Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan

zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m gonna be really honest with you. That was a shit analogy.

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  • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The premise was that there really isn’t a historical equivalent. The analogy being shit is kind of the point.

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• jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nope. Not even close. Imagine if the Union lost and was held up in Hawaii and the Confederacy was trying to take over the island.

  The original China lost the civil war.

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  • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like I said, hard to find a historical equivalent. Like which side would you compare the execution of landlords? The north paid the slavers restitutions instead.

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  • alykanas@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or just imagine the annexation of Hawaii by the USA . Which they did .

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    • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is a much better example. I will borrow this for the future. Thank you.

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    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean it’d be more like if the confederate government ran away to Hawaii, then spent decades terrorizing/genocide the locals/anyone left of Nathan Bedford Forrest, while Russia gave them a bunch of weapons and ships and put military bases in Canada, Mexico, and Cuba.

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      • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Except it’s not. The original China government was not the ones who started the civil war.

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