it first came up - it corresponded with the protests there).
The great insult that Taiwan has made against the CCP is its successful example of a flourishing country with a living Chinese civilisational core. Development did not need to be imposed through desecration, death and dictatorship. This is what is intolerable about its existence to the Communist Regime.
DN is criticising America for supplying Taiwan with
defensive weapons. There is no suggestion that long range cruise missiles or the like are being sent. There is no indication that the Chinese mainland is under any danger of being impinged so, effectively, DN is objecting to obstacles being put in the way of a PLA invasion of a free country. It's a disgraceful position.
Here's an interview between Mearsheimer and Piers Morgan that discusses the three geopolitical flashpoints. Morgan is outclassed here and resorts to a below the belt subterfuge to try and extricate himself from a sticky situation on Ukraine but tips the hat to the Professor in the end. Mearsheimer has had no decent competition - there are points that could be made to complicate his positions but, since I largely concur, I'll not stick an oar in and pull against.
To add a little spice to the post - at the moment the Israeli action in Gaza is not genocide, it is more legitimately described as ethnic cleansing. It can be described as genocide when famine sets in and thousand begin to die from hunger. That will be the moment it transitions into mass killing.
The removal of support from UNRWA in response to the decision from the ICJ exactly corresponds with the ethnic cleansing project, along with the further constriction of aid during the detailed destruction of habital structures in the strip. The big question is if, despite all the humanist pieties, anything will be done about it on the international stage.
The Israelis will not stop, they will have to be stopped if ethnically cleansing isn't to be tacitly accepted back into the political toolkit. Bibi is compromised and is surviving week to week - as soon as the war ends, all his illusions about himself will come crashing down and he is a vain man who will buck and buck to evade this. If the conflict needs to proliferate to secure his position then actions will be taken to do this.
Hamas committed a deranged atrocity on October the 7th, and is an anathema, but the response was not to deal with this crime, the response was to take the opportunity to remove the Palestinians from the Gaza strip. The Israeli regime aren't the good guys, and neither is Hamas. Both are rogue actors and hazardous to international peace.
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